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Programs - Cultural Access & Inclusive Arts - Resources - Disability Links

Imagine Art

Imagine Art is on a mission to increase the presence of artists with disabilities as they pursue professional opportunities in the Austin arts community through a network of supports that reduce financial and personal support barriers related to participation. Learn more about Imagine Art.

VUE

Visual Understanding in Education (VUE) conducts educational research focused on aesthetic and cognitive development that results from interaction with art. Learn more about VUE.

Disability Museum

The Disability History Museum's mission is to promote understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities by recovering, chronicling, and interpreting their stories. Our goal is to help foster a deeper understanding of disability and to dispel lingering myths, assumptions, and stereotypes by examining these cultural legacies. Learn more about The Disability Museum.

Half the Planet: The Disability Resource

HalfthePlanet Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the application of technology to promote the values of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)—independent living, social inclusion, equality of opportunity, economic self-sufficiency, and empowerment. Learn more about HalfthePlanet Foundation.

Disability is Natural: A book by Kathie Snow

Revolutionary common sense for raising successful children with disabilities. Learn more about Disability is Natural.

AbilityHub.com

Assistive Technology for people with a disability who find operating a computer difficult, maybe even impossible. This web site will direct you to adaptive equipment and alternative methods available for accessing computers. Learn more about AbilityHub.com.

Galaviz & Hauber Productions

A Toronto-based company whose main focus is to make television accessible by creating descriptive video for the visually impaired, captions for the hearing impaired and language versions for other markets. Learn more about Galaviz & Hauber Productions.

Association of Science Technology Centers

With these pages, ASTC seeks to support science centers and museums in their ongoing efforts to open their doors to all people, and specifically to people with disabilities and their families and friends. ASTC is dedicated to "aggressively pursuing equity and diversity". Learn more about Association of Science Technology Centers.

DeafBlindinfo.org

A new online directory of worldwide resources for and about people with combined vision and hearing loss. The site is sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Human Services - Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Division, but is designed to be useful to people around the world. Learn more about DeafBlindinfo.org.

Insight Cinema

InSight Cinema is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the big screen movie-going experience to the 30 million deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) and English-as-a-second-language (ESL) audiences in the United States. Learn more about InSight Cinema.

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