Web Resources

This page is subject to change.

Our goal is to recommend a few excellent resources in each category and subcategory.

For now, main resource categories include but are not limited to clearing houses for disabilities related tools, computer and web-access related tools; accessibility; disability/ability-related organizations, periodicals. Most will have online access.

Online Resources

Please share your favorite web site resource with us, giving a brief explanation of the site or, if obvious, what excels about the site. Please test the URL for function before sending it on.

We will appreciate knowing if a particular site is non-functioing.

For Creating Caring Congregations
a new video for the church and Mental Illness Network,
visit www.pathways2promise.org. A youth, an adult, and an older person, all excellent spokespersons, talk about their mental illnesses. It contains five steps a local congregation can take to become a Caring Congregation.

ABLEDATA, clearing house for locating specific assistive technology products and rehabilitative information
http://www.abledata.com/

Access Unlimited
The power of choice in mobility. http://accessunlimited.com/html/link_barn.html

David’s Access
Access to ideas, technology, independence….
(David Clark serves on the UCC DM Board.)
http://www.davidsaccess.com/

EnableMart,
Technology for everyone.
http://www.enablemart.com/about.asp

ETO Engineering
Accessible cell phones
http://www.etoengineering.com/index.htm

JJ’s List
Where people with disabilities review businesses and services. Search for disability aware businesses.
http:www/jjslist.com

Leader Dogs for the Blind

Home Page

assist dogs for persons with visual impairments, who are blind, who are deaf and blind; Trekker GPS training

Next Generation Technologies, Inc.
http://www.ngtvoice.com/

Solutions for Humans
http://www.sforh.com/service/policy.html

Window-Eyes
Screen readers and other products for persons with viual needs.
http://www.gwmicro.com/
Screen readers and other products for persons with viual needs.

WSANA (West Suburban Access News Assocciation (Oak Park, IL)
A model website with information solely for persons with disability. Executive Director of organization is a member of a U.C.C. Church and a person with an invisible disability. Has been visited by over 162,000 persons since September of 2003.
www.wsana.org

United Cerebral Palsy
www.ucp.org
United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) is the leading source of information on cerebral palsy and is a pivotal advocate for the rights of persons with any disability. As one of the largest health charities in America, the UCP mission is to advance the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people with disabilities through an affiliate network.

Web Resources yet to catalog:
www.about ourkids.org
www.bpkids.org
www.save.org
www.min-ucc.org
www.nami.org
www.nod.org
www.disabledwomen.net

Daryl Green’s monthly column on health, healing, and coping with disabilities
www.densmorereid.com
A free, step-by-step pamphlet on setting up a class for persons with developmental disabilities is available toll-free at 877.505.3675 or at .

+ ESP Softworks launches new line of games for blind persons in 2000

+ Job Accommodation Network’s Free Consulting Service: The Job Accommodation Network helps persons with physical limitations or disabilities find ways to make their working environment accessible with special equipment, assistive devices, or workspace modifications. Call at 800/526-7234 or 800/ADA-WORK

+ WebABLE: One-stop shopping for disability-related resources.

+ Wemedia: portal for people with disabilities.

Organizations

Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services, Inc.
Sections on families, congregations, worship, and Christian education
.

The Fellowship of UCC Architects (FOA). Consultation resource for churches considering any sort of renovation, especially those that allow all to worship and serve. To assist churches in recovery of damages for non-ADA compliant construction, the FOA also will critique completed plans and unsatisfactory changes. For area participating members, contact Gary Roberts at robertsg@ucc.org or at 216.736.3822.

Interfaith Ministries and Mental Illness
Pathways to Promise – Mental Illness Educational Materials. With links to many other organizations and sources of information, this significant cooperative ministry among 15 denominations is the best place to begin searching for information about brain illnesses. Among resources are four attractive, informative bulletin inserts, each with an appropriate scripture:

“Reaching Out to Someone Who Has Mental Illness”-Mt. 25:35
“Mental Illness: Community Outreach”-Heb. 13:1-2
“Creating Caring Congregations for People with Mental Illness and Their Families”-John 15:12
“Responding to People with Mental Illness in the Congregation and in the Community”-Micah 6:8

The Mental Illness Network, 414 Pleasant Ave.; Sandwich IL 60548; or at bobdell@ecunt.org. The Network site is www.min-ucc.org. An order form for these and other resources is available on the Web site of Pathways to Promise (Interfaith Ministries and Mental Illness at wwwpathways2promise.org; or send an e-mail to pathways@inlink.com.

National Information Center for Children and Youths with Disabilities

Contact 800 695 0285 or nichcy@aed.org

The National Organization on Disability (NOD) Resource web site
directory of religious leaders with disabilities. To become a member, contact Lorraine Thal or Ginny Thornburgh at 202.293.5360; e-mail religion@nod.org or go to http://www.nod.org. The interfaith listing includes ordained clergy, religious educators, seminary faculty, and
seminarians.