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rights of disabled persons There exists the perception, however inaccurate, that people with disabilities are unable to live full, colorful, independent lives. People who are missing limbs, or who lack a sensory tool (such as hearing or sight), or who perceive social reality in dramtically different manners may sometimes have to adapt how they do things or interact with other but this does not imply that "the disabled" automatically need special care or assistance. It is when one has been left without the tools to become educated, or who have been discriminated against because of his or her "disability" that such individuals become incapable. Indeed, they would be as as incapable as anyone else denied the opportunity to do what they wish in life. Until such perceptions (mass social delusions, actually) are dispelled, there is a need to guarantee that people with disabilities are ensured the right to accomplish the same as everyone else. Here, then, are some tools to use in working toward equity ADAPT / http://www.adapt.org/ Bazelon Center / focus on mental health issues / http://www.bazelon.org/bazelon/ Council for Disability Rights Guide / http://www.disabilityrights.org/faq.htm Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law / http://www.wcl.american/edu/pub/humright/ The following are two different sites with the same name: Disability Rights Activist / http://www.teleport.com/~abarhydt/ Disability Rights Activist / http://www.disrights.org/dr-tools.html Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund / http://www.dredf.org/index.html EFN’s Human Rights Sites / http://www.efn.org/community/human.html#Disability Justice for All / http://www.mailbot.com/justice/ Kevin Child’s Disability Links / http://home.att.net/~kcisfree/ National [USA] Council on Disability / http://www.ncd.gov World Association of Persons with Disabilities / http://www.wapd.org/ resources for persons with disabilities Accessible Home Design / This AOA (Seniors) site has many useful links to design development for home design for people with disabilities / http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/NAIC/Notes/homedesign.html Assistive Technology: A Desk Reference Guide / http://www.msstate.edu/dept/tkmartin/referenceguide/table_of_contents.htm Americans with Disabilities Document Resource Center / http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/kinder/ Reasonable Accommodations / Online Resource Center / http://www.bu.edu/sarpsych/reasaccom.html TDD/TTY Access to USA Federal Bureaucracies / http://www.gsa.gov/et/fic-firs/ttynbrs/ttyhome.htm documents United Nations Documents / http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html Universal Declaration of Human Rights / gopher://gopher.undp.org/00/unearth/rights.txt publications Monitors / a journal of human rights and technology / http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~monitors/index.html

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