Best of the Web

  • Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.

  • Wide range of products, including National Library Service compatible cassette players.

  • Find information from current, well researched websites about all areas of health including disabilities. This site also links to Medline where you will find citations to current articles about your topic.
  • Online version of a standard health reference book.
  • This heterogenous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest.
  • Advocates for national policy, legislation, and funding to support adults with special learning needs. Provides professional development and technical assistance and disseminates information and research.
  • Comprehensive information for people with low vision, including a Low Vision Aids department and links to other agencies and services.
  • An association dedicated to safeguarding the accessibility and civil rights of 28 million deaf and hard of hearing Americans. The NAD is the oldest and largest organization representing people with disabilities in the United States.
  • Source of braille materials.
  • Provides information and support to women and girls with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
  • Organization founded to promote public awareness and understanding of children and adults with learning disabilities.
  • For researchers, health care professionals, educators, the media, and the general public.
  • Membership organization that helps blind persons achieve self-confidence and self-respect by providing services that include information and referral, scholarships, public education, and advocacy.
  • National information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability related issues for families, educators and other professional.
  • The leading Federal agency for research on mental and behavioral disorders.
  • Research and clues about healthy aging is translated by The National Institute on Aging into health information you can use. Use the site to search, view and order NIA publications and other materials.
  • Dedicated to ending the devastating effects of multiple sclerosis, including treatments, research, advocacy, educational programs, special events..
  • Serves as an information center focusing on a wide range of disability and rehabilitation issues. Maintains a collection of disability and rehabilitation research literature.
  • Provides access to information, products and equipment and to the manufacturers and vendors of equipment and devices that can change the lives of people of all ages, with all types of disabilities
  • Eye care facility, website contains information on eye conditions.
  • Programs for children with blindness and visual impairments, as well as those with emotional, learning, or developmental disabilities.

  • The New York State Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped (CBVH) provides vocational rehabilitation and other direct services to blind and visually impaired New York State residents, including children, adults, and elderly persons.

  • VESID, an office of the New York State Education Department, each year offers thousands of New Yorkers who have a disability an opportunity to become independent through education, training and employment.

  • Another source for e-texts which include plays, accessible by author, title and subject.
  • Serves as an index to more than 18,000 public domain books on the web, searchable by author, title, and subject.
  • The Open Library was created to allow free web access to important book collections from around the world.
  • Hundreds of public domain classics, including US historical documents and presidential inaugural addresses.
  • Dedicated to serving the needs of spinal cord injured/diseased veterans and non-veterans with disabilities.
  • Dedicated to saving sight, this foundation offers public and professional education and community services. The website includes a newsletter.
  • Comprehensive collection of electronic texts.
  • Fee-based subscriber service offering books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences.
  • Recorded Books is one of the world's largest independent publisher and distributor of unabridged audiobooks on cassettes and CDs, narrated by professional actors. You can purchase or rent.
  • Provides info on new releases. Has a searchable database, authorinterviews, news items, and a chat room.
  • Library contains more than 80,000 taped textbooks in a variety of subjects, from literature and history to math and the sciences, at all academic levels from kindergarten through postgraduate.
  • Maintains a lending library of educational materials and textbooks on cassette tape and compact disc to persons with verified visual, physical, or specific learning disabilities that limit reading regular print. Requires a one-time registration fee and an annual membership fee for all applicants.
  • A site where senior citizens, their families, attorneys, social workers, and financial planners, can access information about elder law, Medicare, Medicaid, guardianship, estate planning, trusts and the rights of the elderly and disabled.
  • SeniorNet is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization of computer-using adults, age 50 and older. SeniorNet's mission is to provide older adults education for and access to computer technologies to enhance their lives and enable them to share their knowledge and wisdom.
  • Useful links for assistive devices, coochlear implants, education, forums, and hearing aids.
  • Provides access to publications like The Social Security Handbook, and to information about welfare reform, childhood disability , social security disability, and employment support programs.
  • Soundaround is a free international interactive audio magazine program, that is easily navigated by using the number keys on your computer keyboard.
  • Special Olympics for the disabled, provides continual training and competition in Olympic style summer and winter sports.
  • Website of a medical facility in Louisanna that provides information on eyes, eye care, and eye conditions.
  • Easily readable tactile graphics and braille products.
  • National organization of and for people with mental retardation and related disabilities and their families.
  • A rich collection of 19th century books and journals from the University of Michigan. Topics range from American social history from the antebellum period, through reconstruction.
  • An international library partnership with the Internet Archive, offering a free-to-read, searchable digital library of over 10,612 items.
  • Over 1500 books online
  • More than 5,000 digital books in Spanish for registered subscribers.
  • Works to prevent the barriers and capitalize on the opportunities presented by current and emerging information and telecommunication technologies, in order to create a world that is as accessible and usable as possible for as many people as possible. The Trace Center is currently working on ways to make standard information technologies and telecommunications systems more accessible and usable by people with disabilities.
  • Works to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities by expanding access to training, education, employment supports, assistive technology, and integrated employment.
  • Information for seniors from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, including determining what kind of assistance or living arrangement you need, what your health insurance might cover, and what you can afford.
  • Second largest health charity in America for advancement of independence and productivity of people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities.
  • Enhances the quality of life and employment options of persons with disabilities through the use of modified personal computers, adaptive devices and custom software.
  • Helps in determining your technology needs. Offers delivery, installation and orientation of your new equipment at home or at work. They also offer competitive discounted access technology prices for equipment, computer hardware, software and training as well as upgrades, maintenance agreements, and multi-user site licenses.
  • Author interviews, poetry, childrens titles, and more, most of them in RealAudio.

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