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• Ability Culture
  The Ability Culture web site consists of culture, arts and entertainment for people with disabilities.
  http://abilityculture.com
  
  
• ABILITY Magazine
  ABILITY Magazine is the first publication focusing on disabilities to crossover into mainstream America. By interviewing high profile personalities such as President Clinton, Camryn Manheim, Alexandra Paul, Mary Tyler Moore, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Masur , Richard Pryor, Jane Seymour, Steve Allen and many more all discussing their personal involvement with disabilities, ABILITY Magazine is able to bring articles to the public's attention that may in the past have gone unnoticed. ABILITY Magazine provides information on New Technologies, the "Americans with Disability Act", Travel and Leisure, Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities, Human interest Stories, National and Local Resource Centers and more. ABILITY Magazine helps remove the misunderstandings and erase the stereotypes that surround disability issues.
  www.abilitymagazine.com/
  
  
• Active Living Magazine
  Active Living is the cross-disability "how-to, where-to, and what-to" magazine for people who want to attain or maintain a healthy, active lifestyle. 
  www.cripworld.com/themall/activeliving.shtml
  
  
• ADA Watch
  ADA Watch is an informational online network designed to activate grassroots responses to threats to the ADA.  also provide support to the ADA Watch coalition, a national network of organizations united to protect and strengthen the ADA. 
  www.adawatch.org/
  
  
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
  The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
  www.infomotions.com/alex/
  
  
• A Reason for Living
  "A Reason for Living" is Laurent Grenier's extremely moving story of his triumph over a disabling injury as he found meaning in life despite everything. Part autobiography, part philosophical essay, "A Reason for Living" looks back on the author's past - his active, athletic youth abruptly interrupted by his diving accident, which left him a near quadriplegic and led to further hardships - and shows us the way to fulfillment against great odds through the courageous pursuit of wisdom and happiness.
  http://laurentgrenier.com/ARFL.html
  
  

• Callahan Online
  The web page of John Callahan, world's most famous quad cartoonist and author of many books. Check out his books and order them on this site.
  www.callahanonline.com/
  
  

• The Center for An Accessible Society
  The website of The Center for An Accessible Society, is where you'll find new ideas to replace old thinking, new stories to replace the same old ways of covering today's issues.  A national organization the Center for An Accessible Society is a project of Exploding Myths, Inc. a media enterprise company. The Center for An Accessible Society is a communications clearinghouse providing journalists credible information and quotable sources on national disability policy and independent living issues.
  www.accessiblesociety.org/

• Coalition for Disabled Musicians, Inc. (CDM)
  CDM was designed to: Introduce disabled musicians to each other who have an understanding of disability-related problems. Give access to an accessible rehearsal and recording studio. Create "tag-team" systems and other adaptive techniques for pain, endurance, and other limitations. Set up studio and stage bands for amateurs and professionals. Hold live performances, produce recordings, and hold music workshops and seminars. Promote public awareness of the disabled community as a great reservoir of talent and ability.
  www.disabled-musicians.org/
  
  
• Consequential Ideas
  Sam Challenger produces and designs T-Shirts and greeting cards aimed at Wheelchair users, and shows them on the Consequential Ideas web site. Sam hopes this site will become popular not only with men and women who have spinal injures, but also with able bodied visitors too.
  www.consequential-ideas.co.uk/
  
  
• CSS Conduit
  SRS/HCP Community Supports & Services' online newsletter!  CSS plans to post this newsletter on the CSS web site on the first Friday of every month. Special additions may also be posted if there is important information that CSS needs to share immediately. By producing this newsletter, CSS hopes to enhance communication and information sharing with their community partners.
  www.srskansas.org/hcp/css/News.htm
  
  
• Disabilities Information Resources (DINF)
  DINF is New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation that collects information on disabilities and disabilities related subjects and makes it available through the World Wide Web. The information being placed on the Web site is designed for use by researchers, legislative bodies, people with disabilities, and people working in the disabilities field.
  www.dinf.org/
  
  
• Disability is Natural
  The source for thought-provoking articles, products to promote new ways of thinking, and more! The mission of this site is to encourage new ways of thinking about disability and to help create a society in which all people are valued and included. The Disability is Natural web site is brought to you by BraveHeart Press, the family-owned business of Kathie Snow. 
  www.disabilityisnatural.com
  
  
• Dis"ability" Joke Books
  Dis"ability" Joke Books is a refreshingly humorous look at issues and aspects of disability. More than 215 cartoons from Frank Warner's wheelchair perspective hit the mark on everything from parking, strangers assumptions, to lift mechanisms run amok!
  http://disabilityjokebooks.50megs.com/
  
  

• DisAbility News & Views Radio Show

  Tune in to DisAbility News & Views every week to hear exciting new topics with great guests and your host, Monica Moshenko

  www.disabilitynewsradio.com
  
  

• Disability Social History Project
  The Disability Social History Project is a community history project and we welcome your participation. This is an opportunity for disabled people to reclaim our history and determine how we want to define ourselves and our struggles. People with disabilities have an exciting and rich history that should be shared with the world.
  www.disabilityhistory.org
  
  

• Disability Solutions
  Disability Solutions is the free publication of The Enoch-Gelbard Foundation. It's mission is: "To provide in a widely accessible manner, free of charge, information that is useful, sensitive, and current to everyone concerned with developmental disabilities: parents, families, self-advocates, and professionals."
  www.disabilitysolutions.org/
  
  
• Disability World
  DisabilityWorld is a new web-zine dedicated to advancing an exchange of information and research about the international independent living movement of people with disabilities. The web-zine is the heart of a larger project, IDEAS for the New Millennium, funded in 1999 by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) as a five-year project, administered by the World Institute on Disability (WID).
  www.disabilityworld.org/
  
  
• Disabled and Proud
  Disabled and Proud is a celebration of our power, our potential, and our pride as people with Disabilities. This is done through Disability Pride products; through poetry, artwork, writings, songs, and more; through the nation's first Disability Pride Parade that will be held in Chicago, Illinois on July 18, 2004.
  www.disabledandproud.com
  
  
• Disabled Dealer Magazine
  America's No. 1 adaptive resources guide.  Disabled Dealer Magazine's mission is to bring people with disabilities and the elderly complete access to new and pre-owned adaptive equipment, services, resources, and events throughout the nation.
  www.disableddealer.com/
  
  
• disABLEDperson.com
  disABLEDperson.com is an online magazine dealing with the human side of disabilities. What disABLEDperson.com is looking to accomplish is to provide a true and realistic depiction of your disability and how you are coping. disABLEDperson.com intends on covering stories that deal with your disability either from a physical, emotional or a financial standpoint. disABLEDperson.com hopes to provide information about how you overcame adversity pertaining to your disability. disABLEDperson.com is also a community for the disABLED.
  www.disabledperson.com/
  
  
• Dizabled 
  Dizabled is a comic strip staring Leeder O. Men, Wheelchair Stuntman & Extreme Athlete. Dizabled is a creation of John & Claire Lytle.
  www.dizabled.com
  
  
• DND Press
  DND Press is a publisher of books for the disabled, by the disabled. While the mainstream publishing community focuses on the needs of the “able bodied”, DND Press has set its sights higher. With a large percentage of the population disabled to one degree or another, DND Press is determined to provide information and resources tailored to their needs. The DND Press is the home of the Disability Resource Library. The Disability Resource Library is a comprehensive collection of disability  related documents including the complete texts of major disability laws, regulations, government reports, guides, and more. DND Press recently added the Disability Rights Calendar to its site. You can list your disability rights/advocacy events (at no cost) and learn about upcoming events around the nation.
  www.dndpress.com/
  www.dndpress.com/calendar.htm
  
  
• Dyslexia Online
  Dyslexia Online is an online magazine offering new perspectives on Dyslexia.
  www.audiblox2000.com/dyslexia_dyslexic/dyslexia.htm
  
  
• EnableLink
  EnableLink is a new online community just for visually impaired adults and their families. On our pages you will find breaking news, music reviews, lifestyle articles, technology features and much more.
  www.enablelink.com
  
  
• EnabledOnline.com
  EnabledOnline.com’s mission is to create an enabled community online. The primary goal of EnabledOnline.com is to provide persons with disabilities, their loved ones and caregivers a place to connect.
  www.enabledonline.com
  
  
• Exceptional Parent Magazine
  Exceptional Parent Magazine's online resource.  Continuing 30 award winning years of providing information, support, ideas, encouragement and outreach for parents and families of children with disabilities and the professionals who work with them.
  www.eparent.com/
  
  
• HalfthePlanet
  HalfthePlanet is a disability-focused web site that offers half the planet's population -- including 150 million people in the United States whose personal and professional lives are affected by disability -- comprehensive, reliable information, products and services.
  www.halftheplanet.com
  
  
• HiPMag Online
  HiP Magazine is an award-winning non-profit publication for today's deaf and hard-of-hearing kids, 8 to 14 years old, and their pals.
  www.hipmag.org/
  
  
• Institute on Disability Culture
  The Institute on Disability Culture is promoting pride in the history, activities, and cultural identity of individuals with disabilities throughout the world. The purpose of this site is to provide a forum for disability culture, to share information, and to provide examples of our culture. You will find lots of links to the web sites of artists, writers, organizations, and press.
  www.dimenet.com/disculture/
  
  
• Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB) 
  The Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB) is the international, interdisciplinary journal of record on blindness and visual impairment that publishes scholarship and information and serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas, airing of controversies, and discussion of issues.
  www.afb.org/jvib/main.asp
  
  

• Kids on Wheels

  Kids on Wheels is a dynamic new Web site, Magazine, and Book for young wheelchair users and the adults who care about them. Two separate magazines come with your subscription. Both polybagged together … one for kids and one for adults.

  www.kidsonwheels.cc/
  
  

• Mainstream - Magazine of the Able-Disabled
  A news, advocacy and lifestyle magazine for people with disabilities. Technology, products and info to enhance living successfully with a disability.
  www.mainstream-mag.com/
  
  

• BOB MAURO'S ART GALLERY
  I was born in 1946 and contracted polio in 1951 at age 5.  I use a motorized wheelchair and a respirator.  I began to draw and paint in 1961.
  http://hometown.aol.com/bobezwriter/art.html
  
  

• Mouth
  Mouth Magazine a bi-monthly magazine, usually only in print, has an online sample. Mouth Magazine is now the only disability rights-oriented magazine put to printed page, and that is our focus. The Ragged Edge, the other one, recently went to web only, and is the place to go for the latest news and articles if you prefer the free and complete coverage via accessible web.
  www.mouthmag.com
  www.ragged-edge-mag.com
  
  

• New Mobility
  The premier lifestyle publication serving the resource and informational needs of people with disabilities.
  www.newmobility.com/
  
  
• The National Arts and Disability Center (NADC)
  NADC is the national information dissemination, technical assistance and referral center specializing in the field of arts and disability. The NADC promotes the full inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into the visual-, performing-, media, and literary-arts communities.
  nadc.ucla.edu/
  
  
• The Nth Degree
  No Bounderies, man. Life: take it to the nth degree. The Nth Degree catalog is a place where folks can come to find Solidarity and to share talents, skills and stories. We have lots and lots of "Awarewear" and "Awareware": shirts and stuff for Disability Culture, the Inclusion and Independent Living Movements, and for the "Human Connection" we all share.
  www.thenthdegree.com/
  
  
• PN / Paraplegia News
  The news / information magazine for people with mobility impairments, covering the latest on spinal-cord-injury research, new products, legislation, people with disabilities, accessible travel, computers, and more.
  www.pn-magazine.com
  
  
• Patrick Communications - What he has to say may change your life.
  Mike Patrick got the electric chair and lived to tell about it. The electric wheelchair that is... You see, when Mike was a junior in high school, a football injury left him a quadriplegic. Today, Mike is a motivational speaker, health educator and author with good news to tell.
  www.patcom.com

• pd's Disability Poetry Online
  pat deak's Disability Poetry Online is "A Place To Share Our Minds And Clear Our Minds". You can submit your disability-related poetry at this World Wide Web site.
  www.expage.com/page/crippoems

• The Ragged Edge
  The on-line version of The Ragged Edge disability magazine.
  www.ragged-edge-mag.com/
  
  
• The Riot!  -  Self-Advocacy, it's a riot!
  The Riot!  -  Self-Advocacy, it's a riot! is a National E-Newsletter for Self-Advocates from the Self-Advocate Leadership Network at Human Services Research Institute
  www.hsri.org/leaders/theriot
  
  
• Special Child Magazine
  Special Child Magazine is a free online publication for parents and caregivers of children with special needs. Features include stories from their readers, informative articles, a family advice column, a fully interactive bulletin board service, and much, much more.
  www.specialchild.com/
  
  
• SpecialLiving
  After editing ACCENT ON LIVING for 25 years, Betty felt that disabled people should continue to have an option about which magazine they read and wanted to continue a magazine that serves the needs of a special audience. If you want accessible housing, special products, such as ramps, bathing systems, urinary devices, lifts, etc.; to travel -- close to home or to exotic destinations --; inspiration; how to get in better shape; and more. SpeciaLiving magazine is for you...
  www.specialiving.com/
  
  
• TechJourney.com
  TechJourney.com has a lot of essential resources for computer professionals.
  www.techjourney.com/
  
  
• United Spinal Association Action online magazine 
  United Spinal Association has expanded opportunities for people with Spinal Cord Disabilities for over 60 years. United Spinal Association has a monthly online magazine called Action, and it's available to everyone who is a member of the United Spinal Association. Membership is free to those with injuries, and in addition to getting the magazine, members have access to help with legal issues, housing problems, and even travel arrangements.
  www.unitedspinal.org
  
  
• VSA arts
  VSA arts is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1974 by
  Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where all people with
  disabilities learn through, participate in and enjoy the arts. VSA arts
  provides educators, parents, and artists with resources and the tools to
  support arts programming in schools and communities. VSA arts showcases
  the accomplishments of artists with disabilities and promotes increased
  access to the arts for people with disabilities. Each year millions of
  people participate in VSA arts programs through a nationwide network of
  affiliates and in more than 60 countries around the world. VSA arts is
  an affiliate of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
  www.vsarts.org