www.apd-india.org - the site was given the 2008 website of the year award under the non profit site category. It is easy to access and extremely comprehensive. APD is a Bangalore based organization working for children, youth and adults with various types of disabilities.
www.goingtoschool.com - Going to School’s message is that “school can be fun” and to spread the message they have created one fun website, which is full of colour and graphics and simultaneously gives you all the information you require on how to help them.
http://www.blvd.com/ - If you are looking for products, for the physically challenged, elderly, caregivers and healthcare professionals, then this is the site for you!
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Disabilities/ - From types of disabilities to institutes offering courses in speech therapy and physiotherapy etc, the website offers it all. The information though is not very extensive but is easy to avail and understand
http://umc.once.es/ - The World Blind Union (WBU) is a platform which brings together brings together major organizations of blind persons and those providing services and programs to them from around the world. The site is useful to get contacts of organizations within a desired country.
www.disabilityindia.org/ - The Disability India Network is a one-stop site for comprehensive information related to disability in India and across the globe, the site is hosted by the Society for Child Development. One can get information regarding job vacancies, hospitals, schools and organizations that offer facilities and services to people with disabilities.
http://www.ncpedp.org/ - The one feature that stands out in this site is that it is very comprehensive and friendly. It provides guidelines on how to make your corporate organization more disable friendly, it offers self employment schemes, tells you about scholarships available and also provides a guidance cell where Supreme Court lawyers and legal experts answer your queries on the rights of a people with disabilities.
ted.com: This site features talks by the world's leading thinkers and doers. Truly inspiring and educative!
The speech featured in this link in particular is universally relevant: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Teaching Tips.com: This is one great site! it is an ultimate guide to special needs teaching, compiled from many organisations working on disability issues. Pamphlets, posters, booklets, etc. you name it and its there! Also for some great ideas for teaching, awareness and after-school activities
Online Writing Lab: This fabulous website helps teach crucial English grammar rules and gives fantastic recommendations for those trying to compose any sort of paper. As anyone working in the NGO sector will have to pen letters, articles, or grant requests, this invaluable link will help you find what you need.
Foundation for a Better Life: For those who need to be inspired, this website offers quotes, vignettes, stories, and short films to lift up the human spirit. It is an excellent motivational tool, and thoroughly fun to explore.
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities: This website offers in depth descriptions of many types of disability. While it is written for an American audience—a fact that impacts the legal side of the information provided—it gives excellent tips to parents and teachers about how to help children with special needs excel.
Zigawhat!: This website is for children with special needs. Offering a forum for discussion and valuable links for children to explore, it is a great resource for parents and kids alike.
Action for Autism is an active and useful site for parents, professionals and people with autism. It is the best known and most up-to-date site for information on autism in India, though it also covers upcoming conferences and seminars on a wide range of topics of interest to people dealing with other disabilities as well.
Ummeed is a very good site for basic information about a wide range of developmental disabilities, written by professionals with years of experience in their disciplines.
Heartsprings is a wonderful site, stumbled upon (what else?) by accident, but one to go back to again and again for its lovely design and beautiful photos of children with disabilities and the inspiring stories they create through their lives and the lives of those they touch.
Akanksha is a vibrant children’s organization, dedicated to the idea that kids need and deserve to have fun, good times and education – all at once. Started with 15 children in one Mumbai slum, it has grown to serve nearly five thousand kids in Mumbai and Pune, all from very poor families. The site is colorful and inspiring, full of stories of real lives and real change.
hazardscentre.org is a professional support group and resource centre based in Delhi. It provides consultancy services to mass and community organizations working on issues of development and environment. We include it here because of its insistence on the need to learn from the most vulnerable in our society – the poor, the marginalized, the creative people who exist on 80 rupees a day and still remember how to share and how to dance.
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