Important Websites for People with Disabilities

ADA/Disability Resources

Aging

  • NYS Office for the Aging Senior Citizens Hotline
    www.aging.state.ny.us
  • U.S. Administration on Aging Elder Care Locator
    www.aoa.gov (Click on locate and learn A-Z)
  • Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC)
    www.health.state.ny.us (Click on EPIC for Seniors under Features)

AIDS

Architectural Barriers

Blindness

  • American Council of the Blind of New York State
    www.acb.org
  • National Federation of the Blind of New York
    www.nfb.org
  • NYS Talking Book and Braille Library
    www.nysl.nysed.gov/tbbl
  • American Association of the Deaf-Blind
    www.aadb.org
  • Blind Children's Center
    www.blindchildrenscenter.org

Brain Injury

  • Brain Injury Association of NYS
    www.bianys.org

Cerebral Palsy

  • United Cerebral Palsy Association
    www.ucp.org

Children

  • Special Education/VESID
    www.vesid.nysed.gov
  • National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
    www.nichcy.org

Developmental Disabilities

Deaf and Hard of Hearing

  • Self Help for Hard of Hearing People
    www.shhh.org
  • American Association of the Deaf-Blind
    www.aadb.org
  • Captioned Media Program
    www.cfv.org
  • NYS Department of State Division of Licensing Services/Hearing Aids
    www.licensing@dos.state.ny.us

Diabetes

  • American Diabetes Association
    www.diabetes.org

Employment

Home Health Care

  • NYS Department of Health Hotline
    www.health.state.ny.us
  • Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT)
    www.adapt.org

Independent Living Centers

Learning Disabilities

  • Learning Disabilities Association of NYS
    www.ldonline.org

Medicaid

Medicare

Mental Health

  • NYS Office of Mental Health
    www.omh.state.ny.us
  • Alliance for the Mentally Ill of New York State
    www.naminys.org
  • National Mental Health Association
    www.nmha.org

Mental Retardation

  • NYS Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
    www.omr.state.ny.us
  • Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled
    www.cqc.state.ny.us
  • American Association on Mental Retardation
    www.aamr.org

Multiple Sclerosis

  • Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
    www.msfacts.org
  • National Multiple Sclerosis Society
    www.nmss.org

Muscular Dystrophy

  • Muscular Dystrophy Association Patient Services
    www.mdausa.org

Social Security

Social Services

Spinal Cord Injury

  • United Spinal Association
    www.unitedspinal.org
  • National Spinal Cord Injury Association
    www.spinalcord.org

Veterans

  • Blinded Veterans of America
    www.bva.org
  • Paralyzed Veterans of America
    www.pva.org

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