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Disabilities are limitations in activity and/or functioning that are attributable to permanent medical conditions in physical, mental, emotional, and/or sensory domains and, significantly, are also due to societal responses to those limitations. Disabilities, then, denote more atomized perspectives on the phenomenon than does "disability" or "impairment". Those latter terms focus upon conditions within the individual. The term disabilities, by contrast, recognizes that people with disabiliti ...
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Disabilities Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Nemours Foundation http://www.Nemours.org
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- National Center for Health Statistics
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- Dept. of Health and Human Services
- Social Security Administration
- Food and Drug Administration
- Turner's Syndrome Society of the United States http://www.Turner-syndrome-us.org/
- Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance http://www.tsalliance.org
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society http://www.nmss.org/
- American Speech-Language Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/
- American Psychological Association http://www.apa.org/
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry http://www.aacap.org/
- National Mental Health Association http://www.nmha.org/
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
- Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation http://www.marchofdimes.com/
- American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation http://www.aapmr.org/
- Muscular Dystrophy Association http://www.mdausa.org/
- National Sleep Foundation http://www.sleepfoundation.org/
- Dept. of Agriculture
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Scleroderma Research Foundation http://www.srfcure.org/
- Dept. of Education
- National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill http://www.nami.org/
- Administration on Aging
- Prevent Blindness America http://www.preventblindness.org
- Foundation Fighting Blindness http://www.blindness.org/
- National Psoriasis Foundation http://www.psoriasis.org
- National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- American Psychiatric Association http://www.psych.org/
- American Occupational Therapy Association http://www.aota.org/
- National Center on Physical Activity and Disability http://www.ncpad.org
- Office of Disability Employment Policy http://www.dol.gov/odep/welcome.html
- Dept. of Transportation
- Amputee Coalition of America http://www.amputee-coalition.org/
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials http://www.astho.org/
- Dept. of Justice
- National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
- Bureau of the Census
- National Down Syndrome Society http://www.ndss.org/
- National Organization on Disability http://www.nod.org/
- National Fibromyalgia Partnership, Inc. http://www.fmpartnership.org
- National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS http://www.4woman.gov/
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Clearinghouse, NICHD, NIH, HHS http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/
- Office of Consumer Affairs, OEA, FDA,
- Job Accommodation Network http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/
- National Institute of Mental Health Information Center http://www.nimh.nih.gov/ocpl/index.htm
- CDC HIV/AIDS Workplace Education - Business Responds to AIDS and Labor Responds to AIDS programs (BRTA/LRTA) http://www.hivatwork.org/
- National Clearinghouse on Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI), SAMSHA, HHS http://www.health.org/
- U. S. Office of Personnel Management http://www.opm.gov/disability/index.htm
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Clearinghouse, AHRQ, OPHS, HHS http://www.ahcpr.gov/news/pubsix.htm
- Cancer Information Service, NCI, NIH, HHS http://cis.nci.nih.gov/
- Center for Research on Women with Disabilities http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/crowd/
- Federal Citizen Information Center, GSA http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/
- National Aging Information Center, AoA, HHS http://www.aoa.gov/naic/default.htm
- Administration on Aging, HHS http://www.aoa.gov/
- U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs
- National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, NIDDK, NIH, HHS http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, HHS http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/
- Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries http://www.ssa.gov/
- Consumer Response Center, Federal Trade Commission
- Office of Communications, NIAID, NIH, HHS
- National Institute on Aging Information Center, NIA, NIH, HHS http://www.nia.nih.gov
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Information Clearinghouse, NIDCD, NIH, HHS http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/misc/clearinghouse.asp
- Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing http://www.agbell.org/
- National Eye Institute, NIH, HHS http://www.nei.nih.gov/
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), OS, HHS http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/
- U.S. Department of Justice http://www.usdoj.gov/
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.os.dhhs.gov/
- Office of Minority Health Resource Center, OMH, OPHS, OS, HHS http://www.omhrc.gov/
- U.S. Department of Education http://www.ed.gov/
- Veterans Benefits Administration http://www.vba.va.gov/
- Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association http://www.unitedspinal.org/
- Office of Medical Applications of Research, NIH, HHS http://odp.od.nih.gov/omar/
- National Immunization Program, CDC, OPHS, HHS http://www.cdc.gov/nip/
- Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, HHS http://cms.hhs.gov/
- Federal Aviation Administration
- National Mental Health Information Center, SAMHSA, HHS http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/
- New York Online Access to Health, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center (NOAH) http://www.noah-health.org
- Nicotine Anonymous® World Services Http://www.nicotine-anonymous.org/
- Office on Smoking and Health, NCCDPHP, CDC, HHS http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, HHS http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
- Office of Health Affairs, OEA, FDA, OPHS, HHS http://www.fda.gov/
- Epilepsy Foundation, The http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/
- Council of Disability Rights http://www.disabilityrights.org/
- National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, ACYF, ACF, HHS http://naic.acf.hhs.gov/
- National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, HHS http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
- National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation http://www.albinism.org/
- National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, ED http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/NIDRR/
- Disability Statistics Center http://dsc.ucsf.edu/main.php
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/
- National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities, ED http://www.nichcy.org/
- National Spinal Cord Injury Association http://www.spinalcord.org/
- Spinal Cord Society http://members.aol.com/scsweb/
- Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center http://www.vanhosp.bc.ca/
- National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Publications Information Center
- Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center, NIA, NIH, HHS http://www.alzheimers.org/
- U.S. Department of Transportation http://www.dot.gov/
- Arc of the United States http://www.thearc.org
- National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders http://www.anad.org/
- Health Insurance Association of America http://www.hiaa.org/
- Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/
- U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/
- National Association of Protection and Advocacy Inc. http://www.protectionandadvocacy.com/
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center http://www.csmc.edu/ibd/index.html
- North Carolina Department of Health and Human Resources http://www.dhr.state.nc.us/DHR/docs/issues/health.htm
- National Down Syndrome Congress http://www.ndsccenter.org/
- Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center http://www.hsc.missouri.edu/~fibro/
- Rocky Mountain ADA Technical Assistance Center (DBTAC) http://www.ada-infonet.org/
- Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions at Western University of Health Sciences http://www.cdihp.org/
- The Access Board http://www.access-board.gov/
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education (CE), ERIC, NLE, OERI, ED http://ericacve.org/
- Breast Health Access for Women With Disabilities http://www.bhawd.org/
- Rocky Mountain Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center http://www.ada-infonet.org/
- ABLEDATA, NIDDR, ED http://www.abledata.com/

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