Resources: National Web Sites

The following web sites are the most highly developed nationally recognized sites providing more information on disabilities:

Homepage for Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD), the professional organization for support service providers in the offices for students with disabilities on campus.http://www.ahead.org

HEATH stands for Higher Education and the Handicapped and is housed at the George Washington University. http://www.heath.gwu.edu/index.html

The HEATH Resource Center offers an extensive list of publications that can be downloaded at no coast. The list of publications can be accessed at:http://www.heath.gwu.edu/Publicationspage.htm

Publications include (under resource papers):

Financial Aid for Students with Disabilities 2003
Adult Language/Learning Disability: Issues and Resources
Selecting A College for Students with Learning Disabilities or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Student with a Brain Injury: Achieving Goals for Higher Education
Students Who Are Blind/Visually Impaired in Postsecondary Education
Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Postsecondary Education
Summer Precollege Programs for Students with Disabilities –2002
Career Planning and Employment Strategies for Postsecondary Students with Disabilities
Distance Learning and Adults with Disabilities
Young Adult with Learning Disabilities and Other Special Needs
Strategies for Advising Disabled Students for Postsecondary Education
Getting Ready for College: Advising High School Students with Learning Disabilities

Homepage for Learning Disabilities Online, an award winning site for information about learning disabilities. http://www.ldonline.org/
LD Online's page provides disability information for adults with learning disabilities. The topics include: Abilities, ADD/ADHD, Adult Issues, Assessment, Behavior/Discipline, Bilingual/LD, Early Identification, Family Relationships, Foreign Lang. Acquisition, Gifted/LD, Glossaries, I.E.P., Legal & Legislative, LD In-General, Math Skills, Nonverbal LD, Paraprofessionals, Parenting, Postsecondary Education, Processing Deficits, Reading, Research Digest, Self-Esteem, Social Skills, Special Education/IDEA 97, Speech & Language, Summer Programs, For Teachers, Technology, Transition, Writinghttp://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/adult/index.html

The Project PACE web site, affiliated with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, includes fourteen articles from their newsletter on topics such as web page accessibility and key strategies in teaching students with specific disabilities. More information can be found at http://www.ualr.edu/~pace/pubs.html

Homepage for PEPNet, an online service “to assist postsecondary institutions across the nation to attract and effectively serve individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing.” http://www.pepnet.org/ PEPNet's resources can be accessed at: http://prc.csun.edu/

Alternative Textbook Resource List from Southern Illinois University Carbondale Disability Support Services(Word File)PUBLISHERS RESOURCE LIST, This publishers list has been compiled to assist students with navigating through the alternative text process. Students should look through this list to see if they can get the materials through these publishers. Following the publishers list are other resources/text repositories that students can access to see if their materials are available. There are also some other basic suggestions. http://www.siu.edu/~dss/publishers.htm

University of Washington's DO-IT Faculty Room provides faculty and administrators at postsecondary institutions ways “to create classroom environments and activities that maximize the learning of all students, including those with disabilities.” http://www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty Faculty Room includes a link to videos and PowerPoint presentations online. http://www.washington.edu/doit/Newsletters/calendar.html

Last revised on 11/10/2004

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