Disability Information & ResourcesLinks to resources not directly related to employment. There are more in our Latino Resources List. |
This list is of resources that are not directly related to employment. They are divided into the following five categories:
More links related to Education, Health, Disability, and Community are listed in our Hispanic/Latino Community Information and Resources. Comprehensive Article Discussing Savings Strategies for Students with Disabilities There are many programs specifically designed to permit SSI recipients to save for post secondary education or training which prepares them for paid employment. This paper summarizes these provisions and provides information on additional resources individuals with disabilities may access to help cover the costs of education or vocational training after high school. The provisions covered include: Plans for Achieving Self-Support or PASS, Educational Savings Accounts or 529 Plans, Coverdell Accounts, Educational Assistance received under Title IV of the Higher Education Act such as PELL and Supplemental Educational Opportunities grants and federal work-study Individual Development Accounts (IDA), and assistance from State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies and One-Stop Career Centers.
American Bar Association CMPDL Law School Disability Programs Directory In order to provide the best available information to the legal community and lawyers, as well as law students and potential law students with disabilities, the American Bar Association Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law collects data from ABA-accredited law schools concerning their disability related programming. This includes: contact information for assisting students with disabilities, student organization(s) associated with disability law/rights or students with physical or mental disabilities, clinical program(s) associated with disability or mental health law or disability-related legal matters, and other relevant programs or information.
Bookshare™ is an online library of digital books for people with print disabilities. It operates under an exception to U.S. copyright law which allows copyrighted digital books to be made available to people with qualifying disabilities. In addition, many publishers and authors have volunteered to provide Bookshare with access to their works. Bookshare Members download books, textbooks and newspapers and then read the material using adaptive technology, typically software that reads the book aloud (text-to-speech) and/or displays the text of the book on a computer screen, or Braille access devices, such as refreshable Braille displays. Through an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), Bookshare offers free memberships to U.S. schools and qualifying U.S. students.
This website contains information about living college life with a disability. It’s designed for high school students and provides video clips, activities and additional resources that can help you get a head start in planning for college. Through several interviews, college students with disabilities provided key information for the site. These video clips offer a way for you to hear firsthand from students with disabilities who have been successful. The website is divided into three modules: "My Place," "Campus Life," y "Planning for College." Each module includes several activities that will help you to explore more about yourself, learn what to expect from college and equip you with important considerations and tasks to complete when planning for college. Share these with your parents, teachers and guidance counselor — you might just teach them a thing or two.
Postsecondary Rights & Responsibilities
Bilingual Booklets
Parent's Resource
Transition Planning Tool in Spanish
Documentary Video Available on the Special Education Experience The film contains scenes spoken in English and in Spanish. There are 2 tapes available: one has narration and subtitles when necessary in English (& closed captions), and one with narration and subtitles when necessary in Spanish.
Families and Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE)
Pathways to Outcomes – School Readiness & Family Economic Success This website holds a wealth of findings about what it takes to improve the lives of children and families living in America's tough neighborhoods. Community advocates, service providers, funders, and policymakers will find a broad collection of information about what works in social programs and policies to achieve desired results, including increased rates of children ready for school and higher numbers of economically successful families.
Diploma Options for Students with Disabilities
Fast Facts For Faculty - Tips for Instructors
Think College Website
Learning Disabilities Association The Disability Law Lowdown is a radio program that discusses different legal issues that affect people with disabilities. Program #35 talks about what high school students should expect when they go to college. It provides a lot of information about the differences between high school and college in terms of what reasonable accomodations they can get and how they need to go about getting them.
Blog about International Disability Rights Issues The "We Can Do" blog is for anyone who wants to end poverty and oppression for poor disabled people in developing countries. This blog is for people with and without disabilities: people in developing countries and in industrialized countries; people who grew up poor (or who are poor now), and people who grew up with all the food, water, clothing, education, health care, and other basic services that they needed. It talks about different resources, opportunities, and strategies available to people around the world to reduce disability oppression and improve education about disability rights.
Youth Leaders Are Active Leaders
Disability Resources on the Internet
Disability Social History Project
Global Networking
AccessWorld Newsletter
Books and DVDs Related to the Arts and Disabilities Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is the leading patient-directed national organization focusing on the most prevalent mental illnesses. The organization fosters an environment of understanding about the impact and management of these life-threatening illnesses by providing up-to-date, scientifically based tools and information written in language the general public can understand. The organization also has extensive information in Spanish.
The National Consortium on Leadership and Disability for Youth (NCLD/Y) NCLD/Y serves as a national youth-led information, training, and resource center. NCLD/Y has a four-pronged focus on working on developing leaders, developing the capacity of centers for independent living to serve those leaders, the capacity of the staff working directly with the leaders, and supporting the cadre of youth with disabilities-related organizations. This organization has produced many publications that are available for free download, and many of them are available in Spanish.
Family Support Center on Disabilities The Family Support Center on Disabilities provides an enormous amount of information that is of use for people with disabilities. Especially notable are the numerous links to resources in Spanish that are included, covering issues like the ADA, handling specific disabilities, mental health, and aging.
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
American Foundation for the Blind Web Site If you haven't recently stopped by the American Foundation for the Blind's web site, there have been some exciting changes since your last visit. While the site is as accessible as ever, all content on is either new or updated to reflect the increasing demand for timely, authoritative information on living with blindness or visual impairment. Some new features you'll be interested in include exhaustive information on assistive technology, including a searchable database of assistive technology products and manufacturers and fully updated content on employment, including continually updated job listings and information on workforce issues, job training, employment statistics, and much more.
Autism Society of America
Program to Assist Disabled Refugees in U.S.
Free-Loan Media Program
Disability Resource Hotline in Tennessee
Assistive Technology Hub
Rural Housing Repair and Rehabilitation Loans & Grants
Miracle Ear Children's Foundation
Consumer Review: Zephyr-TEC's eLearnSpeech Program Assistive technology equipment and training are expensive. Speech recognition software programs, for example, require hours of training, especially for people who have difficulty breathing because sometimes they require one-to-one assistance. I discovered a less expensive training option through a company called Zephyr-TEC. They have an innovative program called eLearnSpeech that provides speech recognition software training via the Internet. During Zephyr-TEC sessions, trainer and trainee work together in real time over the Internet and on the phone. If the trainee has difficulty with the program, the trainer intervenes and assists the student from his/her remote location. This program is a good alternative to costly home or office visits. Books about independent living in Spanish Diversitas Ediciones is a Spanish publisher who has made available a number of books in Spanish about independent living and the disability experience. These books can be downloaded for free from their website.
News site for Californians with disabilities Disability Rights California lists items of interest for people with disabilities in California, including policy issues, links, and in-depth coverage of disability rights. It is available in both English and Spanish.
Free books about disability and health Hesperian is a major publisher of books about health that are designed to be straightforward guides that people can use to educate themselves and others about practical ways of improving quality of life. Examples of recently published books include "A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities" and " Helping Children who are Deaf ." Many of their texts can be downloaded for free and most are translated into Spanish.
Disability law is an area of law that overlaps with many other areas of law – including employment law, administrative law, elder law, consumer law, construction law, insurance law, school law, health law, social security law, and civil rights law. Individuals with disabilities are a protected class under civil rights laws, and it is the one protected class that anyone can join, usually involuntarily, at any point in their lives. This handbook is a broad overview of rights and obligations under federal disability laws. Individual state laws may impose more stringent obligations. This handbook is intended to inform rather than to advise, and the information provided is of a general nature.
Human Rights Handbook for People with Intellectual Disabilities "We Have Human Rights" is a handbook published by the Harvard Lawschool Project on Disability (HPOD) that is an easy to read explanation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This handbook is available for download on their website in both English and Spanish.
Articles about Employment and Women with Disabilities Impact Magazine, published by the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota, has an entire issue about employment issues for women with disabilities. Among the many interesting articles is an autobiographical profile of Proyecto Visión's director, Kathy Martínez.
Youth, Disclosure, and the Workplace: Why, When, What, and How Every job seeker with a disability is faced with the same decision: "Should I or shouldn't I disclose my disability?" This decision may be framed differently depending upon whether you have a visible disability or a non-visible disability. Ultimately, the decision of whether to disclose is entirely up to you. Read more at the Office of Disability and Employment Website.
ADA and Accessible IT Center has expanded number of documents available in Spanish
Know Your Rights California residents can visit the State Attorney General's website to request a copy of a handbook that summarizes state and federal laws designed to protect the rights of people with disabilities. "Legal Rights of Persons with Disabilities" is the fourth edition of the publication. The new issue provides updates on the latest changes in legal protections.
A Model for Accessibility
Create Access for People with Disabilities in Your Organizations
Travel and Disability Publication
Multicultural Issues in Rehabilitation and Allied Health
The Disabled Woman's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth This book by Judith Rogers is based on intimate, in-depth interviews with ninety disabled women with 22 different types of disabilities. Thoroughly researched and informative, this book is a practical guide for both disabled women planning for pregnancy and the health professionals who work with them. The author supports the right of all women to choose motherhood.
Parent Briefs Available in Spanish
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (Centro Nacional de Diseminación de Información para Niños con Discapacidades)
Brain Injury Information
AIDTAC The 2008 GI Bill (officially known as the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008) provides benefits for veterans going to college. The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America have created this page to explain those benefits. The page also includes a calculator that can help veterans interested in pursuing a postsecondary education figure out how much they are entitled to in benefits.
VA Resources for Veteran Students & Their Families The VA maintains a list of resources for veteran students, covering various issues ranging from depression and PTSD to student groups and online communities that can help veterans succeed in higher education.
Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability: SPECIAL ISSUE: VETERANS WITH DISABILITIES Many veterans with disabilities are taking advantage of the new GI Bill passed last year to fund their higher education. As such, the Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability has responded with a series of articles that address the issues veterans with disabilities face and encourage them to use the disability services provided by the colleges and universities they attend. Two themes echo throughout these articles. The first is that Disability Services (DS) providers face a new set of challenges in ensuring that veterans with disabilities receive access to the education they deserve. The second is that the field of DS is at a crossroads, but in rising to meet these challenges, the DS profession can emerge as a leader in campus initiatives and in the promotion of the civil rights of all students with disabilities.
Combat on Many Fronts: Latino Veterans and Family The purpose of this video is to increase awareness of the cultural aspects of PTSD care for Latino American Veterans. PTSD does not discriminate. Latino Americans who have served in the U.S. military have their own life experience, which may include discrimination or abuse, which in turn may compound PTSD. The video’s goal is to help veterans and others understand the history and cultural issues of Latino Americans and how these veterans can be served. Combat on Many Fronts was discussed in the Proyecto Visión newsletter.
Hispanic Service Disabled Veterans (HSDV) HSDV is a program of the Association for Service Disabled Veterans (ASDV), a national association that is establishing greater economic participation for service-disabled and prisoner-of-war veterans and all of the 80 million veteran family members in the United States. Membership is comprised of individuals from the 2.2 million service disabled veterans in the U.S. and organizations that support the goals of ASDV. To pursue its mission, ASDV has established programs and services that address the areas of legislative and legal advocacy, business development, healthcare, and information access.
Disabled American Veterans (DAV) More than 200,000 vets and members of their families seek out DAV’s professional services every year. They need counseling on the full range of benefits for veterans and their families. They need help with disability compensation, VA pension, death benefits, VA medical care, Social Security disability benefits, veterans job programs, and so much more. They get that help – expert help – from other disabled vets who have undergone the stiffest training program in veterans affairs. An all-new, high-tech training program is making sure DAV National Service Officers (NSOs) will always remain the best. http://www.dav.org/Spanish.aspx
US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Center for Minority Veterans The Center for Minority Veterans is the Department of Veterans Affairs model for inter-and intra-agency co-operation, to ensure all veterans receive equal service regardless of race, origin, religion, or gender. The Center assists the VA in executing its mission in the most equitable, efficient, and humane way possible. Dignity and an acceptable quality of life are the products that must be delivered to ALL veterans, no matter what their circumstances.
VA Fact Sheets in English and Spanish These fact sheets explain different VA benefits, including general benefits, disability benefits, education benefits, dependents benefits, and more. There are more than 40 fact sheets providing detailed information.
Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) The Paralyzed Veterans of America, a congressionally chartered veterans service organization founded in 1946, has developed a unique expertise on a wide variety of issues involving the special needs of its members—veterans of the armed forces who have experienced spinal-cord injury or dysfunction. http://www.pva.org/site/PageServer?pagename=span_home
United Spinal’s VetsFirst program directly serves the needs of the veteran community. A network of National Service Officers provides assistance and representation in claims for benefits and services before the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, other federal and state agencies and legal representation before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
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