 | A Consumer's Guide to the Lanterman Act
This book is about a California law that says people with developmental disabilities & their families have a right to services & supports. It is written by, and for self-advocates. |
| A Parenting Guide for Families of Children with Disabilities: Developing Social Skills Towards Independent Living
This book helps families decide how to raise their child with a disability. It is easy to follow |
| ADA & Youth Issues Handouts
PACER staff have written and updated articles on topics of interest to families and Youth related to their rights under the American's with Disabilities Act. All articles are available on the web.
|
| ADA Quiz Book & CD-ROM
The ADA Quiz Book 3RD EDITION contains a collection of puzzles, questions, quizzes, and case studies on the ADA & accessible information technology |
| Advocating for Yourself & Others
A fact sheet about being an advocate for yourself and others. You can download it as a PDF file. |
| Ask and Tell: Self-Advocacy and Disclosure for People on the Autism Spectrum
This book helps people who have autism learn to advocate for themselves. |
| Aspergirls Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome
This books covers many aspects of the lives of girls who have autism. |
| Atlas of Literacy and Disability
This book has maps of Canada broken into small areas. Each map shows the number of people with disabilities and the number of people who cannot read or write living in each area. Readers can learn about where help is needed by only looking at the maps. |
| Being A Leader
A book to help people learn how to be a leader. It was written by a self-advocate. |
| Beyond Tokenism: Partnering with People with Diverse Abilities on Consumer Advisory Boards
A guide offering strategies to support people with cognitive disabilities to be full partners in Advisory and other groups. |
| Boardsmanship
A workbook to help consumers understand how to become better members of community boards. |
| California DDS Consumer Friendly Publications
Publications about many different topics related to self-advocacy. These publications are from the California Department of Developmental Services. |
| Change Your Life With Human Rights
A book about the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, an important law passed by the United Nations. It has many good ideas for self-advocates. |
| Charting the Life Course: A Guide for Individuals, Families, and Professionals
This booklet has important questions for people with disabilities to ask at different points in their life. The questions are focused on self-determination. They start at infancy and go through end-of-life and cover many topics. |
| College Guide for Students with Disabilities
This brochure gives students information about college and being a student with a disability. |
| College Success for Students With Learning Disabilities
This books offers tips to help college students with learning disabilities. |
| Community conversations with people with developmental disabilities in California
This booklet explains the choices people with disabilities have in life, and the choices they would like to have. It was made from interview with 400 self-advocate who live in California. |
| Consent Handbook for Self-Advocates and Support Staff
This workbook for self-advocates and support staff provides tools to understand and implement crticial life decisions. |
| Curriculum on Abuse Prevention and Empowerment (CAPE)
A curriculum on CD ROM that teaches people with disabilities how to protect themselves from abuse. It is for people with disabilities who live independently, service providers, parents and allies of people with disabilities. |
| Dare to Dream for Adults
This workbook provides strategies for people with developmental disabilities that help delineate their dreams, desires, and needs in a variety of areas. |
| Disability Knowledge and Identity Self-Assessment
This tool was designed to find out what people know about disability history, culture, community, and policy. |
| Discovering Your Personal Power: A Real Life Curriculum for Self-Advocates
This CD helps people learn they have power. It can help them change both their lives and their communities. |
| DO You Understand Me?
This book offers an insider's view of life as a child with autism who attends a mainstream school. It is helpful to all children in understanding their classmates with disabilities like autism. |
| Exploring Self-Advocacy from a Social Power Perspective
An analysis of self-advocacy and social power. |
| Facilitated Communication/Case Studies: SEE US SMART!
Real life stories of children with limited ability to speak (or no oral speech at all), who learn to communicate with others using a new and unique method of communication. |
| Facilitation Tips
A booklet with ideas to help people with disabilities take part in meetings. |
| Flourish: People with Disabilities Living Life with Passion
This book has many stories of people with disabilities who have followed their dreams. It also tells the stories of the people who provided support. |
| Friendships, Feelings & Futures: Relating to Myself and Others
This is a sexuality education training guide suitable for people with or without disabilities. |
| Get on Board this Train to Freedom: Understanding the Civil Right View of Disability
This is a kit with three editions (parents, professional, and self-advocate) that helps people understand the civil rights view of disability. |
| Getting Around: Teaching Community Mobility Skills to Adolescents and Young Adults with Disabilities
This 49-page manual provides an overview and training details to help people with disabilities better understand how to use community transportation. |
| Getting Life
A fictional story of young adults living in a nursing home who fight to live independently. |
| Getting Organized
Discover the power of working together on issues and creating groups that build leadership. |
| GO FOR THE GOLD: Empowerment for Life
A fun and easy to use six-part training curriculum on personal empowerment |
| Going to the Doctor (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain what to expect when visiting the Doctor’s office. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. |
| Guideposts for Success
This is a downloadable pamphlet about the transition to adulthood for youth with disabilities and what is needed to help insure a bright future for them. |
| Healthy Relationships and Safe Sex: Tips for Self-Advocates
A handbook that helps self-advocates learn how to have healthy relationships and be safe if they are sexually active. It was written by a self-advocate to help others. |
| Hiring and Managing Personal Assistants
This book teaches self-advocates how to hire and manage the DSPs who assist them at home and at work. |
| How to Be Yourself in a World That's Different
This informative and encouraging book gives highlights and positive aspects of Asperger's Syndrome. It recognizes the daily challenges and offers strategies for dealing with them. |
| I am a Person First: Understanding the Value of Values
A video and curriculum to help people explore how they can put the values they cherish to work in their community. |
| I Am Much More Than You Think: Plain Talk About Me and Other Things You'll Want to Know
An interactive book for children, youth and young adults with disabilities that teaches self-advocacy. |
| Interviewing, Selecting, and Hiring Personal Care Attendants and Employment Specialists
Guide for individuals with a disability to take charge of the hiring process for personal care attendants and employment specialists. |
| It's My Choice
A self-guided workbook on person-centered planning. Available as a PDF download on the Internet. |
| It's OK to be Scared
A book for self-advocates with Down Syndrome. |
| Job Search Handbook for People with Disabilities
A job search book for job seekers with disabilities. |
| Large Pepperoni Pizza with an Advisor on the Side: How To Hire, Supervise And Train An Advisor (Revised in 2008 with DVD)
This booklet is about how to hire, train, and supervise an advisor. It is sold with or without a DVD narration and video training. |
| Life Landscapes: Saskatchewan advocate stories of success
This book tells the stories of people with disabilities. They are from Canada and involved in the self-advocacy movement. |
| Living Your Own Life With People You Can Count On
A booklet that describes the role of consumer support teams in supporting self-determination. |
| Lucky Dogs, Lost Hats, and Dating Don’ts Hi-Lo Stories about Real Life
This book has interesting stories that are easy to read. |
| Making a Difference: Profiles in Abilities
A book about the author's journey across Canada and through time, as he brings you inspirational stories about Canadians with disabilities who have gone the distance. |
| Making Choices As We Age: A Peer Training Program
A curriculum for training individuals with disabilities and their co-trainers how to teach other adults with developmental disabilities about choice-making, rights and responsibilities. |
| Michelle Finds a Voice (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain the how hard it is to be unable to speak clearly, and what helps. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. |
| Mugged (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain how it feels to be robbed, and what helps. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. |
| My Body, My choice
An empowering sexual abuse prevention mini-book for teens and adults with developmental disabilities. |
| My Choice, Your Decision
A video and curriculum that shows the hilarious differences between new fads in providing services and what people really want for themselves. |
| My Health Booklets
These eight booklets are easy to read and talk about different aspects of health. They are also available online with narration. |
| My Voice, My Choice: What You Need To Know About Participant Driven Supports
Eight chapter curriculum designed for self-advocates to teach about self-determination and participant driven supports. |
| Nobody nowhere
True story told by a woman with autism who grew up in England. |
| People with Disabilities Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence
This fact sheet is a list of the rights that people with disabilities have. It was written at the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, California. |
| Planning and Giving a Presentation: A Guide for Self-Advocates
This toolkit (workbook and CD) will help self-advocates speak to groups. |
| Planning Partners (Trainer Guide)
This product provides a fun, interactive workshop curriculum to teach people with disabilities and a planning partner (relative, friend, staff) how to advocate for themselves, communicate effectively, resolve conflict and develop life goals. |
| PossAbilities
This is training material to help people of all abilities create relationships and make safe, responsible choices about sexuality. There are both training manuals and PowerPoint slides available for sale. |
| Preparing for Disaster for People with Disabilities and other Special Needs (American Red Cross)
A Red Cross booklet to help people with disabilities prepare for disasters. |
| Pretending to be Normal
The story of a woman with Asperger's Syndrome who learned to embrace her disability with thanksgiving and joy. |
| Promoting Self-Determination in Students with Developmental Disabilities
This book tells how to teach people with disabilities to make choices. |
| Quality in Practice: Thinking About Responsibility
A short guide for DSPs. It tells how people with disabilities learn to have responsibility. It has many ideas anyone can try. |
| Raising Difficult Issues with your Service Provider
This booklet helps consumers begin dialogue and raise issues with their service provider. |
| Recommendations for Satisfaction Surveys
This guide gives advice to people creating satisfaction surveys, and to the consumers of disability services who respond. It can be viewed online as a PDF file. |
| Retarded Isn't Stupid Mom
True story about a young woman with intellectual disabilities told by her mother. |
| Rights and Safeguards A Guide for Self-Advocates
This booklet lists personal rights and ways to keep safe. It is easy to understand and uses both drawings and words. |
| Roles Based Planning
A book with tools based on social role valorization and person-centered planning and the differences these tools have made.
|
| Saints, Sinners and Special People: Understanding the Moral View of Disability
This product helps people understand the moral viewpoint of disability and the influence it has had on the way that people with disabilities are defined. |
| Satisfaction Guide
This guide and DVD helps people with disabilities tell others what is important to them. |
| Self-Advocacy for Students with Learning Disabilities
Self-Advocacy for Students with Learning Disabilities gives concrete advice to students, parents and counselors about how to select and gain acceptance to college, and how to succeed once the student is enrolled. |
| Self-Advocacy: Freedom, Equality and Justice for All
A video and accompanying curriculum to help people discover the connections between self-advocacy and broader social justice movements. |
| Self-Determination and You
This toolkit (workbook and CD) will help people to take control of their lives. |
| Shaking Off Stereotypes
A curriculum, including a high-quality video, to help self-advocates find the power to throw off stereotypes and see that we all have something to contribute. |
| Social Behavior and Self-Management: 5-Point Scales for Adolescents and Adults
This book helps people who have autism understand their feelings. This can make it easier to be a self-advocate and also to make friends. |
| Social Literacy: A Social Skills Seminar for Young Adults with ASDs, NLDs, and Social Anxiety
A twelve-week training curriculum to teach adults with disabilities social skills. It includes a book and a CD. |
| Somebody somewhere: Breaking free from the world of autism
This book tells the true story of Donna Williams life with autism. It is also available as an audio book. |
| Speakeasy-People with mental handicaps talk about their lives in institutions and in the community
In this book the author interviews people with intellectual disabilities who have lived in institutions and in the community. |
| Speaking for a Better Tomorrow, A Guide to Making an Effective Speech
This workbook gives step-by step instructions on how to get ready to give a speech. It also gives ideas about making a speech. |
| Speaking In Front of Groups
This resource manual helps people of all abilities learn how to be effective speakers. |
| Speaking Up A Plain Text Guide to Advocacy 4-volume set
A four-volume book set useful for teaching people with disabilities about self-advocacy. |
| Speaking Up for Myself (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain what it is like to have a disability, AND be from a minority culture. It also tells about what helps, is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. |
| Special Education Transition Planning A Self-Advocacy Fact Sheet from the Minnesota Disability Law Center
This fact sheet is about making plans for students with disabilities after graduation. |
| Stepping up to supervisor
This book talks about two skills needed to be a successful supervisor. It gives tips on how to work well by yourself, and how to work well with other people. |
| Sticks and Stones: Disabled People’s Stories of Abuse, Defiance and Resilience
A book that is a collection of over fifty stories about people with disabilities facing abuse and violence. |
| Support Networks A Guide for Self Advocates
This booklet gives self-advocates ideas on how to build a support nerwork. |
| Supporting Victims (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain what it is like to be a witness in a court trial. It also tells about what helps, is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. |
| Take Charge of Your Job Search
This book helps job seekers develop lifelong skills to find and get jobs. It provides clear, concise advice and activities on how to obtain the right job for unemployed people who face challenges getting into the job market.
|
| Taking Pride In That Which Sets Us Apart
This book encourages people to be proud of their disability. It also reminds all people with disabilties of the need to work together and stick up for each other. |
| Talk About Sex
This illustrated "minibook" is intended for young people aged 16-24 on a wide range of sex and sexuality issues. It is not designed specifically for youth with disabilities but the language is easy to understand. |
| Ten Things to Think About as You Prepare for Your Transition to Adulthood
This is a "fact sheet" with helpful information for students with disabilities as they go from high school to college. |
| The 411 on Disability Disclosure: A Workbook for Youth with Disabilities
This workbook helps young people make informed decisions about disclosing their disability. |
| The Multiple Sclerosis Manifesto: Action to Take, Principles to Live By
This book is about having MS. |
| The Patient Needs Fixing Understanding the Medical View of Disability
This kit helps participants explore the history and influence of the medical/professional view of people with disabilities. |
| The Peer Visitor Manual
A manual to help people with developmental disabilities become peer mentors. |
| The Ragged Edge: The Disability Experience from the Pages of the First Fifteen Years of the Disability Rag
This is a collection of articles from the first 15 years of The Disability Rag, a radical newspaper for persons with disabilities. |
| The Self-Advocacy Movement: The Unacknowledged Civil Rights Movement
This publication examines the self-advocacy social movement. |
| The Social Skills Picture Book for High School and Beyond
This picture book helps teens and adults practice social skills. It is meant especially for people on the autism spectrum. It is also available as a CD-ROM. |
| Thinking Ahead: My Life at the End
These materials help people with disabilities talk about advance care planning and express their wishes for end of life care. |
| Toolkits for Self-Advocates
These provide practical information to self-advocates and self-advocacy groups. |
| Using Individual-Centered Planning for Self-Directed Services
A practical guide to planning for consumers, families and service provider organizations containing specific examples and additional resources. |
| Voice Your Choice
This is a curriculum designed to teach people with life long disabilities about their rights and self advocacy. |
| Voting: It's Your Right
A guide about voting rights and the voting process in New Jersey. It is written in clear language for people with disabilities. |
| Waisman Center Transition to Adult Health Care Resources
These guides help youth with disabilities learn how to manage their health care needs when they become adults. There are also guides for parents, all can be downloaded for free. |
| WE CAN Stop Abuse Peer Training Manual
The manual teaches what is needed to have people with developmental disabilities teach others about sexual abuse prevention. |
| WE CAN Stop Abuse: A Sexual Abuse Prevention Curriculum for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
An 8-session, interactive curriculum to teach sexual abuse prevention skills to people who have developmental disabilities. It includes a DVD. |
| We Have Human Rights: A human rights handbook for people with developmental disabilities
This is a book about human rights. It tells about some key rights people with disabilities have and how they can work with others to get their rights. You can download it for free as a PDF file. |
| When You're 18 You Are in Charge of Your Health
This book prepares young people with disabilities to take care of their health care needs. |
| Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability by Paul Longmore
Why I Burned My Book, winner of the AAPD Betts Award, is a collection of essays on how people with disabilities can gain a voice and shape their destinies. |
| Wilson Buswell: A story about how inclusion can work for everyone
A news story about a man with cerebral palsy who helps new teachers learn about inclusion. |
| Women with Disabilities: Found Voices
This book was written by women with disabilities and those who work with them. |
| Working Together for Change
This toolkit (workbook and CD) will help self-advocates to work as a team and make a difference. |
| A Guide to Legislative Advocacy for Youth With Disabilities
A guide to help youth with disabilities become stronger advocates. It has information about how to ask for changes in the law. |
| ACT Self-Advocacy Resource Network Memo
This is an electronic memo facilitating a national dialogue among self-advocates and supporters. The sponsoring organization, Advocating Change Together, also is a clearinghouse for materials and training that support self-advocacy. |
| Advocates in Action
Website for AinA, Rhode Island's Statewide Self-Advocacy organization. It has a lots of free resources to download. |
| Asperger's Difference DVD: A Film For and About Young People with Asperger's Syndrome
This DVD is about people with Asperger's Syndrome. |
| Autism Hangout
An online resource that compiles news, knowledge and personal experiences on how best to thrive with autism. |
| AutismAsperger.net
A website that seeks to build awareness of the autism spectrum. |
| Becoming Independent
This film is about 3 young adults with disabilities, and shows them at work and home. It explains their lives, hopes and dreams for the future. |
| Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories
This is a 26-minute film developed by the Empowered Fe Fe's--a group of young women with disabilities in Chicago. The women take to the streets to explore issues surrounding disabilities. |
| Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy
"Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy" is a documentary film about the friendship of two self-advocates. Their advocacy efforts helped other people with disabilities to lead more independent lives. |
| Brain Injury Dialogues
This is a film about the impact that brain injury has had on a person and on other people with brain injuries. |
| Breaking Shells
Breaking Shells is a DVD featuring two people with intellectual disabilities. They show others how to speak up for themselves. |
| CDIHP Evacuation Preparedness Guide: Ability Self-Assessment
This is a very complete survey for people with disabilities. It helps people think about what they need to do so they are well-prepared for a disaster. |
| Celebrating Diversity: A Universal Message from the Real Rain Man
You've met Dustin Hoffman's remarkable Rain Man character, Raymond Babbitt. Now meet the real Rain Man; Kim Peek, the one-of-a-kind mega savant who was the inspiration for the Academy Award winning motion picture, |
| Curriculum on Abuse Prevention and Empowerment (CAPE)
A curriculum on CD ROM that teaches people with disabilities how to protect themselves from abuse. It is for people with disabilities who live independently, service providers, parents and allies of people with disabilities. |
| Dare to Dream for Adults
This workbook provides strategies for people with developmental disabilities that help delineate their dreams, desires, and needs in a variety of areas. |
| Declarations of Independence
Powerful four-minute DVD features ten self-advocates proclaiming some of their deepest values concerning disability, civil rights and living with dignity.
|
| Diabetes Management for Persons with Mental Illness and Developmental Disabilities
This DVD explains how diabetes is recognized and managed, and shares her experiences caring for people who have diabetes along with a developmental disability or a mental illness.
|
| Disability Knowledge and Identity Self-Assessment
This tool was designed to find out what people know about disability history, culture, community, and policy. |
| Dreams
A short film that features children and adults who have Down syndrome talking about their dreams and what they're proud of in their lives. |
| End the silence
This is a video about self-advocates speaking out about their personal experiences as victims of crime. |
| Flourish: People with Disabilities Living Life with Passion
This book has many stories of people with disabilities who have followed their dreams. It also tells the stories of the people who provided support. |
| Getting Organized
Discover the power of working together on issues and creating groups that build leadership. |
| I am a Person First: Understanding the Value of Values
A video and curriculum to help people explore how they can put the values they cherish to work in their community. |
| I Got that Right: Self-advocates speak up about disability rights
A video about rights |
| I Know How to Act DVD
This DVD teaches helpful social skills. It is designed for adolescents but may also work with adults. |
| Illinois Voices
Illinois Voices is a statewide initiative designed to empower people with developmental disabilities to make changes in their lives and the systems which support them.
|
| Informed Consent for Healthcare
This program helps people in making medical decisions. They share information for self-advocates, family members, support staff, and physicians. |
| Intellectual Disability Informational Video Clips
These short video clips explain the definition and causes of intellectual disabilities. One explains basic disability etiquette. All can be viwed online for free. |
| It's My Future
An iPad app that helps adults with developmental disabilities to become more self-determined. It also helps people take part in their annual planning meetings. |
| JABBERS: Dreams 'n Goals Game for Self-Advocates
JABBERS is a game for self-advocates to support them in realizing their goals in life and how to achieve those goals. |
| Large Pepperoni Pizza with an Advisor on the Side: How To Hire, Supervise And Train An Advisor (Revised in 2008 with DVD)
This booklet is about how to hire, train, and supervise an advisor. It is sold with or without a DVD narration and video training. |
| Leadership Through Personal Change: Think- Plan-Do
These are online guides and videos to help people with developmental disabilities live self-determined lives. |
| Making the Transition from High School to College: Transition Checklist
This checklist shows how students with disabilities must take different steps to get services in college than in high school. |
| Making Your Case
An online course designed to help families and people with disabilities learn about communicating with public officials to advocate for positive change for people with disabilities. |
| My Choice, Your Decision
A video and curriculum that shows the hilarious differences between new fads in providing services and what people really want for themselves. |
| My Health Booklets
These eight booklets are easy to read and talk about different aspects of health. They are also available online with narration. |
| My Life! My Story!
An iPad app to help people with disabilities create their own story. They can use it to tell others about their lives. |
| My Life, My Choice
A DVD about seven adults with disabilities who have taken their futures into their own hands. They live in Windsor, Ontario (Canada) and are tired of relying on a limited number of programs and services to direct their lives.
|
| No Walls Computer Courses
A very simple, low literacy level 7-course self-study introduction to basic computer skills for people with disabilities and other interested community members with low computer literacy |
| OASIS @ MAAP Website
A website with resources for families, individuals, and medical professionals who deal with the challenges of autism. |
| Outside/Inside
A short film about a young man who has autism and doesn't speak. Through a communication board and a camera he is able to share about his life. |
| Partners in Education
This self-directed online course helps parents of children with developmental disabilities understand and maximize the special education system. |
| Partners in Employment
This online course helps people with disabilities improve their skills at finding competitive employment. |
| Planning for Life: The Role of Direct Support Professionals in Self-Directed Planning
A 30 minute video for Direct Support Professionals about ways to support self-determination and self-direction in their work with people who have disabilities. |
| PossAbilities
This is training material to help people of all abilities create relationships and make safe, responsible choices about sexuality. There are both training manuals and PowerPoint slides available for sale. |
| Project Goal/ Electronic Resource Guide
An electronic resource guide for persons with disabilities and their families. |
| Rights + Responsibilities = Respect DVD A Guide to Understanding My Rights
This DVD teaches people with intellectual disabilities about their rights. |
| Satisfaction Guide
This guide and DVD helps people with disabilities tell others what is important to them. |
| Selective Mutism Foundation Website
To promote further research, advocacy, social acceptance, and the understanding of Selective Mutism as a debilitating disorder. |
| Self-Advocacy Bibliography on Web Site of Allen, Shea, and Associates
Self-Advocacy Bibliography |
| Self-Advocacy: Freedom, Equality and Justice for All
A video and accompanying curriculum to help people discover the connections between self-advocacy and broader social justice movements. |
| Self-Determination and You
This toolkit (workbook and CD) will help people to take control of their lives. |
| Self-Determination Is...
This is a video/DVD that outlines what self determination is: making your own choices, living the kind of life that you want. |
| Shaking Off Stereotypes
A curriculum, including a high-quality video, to help self-advocates find the power to throw off stereotypes and see that we all have something to contribute. |
| Sonic Mail
E-mail software accessible to people who don't read or type |
| Symbols for Life
Symbols for Life is a USB flash drive which holds over 2500 photos and symbols which you can use to support the meaning of text for people with developmental disabilities. Words on their own can be confusing.
|
| The Gillian Film
This is a film about a young woman who has a developmental disability. She works at a local veterinary clinic, rides horses, and takes dance classes. When Gillian decides to move out, her mother must come to terms with letting go. |
| The Real Communities Initiative
The purpose of the Real Communities Initiative is to connect people with intellectual disabilities to others so they can work together on community issues. |
| The Self Coming Alive: Awareness and Communication Training for Staff and Clients
This CD is training for people with dual diagnosis. It is also training for the staff who work with them. |
| The Social Skills Picture Book for High School and Beyond
This picture book helps teens and adults practice social skills. It is meant especially for people on the autism spectrum. It is also available as a CD-ROM. |
| This Is YOUR Right
A news show anchored by people with disabilities, these 2 videos from Irene M. Ward poke fun at faked reality commercials and present thoughtful news on living with disability. " |
| Transition, It's a Brave New World
This online article is an interview about the transition to adult life for young people who have disabilities. |
| Transition: The Missing Pieces
This CD-ROM is about how transition to adulthood can be especially difficult for students who have Asperger's syndrome. |
| Ups of Downs
A short film about a young and independent man from the UK who has Down syndrome |
| Vision Library for Enhancing Quality of Life CD-ROM
This CD-rom has many PowerPoint slides. They are about improving quality of life for people with disabilities. |
| Voting: It's Your Right
A guide about voting rights and the voting process in New Jersey. It is written in clear language for people with disabilities. |
| Waisman Center Transition to Adult Health Care Resources
These guides help youth with disabilities learn how to manage their health care needs when they become adults. There are also guides for parents, all can be downloaded for free. |
| Wake Up Call
The Wake Up Call DVD was developed as a training film for DSPs. It shows how people with disabilities want staff to speak, work, relate, and interact with them. |
| Ways to Make Complex Information Simple
This booklet helps people with disabilities to be prepared and understand what is being said at meetings. |
| WE CAN Stop Abuse: A Sexual Abuse Prevention Curriculum for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
An 8-session, interactive curriculum to teach sexual abuse prevention skills to people who have developmental disabilities. It includes a DVD. |
| We’re Living Well But Dying Matters
A DVD with people who have learning disabilities talking about death and dying. |
| What the Silenced Say: An Evening with Jonathan Mooney
“What the Silenced Say” is a call for educational revolution for all of us concerned with cognitive diversity. Jonathan Mooney is quickly emerging as one of the foremost leaders in alternative education.
|
| When Billy Broke his Head
This breakthrough film blends humor with politics, and individual experience with a chorus of voices, to explore what it is really like to live with a disability in America... |
| When You're 18 You Are in Charge of Your Health
This book prepares young people with disabilities to take care of their health care needs. |
| Who Wants to Live for a Million Years? HIV/AIDS Prevention for use by adults with developmental disabilities
Protecting oneself from HIV and AIDS is an ongoing challenge for anyone, and for people with disabilities, it can be especially challenging. This CD/ROM provides explicit prevention information and tools needed to help keep safe. |
| Women Living With Disabilities
This web site has many topics that are helpful for women with disabilities. |
| World Institute on Disability
An internationally recognized public policy center organized by and for people with disabilities. WID’s programs address employment, economic development and financial stability issues. |
| Access to Assets
A World Institute on Disability project that is learning new ways for people with disabilities to manage their money and make it grow. The project staff share what they are learning with people who have disabilities and financial planners. |
| BUTTERFLYWHEEL Motivation, Advocacy & Consulting
Monica J. Foster, a certified life transition coach w/ spina bifida, offers life transition coaching, supportive goal setting for people facing disability/chronic illness, positive talks, disability awareness training, ADA consulting, etc. |
| Get on Board this Train to Freedom: Understanding the Civil Right View of Disability
This is a kit with three editions (parents, professional, and self-advocate) that helps people understand the civil rights view of disability. |
| Imagine Enterprises
An organization in Texas. It offers person centered services such as employment support, and youth and transition educational seminars. |
| Informed Consent for Healthcare
This program helps people in making medical decisions. They share information for self-advocates, family members, support staff, and physicians. |
| Jump Start Self Advocacy, L.L.C.
Jump Start Self Advocacy L.L.C. provides consultation services, staff training, and community education and outreach for self-advocacy groups. |
| Making Choices As We Age: A Peer Training Program
A curriculum for training individuals with disabilities and their co-trainers how to teach other adults with developmental disabilities about choice-making, rights and responsibilities. |
| Making Your Case
An online course designed to help families and people with disabilities learn about communicating with public officials to advocate for positive change for people with disabilities. |
| My Health Booklets
These eight booklets are easy to read and talk about different aspects of health. They are also available online with narration. |
| National Consortium on Leadership and Disability for Youth
A Center that provides resources, information and training for youth with disabilities. The Center is led by youth with disabilities. |
| Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities
A council that seeks to increase the independence, productivity, integration and inclusion of people with developmental disabilities in Oregon. It has some unique publications. |
| Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Mentoring programs for youth with disabilities. |
| Partners in Education
This self-directed online course helps parents of children with developmental disabilities understand and maximize the special education system. |
| Partners in Employment
This online course helps people with disabilities improve their skills at finding competitive employment. |
| Project Goal/ Electronic Resource Guide
An electronic resource guide for persons with disabilities and their families. |
| Saints, Sinners and Special People: Understanding the Moral View of Disability
This product helps people understand the moral viewpoint of disability and the influence it has had on the way that people with disabilities are defined. |
| Self Advocate Coalition of Kansas (SACK)
An advocacy group in Kansas made up of adults with developmental disabilities. They help people speak up for themselves to have the highest possible level of independence. |
| Self-Advocate Leadership Network
An organization that provides training and resources for self-advocates and others. |
| The National Technical Assistance Center for Voting and Cognitive Access
This organization supports the right to vote for people with disabilities. They have a brochure and video. |
| The Patient Needs Fixing Understanding the Medical View of Disability
This kit helps participants explore the history and influence of the medical/professional view of people with disabilities. |
| The Real Communities Initiative
The purpose of the Real Communities Initiative is to connect people with intellectual disabilities to others so they can work together on community issues. |
| The Real Economic Impact Tour
A nation wide initiative to help low-income persons with disabilities with tax preparation and other related strategies. |
| World Institute on Disability
An internationally recognized public policy center organized by and for people with disabilities. WID’s programs address employment, economic development and financial stability issues. |
