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Disability World Links: Education
  • Accesible Book Collection - Accessible Book Collection is a nonprofit organization with the primary mission of providing high interest, low reading level books in digital format to persons with disabilities.
  • Beyond Affliction: the Disability History Project - The companion web site to a four hour radio documentary on disability history developed by National Public Radio, featuring "interviews, images, and texts- from which the on-air programs were developed".
  • Daisy Consortium - Site features detailed reports from developing and industrialized countries on their participation in Daisy, the international consortium for the new digital talking book standard.
  • Disability Research Institute - The DRI is a partnership between the U.S. Social Security Admnistration and the College of Applied Life Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with an array of activities including research, dissemination of information, and training and education.
  • Disability Studies for Teachers - This website contains lesson plans and materials designed to help teachers integrate disability studies into social studies, history, literature, and related subjects in grades 6-12.  The plans and materials also can be adapted for use in postsecondary education.
  • Educación Especial Enlaces - "Información sobre deficiencias, recursos, organizaciones y enlaces vinculados con la educación especial (España)."
  • Enabling Education Network - The site of the Enabling Education Network, promoting educational inclusion of all marginalized groups. You can also search through their extensive Portuguese and Spanish documentation on the practice of inclusive education.
  • Eurydice - The site of the Information Network on Education in Europe, featuring 2003 report on Special Needs Education in Europe. (English, French, German)
  • Inclusion Research Institute - The IRI disseminates educational & technological innovations enabling independence of people with disabilities in schools, community & employment.
  • WAPD-Chess-Chapter - Chess-Chapter of "World Association of Persons with Disabilities.Play online-chess in the forum an learn it.

  

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