WV Family Support Program

This is an opportunity for families of children with disabilities to apply for up to $1,000 in assistance to purchase equipment or other needs.
http://www.wvdhhr.org/bhhf/famsup1.asp  

Web References:

• Academic Software Incorporated Home Page . This company produces and markets assistive technology such as switches and other adaptive devices.

• DISABILITY-RELATED INFORMATION PAGE   This Web Page was constructed by Steven L. Fullmer at the West Virginia Rehabilitation Research & Training Center, and it contains one of the most extensive sets of links to disability sites available. It you are looking for information on a disability-related topic, you'll find a link here.

• Special Ed Law Home Page for basic legal information of use to special educators, parents and their advisors in meeting federal and state requirements for the education of students with disabilities. Includes the complete text of IDEA and other laws and includes links to other disability-related sites.

• SERI: SPECIAL EDUCATION RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET for a categorized and annotated list of disability-related sites.

• PITSCO'S LAUNCH TO SPECIAL EDUCATION RESOURCES for a large number of links to sites related to special education .

• PARENTS HELPING PARENTS HOME PAGE a FREE public service that provides a searchable on-line human services resource directory with a focus on the needs of children; condition & disability files and shareware; and much more.

• Kidsource Online Disabilities Page This page lists sites related to physical disability and to other disabilities. Each site is rated with a star system from one to five stars.

Web Accessibility for the Disabled:

• Web Content Accessibility -Guidelines
• Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST): Bobby
• Federal IT Accessibility Initiative
• Applying the ADA to the Internet: A Web Accessibility Standard
• National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
• Department of Justice Section 508 Home Page
• WAI Accessibility Guidelines: Page Authoing
• Southeast Disability and Business Technical assistance Center (SE DBTAC)
• U.S. Department of Justice: Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility
• 2/9/2000 Committee on the Judiciary: Applicability of ADA to Private Internet Sites
• US. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
• National Center to Improve Practice (NCIP)
• National Center for Dissemination of Disability Research
• Allicance for Technology Access
• National Rehabilitation Information Center

Speech Pathology Links:

• http://www.herring.org/speech.html

• http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/speech.html

• http://members.aol.com/MAVAH

"All Children are Special"