Visual handicaps
BrailleSurf: An HTML Browser for visually handicapped peopleBeing tested, but what a great idea!
Blindness Resource Center: service of New York Institute for Special Education* Marvelous links- also available with large print format. Lots of resources
American Council of the Blind Braille Forum, general info., helpful resources.
Web Server for the Visually Handicapped Links for local documents, electronic publications, FTP sites, disabilities world wide web sites, gophers, news groups and a huge number of links
Web Server for the Visually Handicapped Blind Related Links Technology, advocacy and training, employment, etc.
Webserver for the Visually Handicapped Resources and databases
IBM Voice of the World Wide WebSpoken Internet/Web access for and visually impaired users for Windows.
IBM Special Needs Systems Home Pagean easy to use software available to download to access the Internet for blind and visually impaired users.
Blindness Resource Center Site available in text, large print or frames. Has links to blind & deaf sites as well as others. Has access to "bobby" a web-based service that can help make web pages accessible to people with disabilities. I am definitely going to check that out.
Recording for The Blind & Dyslexic "The Nation's Education Library for People with Print Disabilities"Provides services/nonprofit organization
Royal National Institute for the Blind, United Kingdom
Special Education Technology British Columbia Provincial resource program to assist school districts in British Columbia to meet needs of students with physical disabilities and visual impairments.
Braille and Talking Book Library California State Library- visual disability or reading disability may qualify you for this service
Recording for The Blind & Dyslexic "The Nation's Education Library for People with Print Disabilities" Provides services/nonprofit organization
Blind Related Links Technology, advocacy and training, employment, etc.
Hearing handicaps
Northeast Technical Assistance Center*Designed to help post-secondary institutions improve educational access and enhance education opportunities for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Center on Deafness - Post-secondary education consortium University of Tennessee designed site to assist people in locating information related to post secondary education for students who are deaf and/or hard of hearing.
Other physical handicaps
Waisman Center's List of Web Sites Related to Cognitive and Developmental Disabilities *
March of Dimes: Birth Defects Site has good information.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Technical/medical info
Brain Tumor Resources LINKS TO: National Brain Tumor Foundation; Critical Trials in North America for Brain Tumors; Internet-Based Virtual Brain Tumor Clinical Trial; Brain Tumor Mailing List; Well Spouse Foundation; and more.
Cerebral Palsy Info Central
CallHome-Communication Aids for Language and Learning Service and research unit within University of Edinburgh
Address for a discussion forum Relating to Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury.
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National Aphasia Association
Homepage for the National Stroke Association The only national voluntary health care organization focusing 100 percent of its resources and attention on stroke prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, research and support for stroke survivors and their families.
Defusing a time bomb in the brain by Suzanne Kellogg
An excellent resource guide for stroke survivors is available from the NARIC.
When Aphasia Classification Systems Breakdown by Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Sc.D.
Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack
Doctor's Guide to Stroke Information on the Internet
Aphasia support groups
Crossing The Communication Bridge: Speech, Language And Brain Injury from the Brain Injury Association's seven part document online information about Treatment and Rehabilitation
Experience of living with chronic aphasia
Iowa Health book The NIDRR Traumatic Brain Injury Model System of Rehabilitation Care
Iowa Healthbook brain injury This gopher site is dedicated to providing information on and contains a good FAQ on traumatic brain injury as well as Strategies for Families & Caregivers by Judith A. Falconer.
Iowa Healthbook A growing repository of Frequently Asked Questions about brain injury In many languages.
Iowa Healthbook An excellent NARIC Resource Guide for People with Head Injuries and their Families
Health-Helperis Diane Roberts Stoler's site with links to Brain Injury, Concussion and Health Resources
American Foundation for the BlindOf course, an absolute great resource with many links.
National Federation of the BlindAgain mega link resources for the blind.
Dragon Systems, Inc.Commercial site of software products for speech recognition to let you communicate with your PC by speaking.
GW Micro, Inc. Has software product called Window-Eyes. Combined with Internet Explorer 5.X you can listen to the web. A Web reader.
Henter-Joyce, Inc. - Developers of JAWS and MAGic!JAWS for windows is a screen reader and MAGic Screen magnification software for the blind or visually impaired.
Links for Visually Impaired IndividualsNice collection of links.