Resource Links:
Sources for Community Independent Living Services, Inc. continously updates our resources links as new and innovative resources become availalbe. If you are unable to locate specific information, please contact us, so that we may be of further assistance.
Advocacy Groups
Arkansas Disability Coalition - Disability Resources, inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established to promote and improve awareness, availability and accessibility of information that can help people with disabilities live, learn, love, work and play independently.
Arkansas Disability Rights Center (www.arkdisabilityrights.org) - (DRC) is a private non-profit agency with offices in Little Rock, Arkansas. Since 1977 the Governor of Arkansas has designated DRC the independent rights protection and advocacy system for persons with disabilities in Arkansas. DRC operates under authority outlined in Federal law and is funded primarily by the Federal government.
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Information about Federal EEO Laws, Discriminatory Practices, Employers And Other Entities Covered By EEO Laws, how to ensure that mediation of equal employment opportunity disputes is accessible to people with disabilities.
Disability Specific Organizations
- ABA Resources - for recovery from the autistic disorders: autism, PDD, hyperlexia, and Asperger's Syndrome. Information on treatment and therapy (including applied behavior analysis, behavioral intervention, behavior modification, discrete trial training, or "Lovaas therapy"), special education, early intervention, and child disability resources."
- Alzheimer’s Association
- American Council for the Blind
- American Foundation for the Blind Southwest
- Arkansas Association for Hearing Impaired Children - The AAHIC provides support to families with children with limited hearing who have chosen the path to oral communication.
- Arkansas Autism Society
- Arkansas Project for Children with Deaf Blindness - A federally funded project, administered through the Arkansas Department of Education, Special Education, that serves individuals from birth through the age of 21 who are deafblind or who are at risk of being deafblind.
- Attention Deficit Disorders Association
- Brain Injury Association of Arkansas
- Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)
- Federation for the Blind
- A guide to Hearing Ear Dogs
- Helen Keller Story
- Learning Disabilities Association of Arkansas
- National Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA)
- The Arc of Arkansas (Mental Retardation)
- United Cerebral Palsy Association
Youth and Transition from School to Adult Life
Employment
Housing
Independent Living Centers
Organizations that provide information and other resources pertaining to disabilities
- Arkansas Disability Coalition - Disability Resources is a nonprofit organization that provides information about resources for independent living.
- Arkansas State Resources - Provide you with information and assistance about disability issues in your state.
- Home & Community Base Services - The Board’s mission is to bring together the federal government, states, and persons with all types of disabilities of all ages to expand access to high quality, cost-effective, consumer-directed home and community-based services and supports.
- NAMI Arkansas - National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
- National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities, - National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities will be serving as a central source of information on:
- IDEA, the nation's special education law,
- No Child Left Behind (as it relates to children with disabilities), and
- Research-based information on effective educational practices.
- Through the Looking Glass - Encourages early intervention services for families with disability issues
- United Way - First Call for Help - centralized information and referral service for Northwest Arkansas
Medications
Services for the Elderly
- Administration on Aging
- Administration on Aging Caregiver Support - Whether you are expecting to become a caregiver or have been thrust into the role overnight, it is useful to know where you can get information and help.
- Ethnic Elders Care - A site designed specifially for people who are currently or will be caregivers to ethnic elders with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
- Howard Kenneth Westblade
- J Kelly Educational Career Learning Center, Inc.
- Lift, Inc.
- Northwest Arkansas Certified Development Company
- Sources for Community Independent Living Services, Inc.
Miscellaneous
- ABA Materials - Educational materials for individuals with autism
- Accessible Travel - Providing Access Information To Mature And Disabled Travelers.
- Full Radius Dance - Explores, through modern dance, the sweep of the human experience in a world that contains a diversity of attitudes, actions and outcomes with a particular emphasis on persons with disabilities.
- Hospital Audiences, Inc. - The goals of HAI are to bring Hope And Inspiration by providing access to the arts by bringing people isolated from the cultural mainstream to cultural institutions and other visual and performing arts experiences or by presenting the arts directly to them in the institutions.
- Northwest Arkansas Information - Airports | Attractions | Businesses | Cities | Employment | Healthcare | Lodging | Media | Main Page | Real Estate | Restaurants | Schools | Shopping.
- Travel network - A global network of persons with Disabilities (and non-disabled) who have joined together and formed a unique family of friends who love to travel.
Medical Supplies & Equipment
- Abledata - Primary mission is to provide information on assistive technology and rehabilitation equipment for people with disabilities
- Devoted Medical Supply - A leading supplier of health care products.
- Hearing Aid - Assistive Devices - products are designed to make living with a hearing impairment slightly less of a challenge in daily life.
- Presidential Conversions - Assistive Devices & Equipment for physically challenged individuals
- Roll-A-Ramp - Compact & portable ramps that roll up & can fit inside the trunk of your car.