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A Resource Center Assisting People With All Types of Disabilities

Links

Sources for Community Independent Living Services, Inc. compiled several website links we found most beneficial. 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



• Mainstream - Produced by, for and about people with disabilities, MAINSTREAM covers news & current affairs, new products & technology, profiles of movers & shakers, education, employment, sexuality & relationships, housing, transportation, travel & recreation.

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
• 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

• Transition Coalition

Employment

• America's Job Bank
• Arkansas Rehabilitation Services
• Job Accomodation Network
• Take Charge to collect 75% of your Ticket $

Housing

• Home Store

Independent Living Centers

• Directory of Independent Living Centers
• Independent Living Reseach Utilization

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
• 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

• Needy Meds
• The Medicine Program

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.
• 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