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Nation Aphasia Association - The NAA's mission is to educate the public to know that the word aphasia describes an impairment of the ability to communicate, not an impairment of intellect. The NAA makes people with aphasia, their families, support systems, and health care professionals aware of resources to recover lost skills to the extent possible, to compensate for skills that will not be recovered and to minimize the psychosocial impact of the language impairment.

Study to compare rates, nature, and mechanisms of school injuries in children with and without disabilities. Conclusions: For children with disabilities, physical impairment may play a greater role than cognitive impairment in managing risk for injury at school. Individual education programs (IEP), developed for children in special education, could be tailored to include injury prevention strategies.

Develops, manufactures and markets technology based products that provide equal access to information and computing for those with vision impairments or learning disabilities

The congressional legislation that created the National Eye Institute (NEI) mandates research on amelioration of the impact of impaired vision and blindness on health and well- being. The current NEI research program on visual impairment and its rehabilitation can be divided into six areas. Laboratory research is a fundamental yet often underappreciated pillar of research on visual impairment and blindness. A major goal of this area is to develop a scientific basis for understanding normal visual functioning that can be extended to explain the disabilities experienced by people with low vision, blindness, and other visual processing deficits.

Oxfordjournals.org - Brain - Focal basal ganglia lesions are associated with impairment sin reward-based reversal learning

Promote and provides equal access to communication and learning for students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. Provides training resources for new and experienced captioning vendors-the Captioning Key for Educational Media-and description vendors-the Description Key for Educational Media. The DCMP is an idea that works thanks to funding by the U.S. Department of Education and administration by the National Association of the Deaf.

Boston University - Neuromuscular Research Center - established in October 1984. Its mission is to increase our understanding of human motor control and improve the quality of life for the neuromuscularly impaired. It pursues these goals by performing basic and applied research, and by developing new techniques and technology in electromyography and biomechanics. The NMRC has active collaborations with various hospitals and clinics in the Boston area as well as research groups in seven countries throughout the world.

National Association of Special Education Teachers - Comprehensive Overview of Other Health Impairments

The mission of the ASNR is to promote the medical and social wellbeing of persons with disabling neurological disorders, to advance training and research in the basic and clinical sciences that can lead to functional recovery of neurologically impaired persons, and to disseminate the knowledge of this research among professionals and the general public.

American Academy of Pediatrics Publications

Promotes the health and well-being of people living with a spinal cord injury, mobility impairment and paralysis by providing comprehensive information, resources and referral services.

"The Center for Assistive Technology, conducts research, education, and service to increase knowledge about assistive devices for persons with functional impairments of all ages. The Center works in four related areas: Research, Development, Transfer, and Commercialization of advanced technologies and assistive devices; Education Programs for professionals, students, and consumers; Client Assessment Training Services in computer access for education & employment; Dissemination of best practices and information about assistive technology devices and services"

WGBH has been pioneering and delivering accessible media to disabled people for more than 30 years.

AFB AccessWorld - News, publications, reviews. Technology for People who are Blind or Visually Impaired

Supplier in the field of electronic equipment for the blind and visually impaired

CAP works closely with service members across the nation to ensure they receive appropriate assistive technology for their needs, including vision or hearing loss, dexterity impairments,and cognitive difficulties. In August 2008 the Department of Defense Instruction, Assistive Technology (AT) for Wounded Service Members (DoDI 6025.22 (PDF)) was signed, establishing policy for AT programs in the Military Health System

News - disability arts online - Disability Arts Online "DAO" showcases disability and deaf arts, profiles artists and offers informative critical evaluation, serving the development of disability arts in the UK and worldwide. dao is fuelled by disabled and deaf artists, performers, writers and musicians working across art forms with a passion for saying something relevant about disability and impairment.

Sports and Recreation for All Seasons. Adaptive Adventures has something for everyone. Offers progressive programs for children, teens, adults, as well as service members (active duty and veteran) who have been severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan or other conflicts. Programs cover a wide-range of physical disabilities including people with spinal cord injuries, amputations, Cerebral Palsy, traumatic brain injuries (TBI), spina bifida, and visual impairment.

Custom-builds mobility devices for individuals with disabilities such as Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida, Muscular Dystrophy, Angelman Syndrome, Rett Syndrome, and visually impaired. Freedom Concepts Inc. (FCI) custom designed tricycles, walkers and chairs provide mobility and therapeutic benefits for thousands of special needs individuals throughout Canada and the U.S.

Stanford Clinical Trial and study Optimizing Assisted Communication Devices for Children with Motor Impairments using a model of Information Rate and Channel Capacity