Useful Links

Disabilities

• anAurora
  http://www.anaurora.co.uk - Internet magazine for disABLE women.
• BBC: See Hear
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/see_hear - Website of the weekly magazine programme for deaf and hard of hearing people, produced in sign language with open subtitles.
• British Council of disabled People
  http://www.bcodp.org.uk - BCODP are an umbrella organisation that represents some 136 disabled people's groups (April 1999) at the national level.
• British Deaf Association
  http://www.britishdeafassociation.org.uk - The BDA is committed to developing its online resources and to providing up to date information.
• British Sign Language Alphabet
  http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ian.barnsley/bslsite/bslindex.html - Animated A to Z.
• Directgov - information for disabled people and carers
  http://www.direct.gov.uk/disability - Directgov provides a single point of online access to government services and information - including employment, financial support, rights, education, independent living and much more.
• Disability Rights Commission
  http://www.drc-gb.org - Aims to eliminate discrimination against disabled people.
• Disability World
  http://www.disabilityworld.com - Has information on hotels, charities, mobility aids, etc.
• Epilepsy Association for Scotland
  http://www.epilepsyscotland.org.uk - EAS campaigns for more epilepsy services across Scotland.
• firsthand
  http://www.1sthand.org.uk - A friendly, flexible, responsive service, giving breaks, opportunities and support to one parent families and carers of disabled adults or children, reducing isolation and stress (formerly known as Edinburgh Sitters).
• Lead Scotland
  http://www.lead.org.uk - Linking Education and Disability.
• National Centre for Tactile Diagrams
  http://www.nctd.org.uk - providing tactile diagrams maps and pictures materials for blind and visually impaired people for education, work and leisure.
• Norah Fry Research Centre
  http://www.bris.ac.uk/norahfry/ - part of the University of Bristol's Department of Mental Health. Its principal interests are the evaluation and development of services for people with learning difficulties.
• Scottish Sensory Centre
  http://www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk - promotes and supports new developments and effective practices in the education of children and young people with sensory impairments ie visual, hearing or dual (deafblindness) sensory impairment.
• Wheelchair travel
  http://www.wheelchair-travel.co.uk - Provides a unique service, in solving the private transport needs of disabled people either resident in, or visiting the UK from overseas.