Types of Assistive Technology Links
| http://www.aph.org/ |
| AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND - The world's largest source for adapted educational and daily living products - since 1858. |
| http://www.cast.org |
| CAST is a nonprofit organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals, especially those with disabilities, through the research and development of innovative, technology-based educational resources and strategies. |
| http://www.lburkhart.com/links.htm |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD AND COMMUNICATION - Selected Links to Assistive Technology and Augmentative Communication Resources for Children with Disabilities |
| http://www.fape.org |
| FAPE – Families and Advocates Partnership for Education; The Families and Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE) project is a partnership that aims to improve the educational outcomes for children with disabilities. It links families, advocates, and self-advocates to information about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The project is designed to address the information needs of the 6 million families throughout the Country whose children with disabilities receive special education services. |
| http://www.pluk.org/AT1.html |
| FAMILY GUIDE TO ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY - Family Guide to Assistive Technology |
| http://www.ldresources.com |
| L.D. RESOURCES - LD Resources is a collection of 1032 entries on various aspects of learning disabilities with 892 comments from community members. Read more about this site. Learn how to use the site, leave feedback, and get help. |
| http://ncam.wgbh.org |
| NATIONAL CENTER OF ACCESSIBLE MEDIA - The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility dedicated to the issues of media and information technology for people with disabilities in their homes, schools, workplaces, and communities. NCAM's mission is: to expand access to present and future media for people with disabilities; to explore how existing access technologies may benefit other populations; to represent its constituents in industry, policy and legislative circles; and to provide access to educational and media technologies for special needs students. |
| http://www.nrrts.org |
| NRRTS is dedicated to ensuring the provision of high-quality Rehabilitation Technology and related services to people with disabilities. |
| http://www2.edc.org/fsc/ |
| FSC strengthens schools and school systems so that they foster learning and development for all students. Working with state and local education agencies across the country, including many major cities, the center provides technical assistance, designs intensive professional development programs that improve teaching and assessment, enhances the leadership capacity of district and school administrators, engages families in their children’s education, and assists with community-building efforts. Our areas of expertise include comprehensive school reform, middle-level education, literacy development, and tools and strategies to promote success for students with disabilities. |
| http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/index.html |
| TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES, DOE - The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology (OET) resides in the Office of the Secretary of Education. OET's core purpose is to maximize technology's contribution to improving education. OET develops national educational technology policy and implements that policy department-wide supporting the goals of No Child Left Behind and other initiatives. |
| http://lookingglass.org/index.php |
| THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (TLG) is a nationally recognized center that has pioneered research, training, and services for families in which a child, parent or grandparent has a disability or medical issue. TLG is a disability community based nonprofit organization, which emerged from the independent living movement, and was founded in 1982 in Berkeley, California. Our mission is "To create, demonstrate and encourage non-pathological and empowering resources and model early intervention services for families with disability issues in parent or child which integrate expertise derived from personal disability experience and disability culture." |
| http://www.ldonline.org/ |
| TOOLS FOR LIFE - Options Using Assistive Technology - LD OnLine is the leading website on learning disabilities, learning disorders and differences. Parents and teachers of learning disabled children will find authoritative guidance on attention deficit disorder, ADD / ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, reading difficulties, speech and related disorders. |
| http://trace.wisc.edu |
| TRUE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT - The Trace Research & Development Center is a part of the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founded in 1971, Trace has been a pioneer in the field of technology and disability. The Trace Center is currently working on ways to make standard information technologies and telecommunications systems more accessible and usable by people with disabilities. This work is primarily funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) (U.S. Department of Education. |
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