Links To International Disability Sites

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• Easy Access Australia - This website takes orders for Easy Access Australia by Bruce M. Cameron, Australia's first travel guide for people with disabilities.
  http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bruceeaa



• EasyWalks in Israel - This is a site for ordering EasyWalks in Israel: Sites and Stories, by Aviva Bar-Am, a user-friendly volume of non-strenuous strolls, easy walks and super-easy hikes.
  http://www.israeltravels.com/easy.htm



• Electric Edge - The online version of Ragged edge magazine has articles that cover numerous topics, one of them being "what it�s like to be a person with a disability in the 20th century". The site has stories about the experience of disability from all over the US.
  http://www.ragged-edge-mag.com/



• Emerging Horizons: Accessible Travel News - Emerging Horizons is a consumer-oriented magazine about accessible travel. Its primary focus is on travel for people with mobility disabilities - everybody from wheelchair-users to slow walkers. Lots of access information, resources, news and travel tips - and no advertising. Available in print and online.
  http://www.emerginghorizons.com



• EnableNet - EnableNet is being developed as a one stop site for information on disability and a meeting place for people interested in disability issues. Come on in, have a look around, get involved, have some fun...
  http://www.enable.net.au



• Epic Enabled - Epic Enabled specializes in group, camping & adventure travel in Southern Africa for people with physical disabilities.
  http://www.epic-enabled.com



• Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria, Australia - EpiNet is the website of the Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria. Its aim is to take full advantage of the internet in bringing people reliable information about epilepsy. The website also enables you to have input yourself; thus, there are a number of discussion forums where you can post your own messages, comment on other people's messages and hopefully get the practical information that you are after.
  http://www.epinet.org.au



• Epilepsy Links - This site has hundreds of links to sites about research, resources, health information and many more topics.
  http://www.canddwilson.com/epil/epibook.html



• Equal Opportunity Publications - Since 1968, Equal Opportunity Publications, Inc. (EOP) has led the way from affirmative action to diversity recruitment by publishing career magazines for women, members of minority groups, and people with disabilities. "First in diversity, best in results" is the slogan that summarizes EOP's successful record of helping job-seekers from underrepresented groups find employment and in aiding companies and government agencies eager to recruit from the diversified workforce.
  http://www.eop.com



• Esmerel's Collection of Disability Resources - Contains links to a variety of resources.
  http://www.esmerel.org



• Facilitated Communication Institute (FCI) - Facilitated Communication is an alternative way of expression for people who can�t speak or whose speech is very limited and who cannot point reliably. The FCI conducts research, training, seminars, and public education. It was created as a way of uniting the research community, with the people with disabilities and their families, and practicing professionals to examine, learn about, and share information on facilitated communication. On the site there are bibliographies and abstracts, articles from the facilitated communication digest, position statements on facilitated position statements on facilitated communication, abstracts of conference presentations, and information on the upcoming conference.
  http://soeweb.syr.edu/thefci/



• Federal Office of Compliance - The Office of Compliance was established to implement and enforce the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995. Known as the CAA, the Act generally extends the rights and protections of 11 employment and labor laws to covered employees in the legislative branch of the federal government.
  http://www.compliance.gov/



• General Accounting Office - Tracks information on disability and SSA policies. The General Accounting Office is the investigative arm of Congress. Charged with examining matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of public funds, GAO performs audits and evaluations of Government programs and activities.
  http://www.gao.gov/



• Genesis II Foot - A progressive prosthetist founded MICA Corporation with the objective of designing, developing and manufacturing products, components and tool systems for Orthotic & Prosthetic Professionals. With the opening of MICA Corporation "Power Prosthetics" was dubbed the slogan of the product development engineers and prosthetists. Clients, prosthetists, and engineers work together a MICA to create the following progressive forward thinking utilities for the P&O; industry.
  http://www.micacorp.com



• Gimp on the Go - This is a comprehensive resource for travellers with disabilities. Information is conveyed through travel reviews, tips and short articles, a resource area, photo gallery and bulletin boards. Reader submissions give the review section a worldly perspective, and an interactive forum allows fellow travellers to discuss pertinent topics.
  http://www.gimponthego.com



• Graphic Artists Guild Foundation - The gem of this site is its downloadable Disability Access Symbols, available as TIFF or EPS files. The Graphic Artists Guild Foundation makes this artwork available for promoting and publicizing accessibility of places, programs and other activities. Includes symbols for access for wheelchair users, people with vision disabilities, users of assistive listening sysytems, and more.
  http://www.gag.org/resources/das.html



• Hadley School for the Blind - Hadley is a not-for-profit, distance education school serving blind individuals and their families. In addition to courses for blind individuals, it offer programs for parents of blind children and family members of blind adults. It offers more than 90 courses to almost 10,000 students around the world, all completely free of charge. The website provides information about Hadley programs as well as profiles of some of the students. It is available in graphic, low vision and text-only versions.
  http://www.hadley-school.org



• Half the Planet.com - This website of "disability information for the disability community" includes a bookstore, bulletin boards, classifieds, resources, and a collection of articles organized into categories. This is a big site requiring a lot of "clicks" to find what you are looking for, but a search engine makes it easier.
  http://www.halftheplanet.com



• Handi-Capable Reporter - The monthly printed newsletters and this web site are guides to news of medical findings and studies, upcoming events and to restaurants and other public establishments that are accommodating. Handi-Capable Reporter contains informative articles to help with everyday life. Written by experts in their field, these articles provide information such as who to see for independent living equipment, shoes, cooling devices, foods, food supplements, hand-controllable driving devices, van-conversions, wheelchair lifts, adaptive living aids and etceteras.
  http://www.mhcr.com



• Headway (National Head Injuries Association) - This website contains a wide range of information on the subject of traumatic brain injury - the medical term for 'head injury'. Where Headway produces a publication giving further information on the subject, this will be indicated.
  http://www.headway.org.uk/

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