Disability Links
- Accessibility
- Adaptive Technology
- Advocacy
- Children
- Disability Associations and Organizations
- Education
- Employment
- Financial Resources
- Government
- Health and Wellness
- Housing
- Human Rights
- Independent Living
- International Links
- Journals / Magazines
- Leisure, Sports & Recreation
- Mental Health
- Research
- Seniors
- Travel
- Women
- Advisory Committee on Barrier Free Transportation:
www.trans.gov.ab.ca/Planning/BarrierFree.asp - Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA): www.cta-otc.gc.ca
- Calgary Transit (Access Calgary): www.accesscalgary.ca/
- Edmonton Transit
- www.enablelink.org (click on Transportation for a variety of related links)
ACCESSIBILITY: Communication
- Council on Access to Information for Print Disabled Canadians:
www.nlc-bnc.ca/accessinfo/
- Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC): www.utoronto.ca/atrc/
- Closing the Gap: www.closingthegap.com
(magazine about computer technology in special education and rehabilitation) - Industry Canada's Assistive Devices Industry Office (ADIO)
- Alberta Association for Community Living (AACL): www.aacl.org
- Alberta Committee of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD): www.accd.net
- Canadian Abilities Foundation: www.enablelink.org
Has a list of advocacy and support groups, grouped according to province - Edmonton Advisory Board on Services for Persons with Disabilities
- Ability Online Support Network: www.ablelink.org
- Resources for Children with Disabilities (formally Handicapped Children's Services): www.child.gov.ab.ca/whatwedo/disabilities
DISABILITY ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
- Alberta Association for Adult Literacy: www.nald.ca/aaal.htm
- Alberta Association for Community Living: www.aacl.org
- Alberta Association of the Deaf: www.deafalberta.org
- Alberta Brain Injury Help Line: www.abihelp.org
- Alberta Committee of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD): www.accd.net
- Alcohol Related Birth Injury (ARBI): www.arbi.org
- Association for the Neurologically Disabled of Canada (AND): www.and.ca
- Canadian Association of the Deaf (CAD): www.cad.ca
- Canadian Injured Workers Alliance (CIWA): www.ciwa.ca
- Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA, Alberta chapter): www.cmha.ab.ca
- Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB, Alberta chapter): www.cnib.ca/divisions/alberta/
- Canadian Paraplegic Association (Alberta chapter): www.canparaplegic.org/ab
- Cerebral Palsy Association Alberta: www.cpalberta.com
- Chrysalis: An Alberta Society for Citizens with Disabilities: www.chrysalis.ab.ca
- Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD): www.ccdonline.ca
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services: www.dhhs.org
- Easter Seal Ability Council: www.esmod.ab.ca
- Edmonton Epilepsy Association
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Community Resource Center:
www.come-over.to/FASCRC/
- Multiple Sclerosis Society (Alberta Chapter): www.mssociety.ca/alberta/default.htm
- Muscular Dystrophy: www.mdac.ca
- Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Northern Alberta: www.sbhana.org
- Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Southern Alberta: www.sbhasa.ca
- Wildrose Polio Support Society and Southern Alberta Post Polio Support Society: www.polioalberta.ca
- Alberta Learning, Students with Special Needs: www.learning.gov.ab.ca/k_12/specialneeds
- Alberta Learning, Student Health Initiative: www.learning.gov.ab.ca/shi
- Disabled Student Services can be found at many of Alberta’s colleges and universities, including the following:
- National Education Association of Disabled Students (NEADS): www.neads.ca and their online resource centre at www.neads.ca/en/norc/ for a comprehensive guide to scholarships and grants for students with disabilities.
- Grande Prairie Regional College,Specialized Resources for Students with Disabilities: http://www.gprc.ab.ca/alumni/caer/specialized.html#disabilities
- Grant MacEwan College, Services to Students with Disabilities:
www.macewan.ca/web/services/disabilities/home/index.cfm?
- NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology), Services for Students with Disabilities: www.nait.ab.ca/counselling
- NorQuest College, Learning Support Services: www.norquest.ca/resources/lss.htm
- Red Deer College, Services for Students with Disabilities:
www.rdc.ab.ca/counsel_learn/?disability_services.html
- SAIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology), Services for Students with Disabilities: www.sait.ab.ca/academicsupport/cals/services/serve4.htm
- University of Alberta, Specialized Support and Disability Services:
www.ualberta.ca/~ssd
- University of Calgary, Disability Resource Centre:
www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/Others/DRC/
- University of Lethbridge Services for Students with Disabilities:
www.uleth.ca/reg-cou/DisabilityInfo/disability_home.html
- Canada Business Service Centres: www.cbsc.org/
- Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW): www.ccrw.org
- Duty to Accommodate: www.albertahumanrights.ab.ca/publications
- EmployAbilities: www.employabilities.ab.ca
- Human Resources and Employment (Alberta Government): www.gov.ab.ca/hre
- Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI): www.vrri.org
- WORKink Alberta: ab.workink.com
(WORKink is a virtual employment centre that provides work seekers with disabilities access to job and employment opportunities using the internet)
- Alberta Works: www3.gov.ab.ca/hre/albertaworks/
- Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH)
- Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Disability Benefits
- Special Needs Assistance for Seniors
- Canada Benefits: www.CanadaBenefits.gc.ca
(Government of Canada site where persons with disabilities can access information regarding various benefit programs offered by the government of Canada) - Government of Alberta: www.gov.ab.ca/
- Government of Canada: canada.gc.ca
- Persons with Disabilities On-Line: www.pwd-online.ca/en/menu.jsp
(Government of Canada site where persons with disabilities and their caregivers can access information regarding programs, services, resources, etc. offered by the government of Canada) - Subcommittee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities (federal government)
- Alberta Aids to Daily Living
- Alberta Health and Wellness: www.health.gov.ab.ca/
- Steadward Centre for Personal and Physical Achievement: www.steadwardcentre.org
(offers instructional programs and workshops in fitness, lifestyle, and physical activity for groups and individuals who have a permanent physical disability)
- Accessible Housing Society: www.ahscalgary.ca
- Calgary Homeless Society: www.calgaryhomeless.org
(extensive listing of housing options for persons with disabilities in Calgary) - Residential Access Modification Program (formerly known as the Home Adaptation Program)
- Horizon Housing: www.horizonhousing.ab.ca (aims to provide appropriate housing for persons with mental illness and other special needs)
- Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program (RRAP):
http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/ab/noho/noho_011.cfm
- Council of Canadians with Disabilities: www.ccdonline.ca
- Disabled Peoples' International (DPI): www.dpi.org
- Duty to Accommodate: www.albertahumanrights.ab.ca/publications
- United Nations' Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities: www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/dissre00.htm
- United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons: www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/72.htm
- United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons:
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/m_mental.htm
- United Nations' Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care: www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/68.htm
- United Nations' Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: Towards a Society for All in the Twenty-first Century:
www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disimpe0.htm
- Canadian Association for Independent Living Centres: www.cailc.ca
- Disabled Peoples' International (DPI): www.dpi.org
- World Institute on Disability (WID): www.wid.org
- Abilities Magazine: www.enablelink.org/abilities.html
- Active Living Alliance: www.ala.ca
- Between Friends Club: www.betweenfriends.ab.ca/
Between Friends Camp Bonaventure: www.betweenfriends.ab.ca/programs_camp_bonaventure.html - Canadian Paralympic Association: www.paralympic.ca
- Canadian Paralympic Committee: www.paralympic.com
- Canadian Wheelchair Basketball Association: www.cwba.ca
- Canadian Wheelchair Sport Association: www.cwsa.ca
- Disabled Sailing Association of Alberta: www.dsaalberta.org
- Disabled Skiers Association of Canada (Alberta chapter): www.cadsalberta.ca/main.php
- Easter Seals Camp Horizon
- Paralympic Sports Association: www.parasports.net
- Steadward Centre: www.steadwardcentre.org
- Alberta Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health:
www.mentalhealthalliance.ab.ca
- Canadian Mental Health Association (Alberta Chapter):
www.cmha.ab.ca
- Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research:
www.med.ualberta.ca/acicr
- Canadian Centre on Disability Studies-Disability Information Network:
http://www.disabilitystudies.ca/din.html
- G. Allen Roeher Institute: www.roeher.ca/default.htm
- J.P.Das Developmental Disabilities Centre
- Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI): www.vrri.org
- World Institute on Disability (WID): www.wid.org
- Alberta Seniors Benefit Program
- Seniors' Solutions: www.albertaseniors.com
- Special Needs Assistance for Seniors
- Canadian Transportation Agency: www.cta.gc.ca
- VIA Rail, Services for Special Needs on VIA: www.viarail.ca/planner/en_plan_beso.html
- DisAbled Women's Network (DAWN): dawn.thot.net
