Disability World Links: Research
- Disability INFormation Resources
- The aim of DINF is to provide an information resource for supporting the study of health and welfare topics for people with disabilities. The information is collected from many Japanese and international sources. There is a special emphasis on the role technologies can play in improving access to information for disabled persons.
- Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement
- University of California at Berkeley's unique website dedicated to documenting the U.S. disability rights and independent living movement through primary sources, consisting mostly of oral histories and videoed interviews with leaders
- Disability Studies and Research Institute
- The site of the Australian based Disability Studies and Research Institute, emphasizing
research into and education about disability issues from a social perspective.
- Disability: Federal Survey Definitions, Measurements, and Estimates
- A T A Disability definitions are important for federal and state policies, programs, and planning, as well as for individuals with disabilities and their families. How federal and state programs define disability determines who will qualify for and how they will receive benefits from Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and state and local programs.
- Duke University Program on Psychiatric Advance Directives
- The Duke University Program on Psychiatric Advance Directives is a resource center for information, toolkits, links, laws, statutes, and history related to Psychiatric Advance Directives and Health Care Agents for persons with mental illnesses.
- ERIC
- The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The new ERIC online system, released September 1, 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.
- Euthanasia and Biotechnology
- A site operated by a 'thalidomider' and research scientist at the University of Calgary, Canada, offering a wealth of information about bioethics and disability.
- National Alliance for Autism Research
- Established in 1994 by parents of children with autism concerned about the limited amount of funding available for autism research, NAAR was created in a spirit of optimism and excitement over the opportunities for accelerating the pace of autism research.
- 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).
- NIDMAR
- Canadian based National Institute of Disability Management & Research, focused on reducing human, social & economic costs of disability.
- Program for Disability Research
- The Program for Disability Research (PDR) is a constituent unit of the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and a unit of the Disability Research Institute (DRI). The DRI, composed of a consortium of universities, is the first research institute financed by the United States Social Security Administration to conduct investigations in the area of disability.
- Washington City Group on Disability Statistics
- Founded in 2001, the Washington CityGroup on Disability Statistics is a network of researchers from more than 30 countries working under UN auspices to refine methodology and improve information exchange about disability statistics. Site hosted by U.S. Centers for Disease Control, reports on the meetings and has numerous up-to-date documents in PDF format.
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