Disability World Links: Health and Rehabilitation
- Accessible Fitness
- A completely wheelchair accessible gym located in Santa Clara, California specializing in working with people of all levels of ability.
Opened in 2002 by former Mr. America bodybuilding champion after he was diagnosed of Multiple. Sclerosis.
"If you believe you can move mountains"
- Arka Foundation
- The Arka Foundation is a voluntary, non-profit and non-government organisation in Malta that promotes the welfare of people with special needs and of their families. Whilst providing them with a variety of services, it aims at creating and fostering a positive attitude towards disability.
- Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau
- Based in Bologna, AIFO is an Italian non-governmental organization working in projects and training courses concerning community based rehabilitation in poor countries and those affected by leprosy. Also houses the electronic version of the Asia Pacific Disability & Rehabilitation Journal and other publications on CBR, available via PDF downloads.
- CIRRIE
- The U.S. based Center for International Rehabilitation Research, Information & Exchange, featuring international listings of conferences, rehab centers, & rehab research.
- Comunidad de lesion medular- SCI comunity in Spanish
- Sitio internet dedicado a la lesion medular, en el que encontraras la ultima informacion en cuanto a rehabilitacion e investigacion, y cuya funcion es la de proporcionar un espacio a las personas relaciondas con la lesion para intercambiar informacion e interactuar con personas en la misma situacion.
- Exceptional Nurse
- A site dedicated to the inclusion of people with disabilities in the nursing profession, offering information to nurses, students, and educators.
- ExceptionalNurse.com
- A nonprofit resource network for nurses and nursing students with disabilities.
- FUVIRESE
- The Foundation for Life, Reality and Service, an organization founded in Baños, Ecuador in 1993 by a small group of adults with disabilities living without any fundamental rehabilitation services or basic mobility access in their community.
- Handicap International
- Headquartered in France, working primarily in developing and poor countries on three priorities, "treatment, prevention and integration."
- Health Wrights
- Site devoted to community based rehabilitation, assistive devices for use in developing countries and a collection of books and papers written by David Werner, including the classic Disabled Village Children.
- Healthlink Worldwide
- A UK based site, now providing SOURCE, an international information center supporting health & disability activities worldwide.
- National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
- NIDRR provides leadership and support for a comprehensive program of research related to the rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities. All of our programmatic efforts are aimed at improving the lives of individuals with disabilities from birth through adulthood (NIDRR funds Disability World).
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