The U.S. Department of Education’s Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) website brings together IDEA information and resources from the Department and their grantees. Students, parents, educators, service providers, and grantees will all benefit from the valuable information on this website.
Find information and explore resources on infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities here. It’s pages connect you to the Department of Education Home page, The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), and the list of IDEA State Contacts.
All these websites are dedicated to the education of children with disabilities and their families.
[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle] [otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD) ” opened=”closed”]AHEAD: an organization for higher education professionals. We envision a postsecondary experience that embraces disability and is free from barriers.
Progressive, visionary leadership, grounded in social justice principles guides AHEAD toward our goals.
- Developing, sharing, and providing relevant knowledge
- Strategically engaging in actions that enhance higher educational professionals’ effectiveness
- Advocating on behalf of its membership, their institutions, and their work
- Ensuring full, effective participation by individuals with disabilities in every aspect of the postsecondary experience.
Core Values
- Diversity: We believe in creating and promoting diverse educational communities to foster the exchange of ideas and perspectives, offering the opportunity for individual growth and developing a forum that honors the disability experience.
- Equity: Recognizing that equality is NOT the same as equity, we believe in developing resources and fostering attitudes that provide a truly equitable experience that is responsive to individuals’ strengths, weaknesses, and differences.
- Respect: We believe in providing everyone with an opportunity to express individual thoughts, feelings, ideas, and needs; we listen and honor the individual’s right to be heard, even if we do not agree.
- Inclusivity: We believe in creating an inclusive community that encourages participation of all members, colleagues, practitioners, students, and stakeholders in an environment of mutual respect, opportunity for development, and honor of personal experience.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/resources/college-planning-with-physical-disabilities/
BestColleges.com partners with HigherEducation.com to provide students with direct connections to schools and programs suiting their educational goals through our program rankings. Our rankings are intended to inform and guide prospective students toward institutions that provide a quality education and a meaningful learning experience at an affordable cost.
We also host a wide array of free college planning, financial aid, and career resources to help all students get the most from their education and prepare for the world after college.
Our planning guide for students with disabilities provides information on accommodations, assistive technology, scholarships, and other useful resources.
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The DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) Center is dedicated to empowering people with disabilities through technology and education. Promoting awareness and accessibility—in both the classroom and the workplace—to maximize the potential of individuals with disabilities. This makes our communities more vibrant, diverse, and inclusive
The DO-IT Center strives to:
- increase the success of people with disabilities in challenging academic programs and careers;
- promote the application of universal design to physical spaces, information technology, instruction, and services;
- freely distribute online content, publications, and videos for use in presentations, exhibits, and the classroom; and
- provide resources for students with disabilities, K-12 educators, postsecondary faculty and administrators, librarians, employers, parents, and mentors.
https://www.inclusionproject.org/
The National Inclusion Project operates on three core beliefs:
- EVERY child can participate,
- EVERY child can make a friend and
- EVERY child can succeed.
With those beliefs in mind, we’ve made it our mission to make the inclusion of children with disabilities the EXPECTATION, not the exception.
We work with community organizations and recreational programs, providing them with the training, tools, and support they need so that children with disabilities can be included in ALL of their activities and programs.
https://phdisabled.wordpress.com
Our goal is to create a space for PhD students with a disability or chronic illness to share their experiences. It is only by sharing these experiences that we realise that we who walk this path are not alone. It is only by sharing these experiences, by beginning to talk openly about them, that we can hope that things will one day improve.
We welcome submissions from all PhD students, past, present or otherwise, on all aspects of the experience at the intersection of academia, disability, and chronic illness.
[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle] [otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”WrightsLaw” opened=”closed”]Parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, reliable information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities. A combination of free information, training and materials for sale are available.
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[otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS)” opened=”closed”]The National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS), has had the mandate to support full access to education and employment for post-secondary students and graduates with disabilities across Canada since 1986.
Our organization focuses on three core Strategic Program areas for students:
- Debt reduction
- Experiences in class and on campus
- Student and graduate employment
NEADS also provides ongoing expert advice at all governmental levels. We work together with post-secondary stakeholders, non-governmental organizations, employers, campus disability service providers and communities. Together we strive to improve opportunities in higher education and in jobs for persons with disabilities in Canada.
We also have a fully searchable and accessible financial aid database at www.disabilityawards.ca. It has information on public funding from national, provincial and territorial government programs. Private funding programs include around 350 disability specific sources; bursaries, scholarships and awards. These are offered through colleges and universities, private sector funders and non-governmental organizations.
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