Welcome to Our Resources Page
This page offers a collection of helpful tools, guides, and links designed to support
individuals with disabilities, as well as the professionals, families, and organizations
that serve them. Whether you're looking for information on employment, education,
accessibility, or community support, you'll find a variety of resources to assist
you.
If you notice a broken link, please contact untwise@unt.edu. We appreciate your input!
Accessibility & Accommodations
- Accessibility Technology & Tools in Microsoft Office - This page is a catalog of accessible technology and tools from Microsoft Office.
- Accessibility Resources & Training in Microsoft Office - This page is a catalog of accessible resources and training from Microsoft Office.
- Microsoft Office Accessibility Videos - Microsoft Office videos on how to support people with disabilities by creating
accessible digital experiences.
- Essential Components of Web Accessibility - This page shows how web accessibility depends on several components working together,
and how improvements in specific components could substantially improve web accessibility.
- NCRTM Accessibility Resources - This page includes helpful resources from the NCRTM, federal agencies and leading
accessibility experts.
- Olympic Failure: A Case for Making the Web Accessible - A webpage that describes a ground-breaking web accessibility court case out of
Sydney, Australia. Through the discussion of this case, the webpage provides helpful
tips about accessibility laws and how to create accessible websites.
- Accessibility Stories: Michelle - UNT DAIR Graduate Michelle Boyd discusses online accessibility in this video.
- Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation - A website that offers tips on reasonable accommodations for persons with psychiatric
disabilities.
- Technology and Autism - This page has the latest information and resources involving assistive technology
and autism.
- Institute for Community Inclusion: Bridging the Digital Divide - This website is a report of a project undertaken by the Institute for Community
Inclusion to encourage more people to use the Internet.
- AbleNet - A website that offers a variety of assistive technology devices.
- Arkansas ICAN - This website is a statewide program designed to provide assistive technology to
Arkansas residents.
- CATEA - A website that leads to the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access.
An organization dedicated to the improved mobility, activity, and health of people
with disabilities.
- Don Johnston Inc. - A website that specializes in assistive technology directed at helping people learn
to read and write.
- Google Chrome Accessibilty Extensions - This article lists several useful extensions that can be added to the Google Chrome
browser to improve accessibility for special needs individuals.
- Selvas BLV - This website offers assistive technology for people who are blind or have vision
loss, including hand-held magnifiers and Braille note takers.
- HITEC - This website leads to a company that provides amplified phones.
- LATAN - This website leads to the Louisiana Assistive Technology Action Network.
- NMTAP - This website leads to the New Mexico Technology Assistance Program.
- Pointing Magnifier Download - Follow this link to download a cursor which will magnify selected portions of a
computer screen.
- Rehab Tool - A website that offers a variety of assistive technology devices.
- RESNA - This website leads to the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society
of North America.
- Section 508 - A website devoted to Section 508, a government enactment which concerns the development
of assistive technologies.
- Texas Technology Access Program - This website goes to a statewide program to provide assistive technology for Texans
with disabilities.
- Deaf Network of Texas - The Deaf Network of Texas is the largest Deaf Community Resources & Newsletter
in Texas & surrounding states.
- Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT) - PEAT is a multi-faceted initiative promoting the employment, retention, and career
advancement of people with disabilities through the development, adoption, and promotion
of accessible technology.
- NADTC - This website aims to promote the availability and accessibility of transportation
options for older adults, people with disabilities, and caregivers.
- Job Accommodation Network (JAN) - This website leads to an organization that provides free guidance on workplace
accommodation for persons who are disabled.
- AMC Movie Theatres - Certain AMC Movie Theaters offer Autism Accommodated viewings to offer improved
social inclusion, “Movie Showings for Guests & Families Living with Autism or Other
Special Needs.”
- Royal Caribean Cruises - Royal Caribbean Cruises offers an Autism Certified Cruise to help ASD Families
assistance with social integration skills.
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Disability Rights & Legal
- ADA National Network - This page contains information, guidance, and training on the Americans with Disabilities
Act.
- Criminal Justice Guidance - This document issued by the US Justice Department titled “Examples and Resources
to Support Criminal Justice Entities in Compliance with Title II of the Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA)” is intended to facilitate criminal justice entities'
compliance with the ADA during interactions with individuals with mental health disabilities
or intellectual or developmental disabilities (I/DD).
- Americans with Disabilities Act - The home page of the Americans with Disabilities Act. On this page, the provisions
of the act are included in their entirety.
- Entering the World of Work: What Youth with Mental Health Needs Should Know About
Accommodations - This website is an article angled toward youth with mental disabilities who are
planning to enter the workforce.
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - The official website for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which seeks
to eliminate employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, age, or disability.
- Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) - Official website of the Office of Disability Employment Policy, which seeks to
ensure that people with disabilities are fully integrated into the workforce.
- Disability Discrimination - This website has a description of what constitutes disability discrimination.
- Disability Discrimination Information - This website has a description of disability discrimination which includes examples
of discrimination, laws pertaining to discrimination, and accommodations an employer
can make to avoid discrimination.
- Disability Scoop - This website is a news source for developmental disability news.
- People-First Language Style Guide - This Journalist-Oriented style guide contains recommendations for using language
related to people with disabilities.
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Education & Academic Planning
- Think College - Think College is a national organization committed to advancing and enhancing inclusive
higher education opportunities for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
- Campus Tours - This website offers virtual campus tours of many colleges and universities.
- University of North Texas: Office of Disability Access - This website is the homepage for UNT's Office of Disability Access where you can
learn more and apply for services.
- We Connect Now - A website that offers information and support for college students who have disabilities.
- Going to College - This website contains information about living college life with a disability.
It's designed for high school students and provides video clips, activities and additional
resources that can help you get a head start in planning for college.
- How to Study - This website contains studying tips.
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Employment & Jobs
- Employment First: The Texas Initiative - This webinar provides an overview of the 83rd Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill
1226 which established Employment-First Policy for the State of Texas. This legislation
set Texas on a new path designed to establish a statewide priority to support people
with a disabilities to obtain work in a typical community job setting or in a small
business of their own.
- Employment First: A National Initiative - This webinar provides an overview of the Employment First initiative to include
people with disabilities as contributing members of the workforce and examines national
trends associated with the implementation of the initiative.
- Association of People Supporting EmploymentFirst (APSE) - This website leads to a national organization that focuses entirely on integrated
employment and career advancement for people with disabilities.
- Getting Hired - This is a website that lists employers who are committed to hiring applicants who
have disabilities.
- Do2Learn: Job Tips - JobTIPS is an online student program, offers real world examples and assistance
to teens and adults transitioning to the workplace. It provides learning resources,
guided exercises, graphic organizers, role-playing scenario cards, prescreening tests,
video tutorials, and visual prompts to help individuals with any learning style get
and keep a job.
- The Campaign for Disability Employment - The Campaign for Disability Employment (CDE) is a collaborative effort funded by
the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). It brings
together several disability and business organizations to promote the hiring, retention,
and advancement of individuals with disabilities in America's workforce.
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Career Development & Transition
- O-Net Online - This website leads to a job exploration tool that includes descriptions of a wide
variety of occupations.
- Texas Career Check - Texas Career Check is an easy to use tool which allows users to collect career
information and job data by researching occupation titles, career clusters, Foundation
High School Program endorsement areas, or keywords. They can also research any college
or university in the U.S. by searching institution names, states or programs of study.
- Disability Starter Kits - This website is a resource offered by the Social Security Administration that provides
information for people with disabilities who are applying for benefits for the first
time.
- Going to College - This website is a resource for teenagers with disabilities. It includes information
on how to select the proper college, as well as how to plan for the transition.
- Youth as Self Advocates (YASA) - This website leads to an organization that encourages the practice of self-advocacy
among youth with disabilities.
- Texas Parent to Parent - Texas Parent to Parent (TxP2P) is committed to improving the lives of Texas children
who have disabilities, chronic illness, and/or special health care needs. TxP2P empowers
families to be strong advocates through parent-to-parent support, resource referral,
and education.
- U.S. Department of Labor Division of Youth Services - The Employment and Training Administration's Division of Youth Services is primarily
responsible for coordinating all youth-related workforce activities, providing leadership,
policy direction, program administration, technical assistance and guidance, and support
activities for youth programs authorized under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
of 1998.
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Disability & Health-Related Topics
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Ethics & Disclosure
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Independent Living & Person-Centered Practices
- Life On the Road With Visual Impairments - This is a great resource for individuals with visual impairments.
- Money Geek - This page has financial tools and resources for people with disabilities.
- Independent Living Experience (ILE) - Independent Living Experience (ILE) is a customized support service for adults
desiring a life of independence. Their team of dedicated professionals works directly
with each adult to help them become their own self-determined advocate with the necessary
skills to be successful within their living, working, and social environments.
- Person Centered Planning - "A person centered plan can help those involved with the focus person see the total
person, recognize his or her desires and interests, and discover completely new ways
of thinking about the future of the person." — Beth Mount & Kay Zwernik, 1988
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Employers & Workplace
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Benefits & Financial
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Forms & Documentation
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Veterans
- Benefits.gov - A website designed to help people determine which government benefits they should
apply for.
- Mesothelioma + Asbestos Awareness Center - This website offers free mesothelioma resources and support to veterans and their
families who have been affected by a mesothelioma diagnosis. The prevalence of asbestos
use in the military in the past is the major reason why 1/3 of all mesothelioma patients
are veterans.
- Veteran Readiness and Employment - This page is an article on vocational rehabilitation and employment for veterans
who are disabled.
- Paralyzed Veterans of America - Paralyzed Veterans of America is an advocacy organization for veterans who have
been paralyzed during service.
- United States Department of Veteran's Affairs - This leads to the homepage for the US Department of Veteran's Affairs.
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Entrepreneurship & Special Programs
- The Abilities Fund - This website leads to an organization devoted to the entrepreneurship and economic
advancement of persons with disabilities.
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