Advocating for Your Child How-to help on advocating for special education services, from Wrightslaw
The Arc Home Page National organization on mental retardation
Family Village Information, chat, resources, and a search engine "for people with mental retardation and other disabilities" and their families
Family Voices Advocacy and information regarding community-based services for children and youths with disabilities
Kids As Self Advocates Advocacy organization of teens and young adults
Institute on Community Integration Research, information, technical assistance and publications to improve personal and social community-based supports for people with disabilities
National Coalition on Self Determination A group of people with developmental disabilities and their families who work to promote the principles of the Self Determination movement through national disability policy advocacy.
National Home of Your Own Alliance Home ownership for people with disabilities, especially those with intellectual disabilities
National Program Office on Self Determination A program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to promote programs that allow people with developmental disabilities to control services provided to them, and the funds that pay for them
National Resource Center on Community Integration "Designed to promote the full inclusion of people with developmental disabilities in community life"
New York State Future Care Planning Clearinghouse Information on planning for housing and community support for people with disabilities, especially those who will need ongoing support and assistance to live independently
New York State Self Advocacy Association Consumer rights organization for people with mental retardation or developmental disabilities
QualityMall Comprehensive site featuring information on services, products and practices for person-centered support of people with developmental disabilities
Radar A searchable database of emerging issues related to developmental disabilities, culled from "over 150 National, State and local newspapers, trade newsletters, professional journals including the American Journal on Mental Retardation and Mental Retardation and AAMR News & Notes".
Research & Training Center on Community Living Focuses on people with developmental disabilities
Rural Institute on Disability "...guided by values of independence, productivity, integration, and inclusion of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families"; information, training, research and dissemination
The SkillNet Group A British site operated by "people with learning disabilities" (this is the UK equivalent of the American euphemism, "people with intellectual disabilities", not "learning disabilities" as Americans use the term); probably of limited usefulness to Americans since it focuses on resources and issues in Kent, England, but it's an interesting site just the same
