Useful Websites:
Animal Recordings from the Macaulay Library, Cornell
Search through "the world's largest archive of animal sounds.We have more than 160,000 recordings of 67 percent of the world's birds, and rapidly increasing holdings of insects, fish, frogs, and mammals." Note that not all selections are digitized.
BookShare.org
Bookshare.org gives print disabled people access to over 31,000 books and 150 periodicals that are converted to Braille, large print or text to speech audio files. There is a subscription fee.
Children's Literature and Disability
Early Childhood Measures Profiles [PDF]
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
American Association of People With Disabilities
AAPD is the largest national nonprofit cross-disability member organization in the United States, dedicated to ensuring economic self-sufficiency and political empowerment for the more than 50 million Americans with disabilities.
The site combines the social-networking features of Web sites like Facebook with information of interest to people affected by disability including: medical news, career advice, dating resources and travel tips.
This is a curriculum aid to teach students how to be savvy consumers of news. It includes lesson plans on analytical thinking, fact-finding, and recognizing deception, and on understanding political discussions of current issues. Also includes a dictionary of political and journalism terms, and a guide to internet sources.
The Future of Disability in America
Helping Your Child Become A Reader
MIUSA- Mobility International USA
National Council for Support of Disability Issues
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Teachers Domain: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development

