International Disability: United States

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Bone and Joint Decade 2002-2011 The Bone and Joint Decade is a multidisciplinary world wide initiative involving everyone concerned with the care of bone and joint disorders.
Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Human Rights Issues Related to Women With Disabilities from the Feminist International Radio Endeavour Disabled Women’s Section. A Space for Women with All Types of Disabilities
International Conference: Technology and Persons with Disabilities
International Dyslexia Association
Mental Disability Rights International
- Foreign Policy and Disability: Legislative Strategies and Civil Rights Protections to Ensure Inclusion of People with Disability (.pdf)
- "International Human Rights and Mental Health Legislation" New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2002
- Recognizing Existing Rights and Crafting New Ones: Tools for Drafting Human Rights Instruments for People with Mental Disability, co-authored by Clarence J. Sundram and Eric Rosenthal (.pdf) published as chapter 18 of The Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Different but Equal (Oxford University Press, Lawrence Gostin and Harold Koh, eds., 2003)
National Council on Disability: Understanding the Role of an International Convention on the Human Rights of People with Disabilities
Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America (RESNA)
TRACE Center at the University of Wisconsin. The Trace Research & Development Center is a part of the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Trace Center is currently working on ways to make standard information technologies and telecommunications systems more accessible and usable by people with disabilities.
Universal Design / Disability Access Program is a program at the Trace Research & Development Center that is part of the National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Alliance is involved in the development of supercomputing systems and applications (including future Internet applications) and it is Trace’s role to help ensure that they are built in a manner that makes them more accessible for people with disabilities.
U.S. Department of Transportation Toll-Free Hotline for air travelers with disabilities:
- Voice: 1-800-778-4838
- TTY: 1-800-455-9880
The Hotline is available from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, seven days a week. It serves two main purposes: (1) education and (2) assistance in resolving disability-related air travel problems.
- Information for the Air Traveler with a Disability
- Passengers with Disabilities

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