Advocacy

Americans with Disabilities Act

Americans with Disabilities Act, Document Center, ADA Statute, Regulations, ADAAG (Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines), Federally Reviewed Tech Sheets, and Other Assistance Documents

People First Language

Guidelines for Reporting and Writing About People with Disabilities, University of Kansas and endorsed by over 100 national associations (available in large print, braille, Spanish) .pdf file

A Way with Words: Guidelines and Appropriate Terminology For the Portrayal of Persons With Disabilities, Secretary of State, Canada

Understanding Disabilities: Examining Issues of Language and Portrayal, MKTan

Words with Dignity and Disability Etiquette, Paraquad, Inc., St. Louis, MO

Appropriate Language in Discussing Mental Illness, C Hawkins-Shepard, Ph.D.

People First Language commentary, K Snow , Parents in Motion

People first language, Utah Governor's Council for People with Disabilities

People First Language, K Snow, Central Massachusetts Community Gateway

Talking About Disability: A Guide to Using Appropriate Language, Access Center for Independent Living, Dayton, OH

People First Language, Examples to Share, K Snow, , Missouri Department of Mental Health

When Referring to a Person with a Disability, Liberty Resources

Think "People First", Public Images Network

People First Language, Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, text only version, and en espanol

People First Language Examples to Use and to Share, K Snow

People First Language, Widner University, PN

Language in publications, Editor's Note, July 1997, Physical Therapy

Search for Non-Offensive Language, The Arc, Dallas, TX

What's in a Name?, Michigan Commission on Disability Concerns, Lansing, MI

People First!!!, Differently Abled Associates Incorporated, 1996, J M Kratzer

Resolution Supporting "People First" Language, American Network of Community Options and Resources (Formerly the National Association of Private Residential Resources)

Disability Related Language, California State University, Northridge

Disability Related Language, Messiah College, San Antonio, TX

Guidelines for Speaking and Writing about People with Disabilities, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

Quality of Internet Health Information

Etiquette

Disability Etiquette, Memphis Center for Independent Living, Memphis TN

Etiquette, Easter Seal Society

Accessibility to Internet Web Pages

Make Your Web Pages Accessible

Center for Information Technology Accommodation

Trace Research and Development Center, University of Wisconsin, Disability Resources

Capper Foundation, Accessibility Resources

How to increase online text size

Tools

Test your webpage or website for accessibility: WEB Metrics or Bobby 3.1 Analysis or W3C HTML Validator or CSS Validator

Large Print - display page of text in large print without reconfiguring a browser

Tablin: HTML Table linearizer, for reading line-by-line (e.g. columned text read across page out-of-order, reading sentences on same row from different columns as one sentence)

JAWS (Jobs Access With Speech), reader program for blind or visually impaired

Lynx software

ALTifier Web Accessibility Enhancement Tool, useful for images and other HTML tags without textual alternative, to make accessible to screen readers, non-visual/text-only browsers and Braille readers. Adds alternate descriptions for tags

Optimizing Adobe® PDF Files for Accessibility and Tools

Keyboard for single-handed typists - Dvorak keyboard, PC and Mac computers

Configure Win95 [Control Panel, then Keyboard, then Languages, then Properties]

Mac software free at http://shareware.cnet.com/

Also see: http://www.ccsi.com/~mbrooks/dvorak/dvorak.html

Voice Recognition Software Programs - allow computer to recognize & transcribe spoken words

Dragon Naturally Speaking, Dragon (800) 437-2466

Via Voice, IBM (800) 825-5263

Voice Express, Lernout and Hauspie (800) 380-1234

Translation Programs

TranslateNow, foreignword.com, over 25 systems for over 38 different languages including Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Belarusan, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chechen, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilongo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maori, Mongolian, Norwegian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Rotuman, Russian, Sanskrit, Sardinian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Zulu)
Free Translation (English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish), text or web page
Translation service, AltaVista, Babelfish (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, English)
Babylon translation program, free (English to Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Hebrew, Chinese)
I Love Languages (formerly Human Languages Page), dictionaries, translation programs, cultural resources (Spanish, German, French, Russian, Vietnamese, sign language, other)
DictSearch, foreignword.com, 230 dictionaries for 69 source languages into 73 target languages

Fonts for other languages:

Chinese

Chinese, Japanese, Korean

Russian

Russian

Greek

Greek

Greek

Hebrew

Ethical, Legal, Social, Public Policy Issues and Genetics: (policy papers, testing, insurance, privacy, health insurance portability, Birth Defects Prevention Act, other)

Federal Advocacy and Information Sites

Also See:

National organizations information on genetic conditions or birth defects
Information for Siblings and Family Members

To locate a genetic counselor or clinical geneticist:

Professional Genetics Societies

Genetic clinics, centers, departments

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