Description: "The IDEA Working Group, composed of key Congressional and Administration officials, has completed preliminary proposals for the IDEA bill. Last week, Congressional members of the relevant House and Senate Committees and representatives from the Administration met and agreed in principal to these proposals. CEC will neither formally support nor oppose the IDEA bill until the final language is completed on May 2, 1997."

Description: "An overview of the bill, a summary of the bill, and a brief set of frequently asked questions and answers are provided for people interested in having a broad understanding of some of the changes in IDEA'97."

Description: "The purpose of IDEA is to strengthen and coordinate education and related services for youth with disabilities currently in school or who recently left school to help them make the transition to post-secondary education, vocational training, competitive employment (including supported employment), continuing education, independent and community living, or adult services; to stimulate the development and improvement of programs for special education at the secondary level; and to stimulate the improvement of the vocational and life skills of students with disabilities to better prepare them for the transition to adult life and services."

Description: "This website contains copies of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), ADA regulations, technical assistance manuals prepared by the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and other United States Department of Justice (DOJ), technical assistance documents sponsored by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) and reviewed by EEOC or DOJ.

This website also provides you with links to other Internet sources of information concerning disability issues as well as links to other Internet sources of information concerning legal issues and also sources concerning occupational health and safety and Total Quality Management issues.

Description: Official government site on the ADA includes ADA information line, Enforcement, Status Report, Technical Assistance Program, Certification, Technical Assistance Materials, New or Proposed Regulations, Settlement Information, and ADA Mediation.

Description: "The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides continual professional development, advocates for newly and historically under-served individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice.".

Description: "The Academy for Educational Development (AED) established DSSC in 1994 to design programs that meet the unique information, technical assistance, training, and research needs of professionals and programs who serve to improve the lives of infants, toddlers, children, youth, and adults with disabilities, and their families. DSSC administers the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY), The Federal Resource Center for Special Education (FRC), the National Transition Alliance (NTA), the Technical Assistance Center for Professional Development Partnerships and COACH."

Description: Meeting the needs of Youth with disabilities: Handbook on Supplemental Security Income Work Incentives and Transition Students published: October 1998 Jointly developed by: The Study Group Inc., SSI Work Incentives, Transitioning Youth Project, and the National Transition Network.

Description: Established by Congress, NICHCY is an information and referral center that publishes guides, briefs and many documents; some focused on issues related to transitioning youth with disabilities. In addition, NICHCY acts as a referral to a wide network of specialists from agencies and organizations across the country. NICHCY's focus is on education and children and youth, from birth to 22 years.

Description: "The National Transition Alliance for Youth with Disabilities (NTA) seeks the formation of one education system that benefits from the lessons learned from special education, regular education, and vocational education. The NTA is working to create a brighter future for all youth transitioning from school to employment, post-secondary experiences and independent living, and to bridge between agencies responsible for providing transition services and the lessons learned from people in the disabilities field."

Description: "OSERS supports programs that assist in educating children with special needs, provides for the rehabilitation of youth and adults with disabilities, and supports research to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities."

Description: This site has loads of information on Social Security Administration programs and benefits, including any forms you might need. Spanish version available.

Description: "WAPD advances the interests of its members at national, state, local, and home levels. We believe that everyone is entitled to decent and quality living. Over…ten years of "grassroots" planning and growth have catapulted the association into a world leadership position that will be, quietly but securely, advancing the soundness and happiness of the "dis-ABLED" everywhere."

Description: This site provides information about and services within the Arizona Department of Education.

Description: This site is the home page for the ADEs Department of Exceptional Student Services.

Description: This site is the home page for the Arizona department of Health services.

Description: Official site of the Arizona legislature with information on upcoming bills, the Arizona Revised Statutes, and legal documents.

Description: Arizona Rehabilitation Services Administration (AZRSA) is a division of The Department of Economic Security. Our mission is to work with individuals with disabilities to achieve increased independence and/or gainful employment through the provision of comprehensive rehabilitative and employment support services in a partnership with all stakeholders.

Description: "Community Information and Referral is a United Way Partner Agency with a mission to help you find whatever you need in your community.

Residents of ten Arizona counties including Apache, Coconino, Gila, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pinal, Yavapai, and Yuma rely on our comprehensive, continually updated database of information.

From basic needs to emergency assistance, self-help groups to recreation, our trained Helpline Specialists will help. Call our free, anonymous, 24-Hour Helpline or use our online database to find the answers you're looking for."

Description: Information and Referral's Directory of Helping Services in Southern Arizona is a comprehensive listing of non-profit and government organizations that offer assistance for concerns affecting individuals and families.

Description: "This web page contains hypertext links to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. This site contains links to State services and resources and U.S. DOE sponsored State and Regional Services and Resources."

Description: "AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, councelors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the world. It began in 1992 as a project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on information and technology at Syracuse University. Today it encompasses the resources of the entire ERIC system and beyond. So when you need education information, all you have to do is AskERIC!"

Description: "The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education (ERIC EC) is one of 16 federally funded clearinghouses in the ERIC system, a nationwide information network sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Education Research and Improvement (OERI), and administered by the National Library of Education (NLE).

ERIC EC gathers and disseminates the professional literature, information, and resources on the education and development of individuals of all ages who have disabilities and/or who are gifted.

Description: "Teaching College Students with Disabilities - A selection of online resources for faculty and staff. This extensive collection of resources was compiled and reviewed by Al Cavalier, School of Education, University of Delaware. CTE gratefully acknowledges Dr. Cavalier's work and posts this document with his permission."

Description: "College Connections was started on the basic premise that students with Learning Disabilities and/or Attention Deficit-Hyper-activity Disorder should be attending college. In order for this to be accomplished, students need to be prepared for the college environment and parents need to have help seeking the necessary services at the college level. College Connections was founded to do both of these things. It was formed to help parents, students, and teachers. We help to prepare students for college and help to provide access to appropriate services at the college level."

Description: This site contains a resource directory for special educators. It is a guide to education and technology resources on the World Wide Web.

Description: "NCPSE and the council for Exceptional Children (CEC) have developed a network of persons interested in topic educators with disabilities. EDN serves as a forum pre-service for students and faculty administrators to exchange information."

Description: "Welcome to the world's only university for deaf and hard of hearing undergraduate students. Graduate degree programs and continuing education courses are available to deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing students."

Description: "Good evening and welcome to Indie, a great resource for persons with disabilities worldwide! Indie was developed to be a directory of disability information on the internet. You can search our databases of useful links by category or keyword search." Available in French.

Description: This official government site offers program and services information for people with disabilities. It includes links to current legislation of concern to people with disabilities.

Description: "Within these resources, teachers will find assistance in working with students with disabilities and how to utilize the computer as a valuable tool towards inclusion and integrate technology effectively into their curriculum."

Description: "Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) is a collection of Internet accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education. This collection exists in order to make online Special Education resources more easily and readily available in one location. This site will continually modify, update, and add additional informative links. If you know of other resources that should be included here, please send the URL to horner2@ix.netcom.com."

Description: This index lists all of the DOEd online documents related to disabilities, including links to legislation, grants, and technical reports.

Description: This site provides a variety of links related to School-to-Work Transitioning.

Description: "YSI is the premier provider in the Youth Care Industry of educational and developmental services that change, dramatically, the thinking and behavior of troubled youth, preparing them to become self-sufficient taxpayers."

Description: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics is part of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). The DOL is charged with preparing the workforce for new and better jobs, and ensuring the adequacy of America's workplaces. It is responsible for the administration and enforcement of over 180 federal statutes. These mandates and the regulations produced to implement them cover a wide variety of workplace activities for nearly ten million employers and well over 100 million workers, including protecting workers' wages, health and safety, employment and pension rights; promoting equal employment opportunity; administering job training, unemployment insurance and workers' compensation programs; strengthening free collective bargaining and collecting, analyzing and publishing labor and economic statistics."

Description: The site contains access to current School to Work publications, resources and research materials, curriculum offerings, and information on school to work practices across the state of Wisconsin and the country.

Description: The Division on Career Development and Transition focuses on the career development of children, youth and adults of all ages and exceptionalities. DCDT also focuses on transition from school to adult life as a major component of the career development process.

Description: Courage Vocational Services Center provides a variety of vocational services ranging from counseling to assessment to training services, including job placement strategies and supported employment. This site has a number of links to information about employment for people with disabilities.

Description: This site includes information about the Education and Work Program at the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory. Online information includes the Tech Prep Networker newsletter, conference information, publications, workshops, and other useful Web pages.

Keywords: Jobs for the Future, a national non-profit organization, works to enhance economic security and access to opportunity for all individuals by strengthening the transitions and linkages between learning and work. The organization conducts research, proposes policy innovation, designs systems, and provides technical assistance to help people and regions adapt to change.

Description: The National Alliance of Business is at the forefront of local and national efforts to find innovative, long-term solutions to the challenge of improving workforce quality. The Alliance and its member companies are leading efforts to improve American education, build bridges form school to work, expand life-long learning opportunities for all workers, and implement workforce development and job placement systems that meet the needs of employers and job seekers.

Description: The NELC is a coalition of CEO's from a diverse group of private sector companies with a shared vision for the nation's workforce. The mission of the Council is to enhance the quality of the nation's workforce and to improve the productivity and competitiveness of American business through work-based learning opportunities for all students.

Description: The School-to-Work Internet Gateway is designed to promote awareness of the School-to-Work (STW) Initiative, increase communications between federal and state-level sponsors, and the National community. This site contains current STW publications, resource and research material, media announcements, and information on STW practices across the country.

Description: "School-to-Work Programs and Policies. The following citations address the issue of school-to-work programs and policies. This bibliography does not represent an exhaustive review of the literature on the topic, but merely an introductory exploration of available information."

Description: "State vocational and rehabilitation agencies coordinate and provide a number of services for disabled persons. These services can include counseling, evaluation, training and job placement. There are also services for the sight and hearing impaired. For more information, call or write the office nearest you."

Description: "The U.S. Government's official site for jobs and employment information provided by the United States Office of Personnel Management, including current openings, general information, and online applications."

Description: This organization hosts a Goals 2000 project for parent involvement in information. The site includes information for parents on how to be effectively involved in their child's education; tips for educators on how to include parents in their classrooms; early childhood development and parent-professional partnership training available through CPIRC; the latest in parent involvement research; and parent interviews describing how parent involvement has affected their family.

Description: "Welcome to Information and Referral's online Directory of Helping Services in Southern Arizona. This is a comprehensive listing of non-profit and government organizations that offer assistance for concerns affecting individuals and families."

Description: Disability Resources, Inc. is a nonprofit organization established to promote and improve awareness, availability and accessibility of information for independent living.

Description: An organization that integrates information resources and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with mental retardation and other disabilities, for their families, and for those that provide them services and support.

Description: "Aging and Disability Services promotes and helps maintain maximum independence, safety, dignity, self-determination, quality of life and opportunities for community participation for seniors and persons with disabilities."

Description: This site contains a state by state listing of the names, addresses, and phone numbers of Independent Living Centers in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Description: The National Parent Network on Disabilities acts as a national advocacy and lobbying organization on behalf of children and adults with disabilities. NPND provides written information on inclusion and was established to provide a presence and national voice for parents of children, youth, and adults with special needs. NPND shares information and resources to promote and support the power of parents to influence and affect policy issues concerning the needs of people with disabilities and their families.

Description: PACER's mission is to improve and expand opportunities that enhance the quality of life for children and young adults with all disabilities - physical, mental, emotional, learning - and their families. PACER's programs help parents become informed and effective representatives for their children in early childhood, school-age, and vocational settings. Through knowledge about laws, resources and parents' rights and responsibilities, families are better equipped to work with agencies to obtain appropriate services for their sons and daughters.

Description: The Sibling Support Project is a national program dedicated to the interests of brothers and sisters of people with special health and developmental needs. Publication, workshop information, community programs, and more are available on this site.

Description: This site is home page for the "Parent Advocate News". It contains several articles written by parents, for parents, concerning issues relating to children with developmental disabilities

Description: The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) is devoted to increasing the accessibility of information technology. The ATRC is involved in research and development to find innovative solutions to accessibility challenges. ATRC also provides training, consultation, and information to help both and users to effectively use adaptive technology.

Description: "The Alliance for Technology Access (ATA) is a network of community-based resource centers dedicated to providing information and support services to children and adults with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard, assistive, and informational technologies. Centers can be found all across the country."

Description: "The Assistive Technology funding System Change Project provides training, technical assistance, and information on assistive technology funding and systems change issues nationwide. The goal of the project is to provide advocates with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve access to assistive technology devices and services for individuals with disabilities."

Description: This site provides information about assistive technology, organized by type of media being adapted and by types of assistive devices.

Description: "Aztech, Inc. is a not-for-profit, community-based enterprise, by and for persons with disabilities. The name Aztech, Inc. stands for A to Z assistive TECHnology. Aztech is operated by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology Evaluation and Transfer (RERC-TET). The RERC-TET is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education."

Description: "DO-IT at the University of Washington" is: People with disabilities successfully pursuing academics and careers. Programs to promote the use of technology to maximize the independence, productivity, and participation of people with disabilities. Recipient of the National Information Infrastructure Award; Education and the President's Award of Excellence in Mentoring and showcased at the President's summit on Volunteerism, and…resources for you!

Description: The FRC supports a nationwide special education technical assistance network (funded by the US Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services), plans national meetings of education professionals, provides a national perspective for establishing technical assistance activities across regions by identifying emerging issues and trends in special education, and assists in linking Regional Resource Centers with each other and with other technical assistance providers.

project that promotes the effective use of technology to enhance educational outcomes for students with sensory, cognitive, physical and social/emotional disabilities.

Description: "The Alexander Graham Bell Assoc. for the Deaf is a non-profit membership organization that was established in 1890 to empower persons who are hearing impaired to function independently by promoting universal rights and optimal opportunities to learn to use, maintain, and improve all aspects of their verbal communications including their abilities to speak, speechread, use residual hearing, and process both spoken and written language."

Description: "With more than 1,100 affiliated chapters and 140,000 members across the United States, The Arc (Formerly Association for Retarded Citizens of the United States) is the country's largest voluntary organization committed to the welfare of all children and adults with mental retardation and their families."

Description: "The mission of the Autism Society of America is to promote lifelong access and opportunities for persons within the autism spectrum and their families, to be fully included, participating members of their communities through advocacy, public awareness, education, and research related to autism."

Description: " The New York Institute for Special Education (NYISE) is a private, non-profit, non-sectarian education facility which provides quality programs for children who are blind or visually disabled, emotionally and learning disabled and preschoolers who are developmentally delayed. NYISE is chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York for and on behalf of the State Education Department, and is accredited by the National Commission for the Accreditation of Special Education Services."

Description: Braille Planet, Inc. produces MegaDots, the world's most advanced Braille software. Everyday thousands of people use MegaDots to produce accessible documents. Our mission is to make our planet a Braille Planet. We believe everyone deserves access to information in whatever form they choose. Being a non-profit organization enables Braille Planet to work together with the assistive technology and blindness communities on new and innovative ways to accomplish our mission of accessibility."

Description: "The national non-profit organization representing children and adults with attention deficit/hyper-activity disorder (AD/HD). Founded in 1987 by a group of concerned parents, CHADD works to improve the lives of people with attention deficit/hyper-activity disorder through education, advocacy and support. Working closely with leaders in the field of AD/HD research, diagnosis and treatment, CHADD offers its members and the public information they can trust."

Description: "The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) is an international, 501©(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the study and treatment of dyslexia. The IDA was first established nearly 50 years ago to continue the pioneering work of Dr. Samuel T. Orton, who was one of the first to identify dyslexia and its remediation."

Description: "The interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and children.

Description: "The Learning Disabilities Association of America is a national, non-profit organization. Our purpose is to advance the education and general welfare of children and adults of normal or potentially normal intelligence who manifest disabilities of a perceptual, conceptual, or coordinative nature."

Description: "NAMI is dedicated to the eradication of mental illnesses and to the improvement of the quality of life of those whose lives are affected by these diseases. NAMI will accomplish its mission through the following:

Description: "The National Attention Deficit Disorder Association is an organization built around the needs of adults and young adults with ADD and ADHD. We seek to serve individuals with ADD, as well as those who love, live with, teach, counsel, and treat those who do.

Description: "The National Center for Learning Disabilities is one of the foremost not-for-profit organizations committed to improving the lives of those affected by learning disabilities."

Description: Established in 1978, the National Center for the Blind assists the blind all over the country to improve the quality of their lives through programs such as public education, scholarships for the blind, specialized assistance, seminars about blindness, information for seniors about vision loss, and more.

Description: "The National Information Center on Deafness (NICD) is a centralized source of accurate, up-to-date, objective information on topics dealing with deafness and hearing loss. NICD responds to a wide range of questions received from the general public, deaf and hard of hearing people, their families, and professionals who work with them . NICD collects, develops, and disseminates information on deafness, hearing loss, and services and programs related to people with hearing loss."

Description: "The NIFL is funding two closely related initiatives on learning disabilities, an issue that cuts across all areas of literacy concern. The over-all purpose of these two collaborating initiatives is to build the capacity of adult education and literacy service delivery systems and other human resource development systems to meet the educational and training needs of adults with identified or suspected learning disabilities."

Description: "The mission of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is to diminish the burden of mental illness through research. This public health mandate demands we harness powerful scientific tools to achieve better understanding, treatment, and eventually prevention of mental illness."

Description: This site contains links to information about organizations which support specific disabilities.

Description: "Providing services for nearly half a century, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) is a national nonprofit organization that serves people who cannot read standard print because of visual, perceptual, or other physical disability."

Description: " For 50 years, United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) has been committed to change and progress for persons with disabilities. The national organization and its nationwide network of 150 affiliate partners strive to ensure the inclusion of persons with disabilities in every facet of society - from the web to the workplace, from the classroom to the community. UCPs mission is to advance the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities, through our commitment to the principles of independence, inclusion, and self-determination.

Description: "This site contains information on many topics pertaining to parenting and teaching a child with visual impairments." It is a guide to Internet resources about visual impairments, for parents and teachers.

Description: The University of Louisville Ekstrom Library Government Publications, Office of Correctional Education's Web site contains information and links to various federal agencies related to correctional education. Links of particular interest are: Federal Agencies, Federal Bureau of Prisons, National Institute of Corrections, U.S. Department of Education, and U.S. Department of Justice.

Description: "The OJJDP Web site is designed to provide information and resources on both general areas of interest about juvenile justice and delinquency including conferences, funding opportunities, and new publications and the comprehensive strategy as a framework for communities to combat youth crime."

Description: ASTD is the leading resource on workplace learning and performance issues, providing information, research, analysis, and practical information derived from the knowledge and experience of its members, its conferences and publications, and the coalitions and partnerships it has built through research and policy work.

Description: "Our intention was to gather together a group of experts in order to help us to clarify our goals in terms of data-collection efforts and to develop recommendations for our funding agency, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, as well as other federal agencies and national efforts in the area of data on disability."

Description: This government institute is responsible for guiding, funding, and disseminating research about disability.

Description: "The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. NIH works towards that mission by: conducting research in it's own laboratories; support the research of non-Federal scientists in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country and abroad; helping in the training of research investigators; and fostering communication of biomedical information."

Description: "The National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) is a library and information center on disability and rehabilitation. Funded since 1979 by the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, NARIC collects and disseminates the results of federally funded research projects. NARIC's document collection, which also includes commercially published books, journal articles, and audiovisuals, grows at a rate of 250 new documents per month. NARIC's information specialists serve thousands of patrons per year. We are committed to serving anyone, professional or lay person, who is interested in disability and rehabilitation, including consumers, family members, health professionals, educators, rehabilitation counselors, students, librarians, administrators, and researchers. We offer a wide variety of services, and there are several ways to use NARIC services."

Description: This site contains links to a large number of Internet resources related to disability.

Description: This site catalogues Internet sites on disability by subject.

Description: Disability Net is a woldwide information and news service for all disabled people and people with an interest in disability issues.

Description: "This is a resource for Parents, Teachers, Instructional Aides, and students to look at the various Special Education sites that are available on the web. The goal of this page is to help educate and inform individuals about the many areas of Special Education. These resources have topics from A to Z and include areas of Technology, Government Funding, Employment, and Parent Groups."

Description: "Welcome to the Internet Resources for Special Children (IRSC) web site. The IRSC web site is dedicated to communicating information relating to the needs of children with disABILITIES on a global basis I order to:

Description: "TrackStar guides a user (student) through a set of sites (URLs). With this tool, you can make a list of sites that is always visible and therefor accessible to the user throughout the entire lesson. In addition, there are annotations that accompany every site. These annotations are comments on what to look for or a question that can be answered by browsing that particular site."