Disability Information & Communication Exchange The National Council on Intellectual Disability (NCID) is the national association representing people with intellectual disability and their families in Australia.
Australasian Network of Students with Disabilities ANSWD is a volunteer student organisation, which advocates, promotes and campaigns on disability issues in the tertiary education field.
Independant Living Centre of NSW The Centre displays a comprehensive range of products and equipment to assist with daily living activities.
Physical Disability Council of NSW The Physical Disability Council of New South Wales Inc (PDCN) provides a state-wide voice for people with a physical disability.
Disability Complaints Service Is a free service to help people with a disability who wish to make a complaint about their rights being infringed.
Syndromes Without a Name - SWANS A support group of parents working to protect the health and promote the welfare of children who have undiagnosed conditions.
Anti Discrimination Board of NSW The Anti-Discrimination Board was set up in 1977 to administer the Anti-Discrimination Act.
Community Resource Unit CRU is a non-profit community organisation supporting leadership development and authentic positive change. They aim to challenge ideas and practices which limit the lives of people with disabilities.
Intellectual Disability Rights Service The Intellectual Disability Rights Service (IDRS) is a community legal centre in New South Wales. They provide legal advice and information for people within NSW with an intellectual disability.
NSW Council for Intellectual Disability The NSW Council for Intellectual Disability (NSW CID) is the peak organisation in NSW representing the rights and interests of people with intellectual disability.
Citizen Advocacy Eastside Citizen Advocacy is a movement that seeks to promote, protect and defend the rights and interests of people who have an intellectual disability.
Self Advocacy Sydney Self Advocacy Sydney is an organisation run by and for people with Intellectual Disability
People With Disability Australia People with Disability Australia Incorporated is a national peak disability rights and advocacy organisation. Its primary membership is made up of people with disability and organisations primarily constituted by people with disability.
Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association The Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association of NSW (MDAA) is the peak body for people from a non-English speaking background (NESB) with disability and their families and carers in NSW.
Queensland Advocacy Incorporated Queensland Advocacy Incorporated (QAI) is an independent, community-based systems advocacy and legal advocacy organisation for people with disability in Queensland, Australia.
NSW Ombudman The mission of the Ombudsman is to promote good conduct and fair decision-making in the interests of the NSW community. This mission applies to all agencies and persons within jurisdiction, whether public or private.
Queensland Parents for People with a Disability Inc. QPPD was established in 1981 and, during the eighties, received a number of grants to support advocacy ventures by parents. Their advocacy covered issues including family support and respite, education, quality lifestyles for adults and guardianship.
NSW Council of Social Service The Council of Social Service of New South Wales (NCOSS) is the peak body for the social and community services sector in New South Wales.
Citizen Advocacy Network A citizen advocate is a valued and competent citizen who freely chooses to enter a relationship with a person with a disability, called a protégé, to understand, respond to and represent the protégé's interests as if they were their own. Advocates should be unpaid and free from conflict of interest. Citizen Advocacy programmes recruit, orient and match people with disability with advocates and support these relationships over time.
Xavier Children's Support Network Xavier Children's Support Network is a QLD based organisation providing a network of services which supports and enables families of children with high support needs to maintain an appropriate quality of life for their children in a family and community setting.
Jackson West Jackson West is an 19 year old young man who lives in Canberra Australia. This is his website facilitated by his mother and family. It demonstrates their commitment to Jackson's full inclusion in the community. They believe Jackson, needs to live as part of a society that genuinely cares about his welfare, his life, his future.
Social Role Valorization It is the purpose of this site to provide information and some resources about Social Role Valorization (SRV), information about training opportunities and a forum for discussion. Social Role Valorization (SRV) is a high-level service and relationship theory based on empirical knowledge for the design and rendering of both formal and informal services and relationships to any kind of people with any kind of need or condition, but especially those who are devalued or at risk there of.
Include Pty Ltd The focus of Include Pty Ltd is to provide the teaching and support to ensure that people can be included even when they have very significant impairments. Include Pty Ltd believe that this can best be achieved by starting from the ordinary, valued and typical, looking for similarities rather than difference. On this web site, you will find what you seek in the ordinary, typical and valued.
Foundations Forum Foundations Forum is a NSW association that promotes values-based learning and community leadership.
Supported Living Explore this website to find Australian and overseas examples of people getting the support they need to live in their own homes, planning tools, research, resource guides, links to organizations that are "doing it".
TASH TASH is an international association of people with disabilities, their family members, other advocates, and professionals fighting for a society in which inclusion of all people in all aspects of society is the norm.
Center on Human Policy The Center on Human Policy (CHP) is a Syracuse University based policy, research, and advocacy organization involved in the national movement to insure the rights of people with disabilities.
Institute on Disability The Institute on Disability's mission is to promote the full inclusion of people with disabilities into their communities.
Michael J. Kendrick PhD Kendrick Consulting is a very small specialized international consulting firm principally focused on leadership and emerging developments in the fields of disability, mental health and aging.
Social Role Valorisation UK This website is dedicated to providing information about Social Role Valorization, Normalization and allied subjects.
Alberta Association for Community Living The Alberta Association for Community Living (AACL) is a family based, non-profit organization representing thousands of children and adults with developmental disabilities and their families.
Keyring Living Support Networks UK
The Karen Gaffney Foundation The Karen Gaffney Foundation is a non profit organisation that is dedicated to championing the journey to full inclusion in families, schools, communities and the workplace for people with Down Syndrome or other developmental disabilities.
Circle of Inclusion The Circle of Inclusion Web Site is for early childhood service providers and families of young children. This web site offers demonstrations of and information about, the effective practices of inclusive educational programs for children from birth through age eight.
Canning Area Parents for Real Employment CAPRE is a community entrepreneurial development agency designed to facilitate entrepreneurial and employment development among persons in the Canning area, specifically those with intellectual disabilities. The goal of CAPRE is to ensure the economic participation of people with disabilities in the life of their community. CAPRE also aims to stimulate creativity in the community by ensuring and supporting individual access to the systems and resources already in the community.
Whole Schooling The Whole Schooling Consortium is an international network of schools and individual teachers, parents, administrators, university faculty and community members. They are concerned with the problems that deepen social and individual segregation of children based on ability, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status and other characteristics. They believe that schools must be places that encourage the development of the whole child – linking talent development and social, emotional, cognitive, and physical learning.
Disability is Natural Promoting new ways of thinking: new attitudes, strategies to influence positive change, inclusive education, employment, behavior, humor, and a wide variety of other disability-related subjects. These articles question conventional wisdom and help readers rediscover their common sense!
Individualized Funding Information Resources This site is dedicated to providing comprehensive information about the development of ways that people with disabilities can gain control over the funds to pay for needed community services & supports - a crucial step towards self-determination and citizenship.
Jay Nolan Community Services The Mission of Jay Nolan Community Services, Inc. (JNCS) is to enable individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other Developmental Disabilities to live fulfilling lives as members of the community by providing support services customized to their individual needs. Jeff Strully is currently Executive Director of this service.
Kids Together Inc This site is designed to provide helpful information and resources to enhance the quality of life for children and adults with disabilities, and communities as a whole. An interesting collection of resources, parent perspectives and insights.
Parents for Inclusion Parents for Inclusion is a network of parents of disabled children and children with 'special needs'. In families and as an organisation they work together with disabled people to build inclusive communities in ordinary life, where all people are truly welcome.
Paula Kluth This website is dedicated to promoting inclusive schooling and exploring positive ways of supporting students with autism and other disabilities.
Onondaga Community Living Onondaga Community Living, affectionately known as OCL, has its office in central New York State in the city of Syracuse and provides services to adults with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities within the Syracuse area and nearby communities.Over time, OCL began to see that there was another way of doing services. Services based on one person at a time. This website gives further details of how they support people to live in their own homes and to find meaningful employment.
SERC SERC's commitment is to serve as a centralized resource for professionals, families, and community members regarding education and early intervention/prevention for all of Connecticut's children and youth and their families, particularly children with special needs, at-risk learners, and diverse learners.
Least Restrictive Environment Coalition The Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) is defined as the educational setting where a child with disabilities can receive a free appropriate public education (FAPE) designed to meet his or her education needs while being educated with peers without disabilities in the regular educational environment to the maximum extent appropriate.
Inclusive Solutions Colin Newton and Derek Wilson are co-founders of Inclusive Solutions. Together they have a combined experience of over 40 years as educational psychologists working across the UK. The website includes lots of information about the practice of inclusion, person-centred planning, circles of friends, etc.