Statewide Disability Advocacy

Advocacy, Inc. - www.advocacyinc.org

ADAPT - www.adapt.org

Brain Injury Association of Texas - www.biatx.org

Coalition of Texans with Disabilities - www.cotwd.org

Disability Policy Consortium - www.dpctexas.org

Mental Health Association in Texas - www.mhatexas.org

Texas University Affiliated Program - http://uap.edb.utexas.edu

United Cerebral Palsy - www.ucpa.org

 

Education/Special Education

 

EDLAW - www.edlaw.org

Idea Practices (Council for Exceptional Children)

www.ideapractices.org or http://www.cec.sped.org

Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (The PACER Center) - www.pacer.org

Special Education Home Page - http://specialed.miningco.com

TASH - www.tash.org

Texas Education Agency - www.tea.state.tx.us

U.S. Department of Education - www.ed.gov

Partners Resource Network - www.eparent.com

Families and Advocates for Partnerships in Education (FAPE) - www.fape.org

Family to Family Network - www.familytofamilynetwork.org

Inclusion Research Institute - www.inclusionresearch.org

NCD Report: "Back to School on Civil Rights" - www.wrightslaw.com/law/reports/IDEA_Compliance_Index.htm

Reed Martin - www.reedmartin.com

School Matters - www.schoolmatters.com

TEA Due Process Hearing Decisions - http://www.tea.state.tx.us/special.ed/hearings/

TEA Special Education Rules - http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/home

 

Health and Human Services Agencies

 

Texas Health and Human Services Commission - www.hhsc.state.tx.us

Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) - www.dads.state.tx.us

Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) - www.dshs.state.tx.us

Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) - www.dars.state.tx.us

Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) - www.dfps.state.tx.us

 

Other Government Agencies

 

National Council on Disability - www.ncd.gov

National Institutes of Health - www.nih.gov

Social Security Administration - www.ssa.gov

The Texas Planning Council for Developmental Disabilities - www.txddc.state.tx.us/

 

Legal Resources

 

The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates - www.copaa.net

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) - www.dredf.org

EDLAW - www.edlaw.org

 

Self-Advocacy

 

Partners in Policymaking - www.partnersinpolicymaking.com

Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) - www.sabeusa.org

Texas Advocates - www.txadvocates.org

 

Sites Relating to Specific Disabilities

 

Asperger's Syndrome

OASIS (Online Asperger's Syndrome Information & Support) - www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/

 

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder - http://chadd.org

 

Autism

Autism-PDD Resources Network - www.autism-pdd.net

Autism Society of America - http://autism-society.org

Center for the Study of Autism - www.autism.org

University of Texas Autism Project - http://www.edb.utexas.edu/utap

 

Brain Injury

Brain Injury Association of Texas - www.biatx.org

 

Cerebral Palsy

United Cerebral Palsy - www.ucpa.org

 

Down Syndrome

Association for Children with Down Syndrome - www.acds.org

Down Syndrome Health Issues - www.ds-health.com

Down Syndrome World Wide Web Page - www.nas.com/downsyn

National Association for Down Syndrome - www.nads.org

National Down Syndrome Society - www.ndss.org

UPSIDE - www.telebyte.com/upside/upside.html

 

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Arium - http://arium.org

National Organization on FAS - www.nofas.org

 

Prader-Willi Syndrome

Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA) - www.pwsausa.org

 

Williams Syndrome

The Williams Syndrome Association - www.williams-syndrome.org

The Williams Syndrome Home Page - www.wsf.org

 

Miscellaneous Disability Resources

American Association of Mental Retardation (AAMR) - www.aamr.org

Disability Resources on the Internet - www.disabilityresources.org

Family Village - www.familyvillage.wisc.edu

Mothers United for Moral Support (MUMS) - www.netnet.net/mums/

NAMI - www.nami.org

National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY) - www.nichcy.org

Texas Assistive Technology Partnership - http://tatp.edb.utexas.edu

Texas Connection Consortium - http://texasconnection.org

Texas Council of Community MHMR Centers - www.txcouncil.com

The Texas Information & Referral Network - www.hhsc.state.tx.us/tirn/tirnhome.htm

Special Olympics - Texas - www.sotx.org

Any Baby Can - www.abcaus.org

National Association for the Dually Diagnosed - www.thenadd.org

Texas Health Organizations - www.theagapecenter.com/organizations/texas.htm

TSBVI (Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired) - www.tsbvi.edu

TAMR - www.tamr-web.com

Just Transportation Alliance - www.justtransportation.org/index.htm

Transition Coalition - www.transitioncoalition.org

Worksupport - www.worksupport.com

 

 

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