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HEALTH AND WELLBEING - PEER SUPPORT - GENERAL SUPPORT GROUPS
ORGANISATIONS PRODUCTS SOCIAL MEDIA SUPPORT GROUPS | Provides adaptive sports and recreation opportunities for disabled individuals of all ages throughout New England.We are dedicated to helping disabled people of all abilities realize their dreams of inclusion through adaptive skiing and other recreation opportunities. The website also has a chat room and a really good intro with pictures! |
| Redefining Disability with Style, Ticks and awards |
| Providing information, inspiration & opportunity for people with disabilities. |
| The largest social site for disabled people with over 50,000 members. Offering the latest News, Travel, Jobs, Social Networking, Dating and much more.
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| Disaboom.com combines disability-related health and lifestyles information with an engaging, member-driven community of personal profiles, blogs, forums, and shared-interest groups, tailored to your needs. Disaboom is working hard to help you connect at your point of need, interest, or engagement. (NB: we're not sure what's happened with this site...not quite what it used to be it seems?) |
| Fanlight Productions is a leading distributor of innovative film and video works on the social issues of our time, with a special focus on:
healthcare
mental health
professional ethics
aging and gerontology
disabilities
the workplace
gender and family issues
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| This website includes an events calendar with events all over Australia, from wheelchair sports and dancing to outdoor cinema, to Arts Festivals, to Abilities Expo, there's always lots happening |
| Become informed. Get connected. Be inspired. The LIFE Center strives to help you live life fully! Our growing collection of books, videos, magazines, and multimedia learning resources is geared toward people with disabilities and their families. Community resources, such as support groups, classes, and disability-specific organizations/programs are included in our Center to connect you to information that spans key topics of life. Explore our web site features to learn more about how to navigate the site. |
| Plenty of up to date posts on this Facebook page covering the New England North West area of NSW |
| Pinarc Disability Support, Ballarat provides a comprehensive range of support programs that enable people with disabilities to reach their full potential. We believe in freedom of choice and the right to participate as a valued member of the community. |
| Ramp Up is the ABC's new online destination for news, discussion, debate and humour for everyone in Australia's disability communities. Whether you live with a disability, are a friend or family member of someone with a disability, work in the sector or just want to get a better picture, this is a lively community space to have your say.
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| WWDA seeks to ensure opportunities in all walks of life for all women with disabilities. In this it aims to increase awareness of, and address issues faced by, women with disabilities in the community. |
| Youreable is an online community of and for disabled people.
Youreable is the home of a vibrant community of disabled people, supporting and helping each other by sharing their experiences. It is run by leading national charity the Disabled Living Foundation |
| Are you sick of gimp gawking idiots staring and asking you dumb questions??? Well this is the place for you! We have many products for you to tell it like it is!
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| 'Wheelchair' is a commercial company that includes on it's website interviews with wheelchair athletes and a great collection of wheelchair sports and recreation videos including paragliding, tennis, dance, softball,wheelchair rugby or 'murderball',climbing, handcycling, power soccer, wheelchair hockey and more and more and more. Scroll down to see a collection of their videos.
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| Founded by two disabled guys in 2011, Disability Horizons publishes articles on a wide variety of topics, all to support the aim of a world where disabled people live exactly as they choose to. You can sign up for our newsletter to get all our articles directly to your inbox, along with our Ultimate Disability Survival guide.
All articles are sourced directly from our community of readers, making Disability Horizons a lifestyle publication about disabled people, for disabled people. Articles span topics from technology, relationships, sports, employment and travel. |
| The Disability Visibility Project is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. |
| Mouth magazine brings the conversation down to street level, where well-intentioned "special" programs wreak havoc in the lives of ordinary people. People talk about calling a spade a spade. We call Jack Kevorkian a serial killer. And when maggots outnumber nurses' aides at what others call a "care facility," we call it a hellhole. We say it out loud: if special education is so darned special, every kid in every school ought to have the benefit of it. |
| The 'Ouch' section of the BBC website is dedicated to issues affecting disabled people. They have regular columns, features and news about disability matters.
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| This website offers thousands of disability related articles. Find out more about the site and some of our other publications here. |
| Beauty Ability shares what myself and others have discovered from this crazy disabled journey. I hope my site helps inspire the newly injured and unchallenged thinkers that despite a having disability, we all can still be attractive beings inside and out.
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| Here, young people with disabilities and illnesses connect with all kinds of possibilities that address their needs as curious, growing citizens of the planet. They meet and chat with other people like them in a virtual world that transcends boundaries and barriers. |
| CareCure has over 70 forums where we discuss everything from Life to Legislation & Advocacy, from Sports and Travel to Pain, from Computers to Politics. We discuss it all! Please come join us! |
| Like our products the personality of Colours is that of leadership and understanding, "no pun intended." We hope to provide an outlet to voice suggestions, ultimately allowing you to change the way people see the disabled and yourself. It is our goal to increase each persons experiences through mobility, education and most importantly, the general societies awareness toward people. |
| Are you ready for a change?
Ready for some Good News?
One American in five is a person with a disability. An individual with a disability is more like people without disabilities than different to them. Having a disability is a "natural part of the human experience (as expressed in the U.S. Developmental Disabilities Act).The sun shines equally on all the apples in the bowl and it's time for the light of inclusion, opportunity, freedom, and dignity to shine equally on all people including people with disabilities. |
| GimpGirl Community has been a long-time resource for women with disabilities, hosting mailing lists, sponsoring polls, and publishing a newsletter at one time. |
| ILWAD.com is the first social networking platform of its kind, empowering the people with disabilities and their loved ones with the tools and resources they need to live a happy and fulfilling life. At ILWAD you are not defined by the limitations of your disability, rather you are defined by what you continue to overcome.ILWAD offers all of the benefits of larger social media platforms, such s Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, but in a controlled, monitored, and honest setting.
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| THE WALK AND ROLL FOUNDATION BELIEVES EVERY PERSON LIVING WITH A DISABILITY SHOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TURN LIMITATIONS INTO OPPORTUNITIES. |
| This website is independently owned and operated by wheelchair gonzo, Mark E. Smith, who is also a manager and designer for Pride Mobility Products. WheelchairJunkie.com is about mobility, not manufacturers, so the voices expressed here represent only those people who are the 'users'. It's just a user-helping-user thing, and no matter which brand wheels are under your rear, we're here to help suss' them all out. |
| Youreable's forums are now open! If you have questions about benefits, work, health, travel or motoring for disabled people, or can offer advice to others, or just want to discuss the news and current affairs, please register for our forum and join the discussions. |
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