Miscellaneous Resources for Disabled People

There is a whole host of information available on the Internet about disabilities and I have only managed to touch the very tip of the iceberg, with links to government agencies, rights for disabled people, federal and state benefits, disability organizations, forums and social groups, disabilities and children, disabled sports and travelling as a disabled person. In this section, I will be providing you with links to portals of information about disabled resources, so that you might stumble on some more helpful gems for yourself.

First of all Wikipedia is always a great first port of call. It has a load of information of all sorts of disabilities, and of course all the pages are interlinked, so you will find lots of different things just by browsing, and there are external links as well. A good starting point where disabilities are concerned is this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disability

Information portals like http://www.disabilityonline.com/, http://www.makoa.org/ and http://www.disabilityresources.org/ have hundreds of links to other disability resources. I find a great strategy is when you find a website that you like, see if it has a links page, because changes are if you like the site you may well like the sites that the website links to as well, for example look at the great links this site has - http://www.e-bility.com/links/.

Another good information portal that I particularly like is http://www.disability-resource.com/disabilityresource.html. What I like about is it list links by type of disability, and has quite an extensive list of links for each disability type.

Other places you should look for disability resources are directories. The Yahoo, Google and Dmoz directories all have lots of disability related links to explore: http://d3.dir.ac2.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Disabilities/ http://www.google.com/Top/Society/Disabled/ http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Disabled/

Then if you’d like just general articles and information about disabilities, I would visit article sites like Ezine articles, and enter the search term I’d like more information on. You can be as broad or narrow as you’d like with your keywords like ‘dating and disabled’ or ‘disability’. Following the links in the resource boxes has lead me to find all sorts of interesting links I would not have found in the search engines http://www.ezinearticles.com

I think that lot should keep you busy! I hope that from looking at just a few of these links that that pretty much any question that you have about disabilities can be answered online, and that any support that you need can be found. The Internet does allow you to reach out in ways that aren’t always physically possible in the offline world.