Rehabilitation Medicine Links

• Assistive Technology Resources
• Associations, Canadian
• Associations, American
• Associations, International
• Audiology and Deafness
• Developmental Disability
• General Rehabilitation and Disability Resources
• Physical Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Speech-Language Pathology

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES

• AbleData: Explore the World of Assistive Technology (sponsored by the NIDRR) http://www.abledata.com/
• Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC; University of Toronto) http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/
• Alliance for Technology Access http://www.ataccess.org/
• Assistive Technology Worldwide Database http://home.istar.ca/~marshall/database/index.htm
• Australian Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Association http://www.ataccess.org/
• Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) http://www.cast.org/
• Cornucopia of Disability Information (CODI) http://codi.buffalo.edu/
• Center for Assisitive Technology (University of Buffalo) http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/hrp/ot/cat/index.htm
• RESNA: Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America http://www.resna.org/
• Virtual Assistive Technology Center: Putting computers within reach of individuals with disabilities http://www.at-center.com

ASSOCIATIONS, Canadian

• Alberta Association for Community Living (AACL) http://www.aacl.org/
• Alberta Lung Association (ALA) http://www.ab.lung.ca/
• Alberta Physiotherapy Association (APA) http://www.albertaphysio.org/
• Alzheimer Society of Alberta http://www.alzheimer.ab.ca/
• Alzheimer Society of Canada http://www.alzheimer.ca/
• Association for the Neurologically Disabled of Canada (AND) http://www.and.ca/
• Arthritis Society http://www.arthritis.ca/home.html
• British Columbia Society of Occupational Therapists (BCSOT) http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/bcsot/
• Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL) http://www.cacl.ca
• Canadian Association for People Who Stutter http://webcon.net/~caps/
• Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT) http://www.caot.ca/
• Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLP) http://www.caslpa.ca/
• Canadian Arthritis Network http://www.arthritis.ca/can/
• Canadian Hard of Hearing Association (CHHA) http://www.chha.ca/
• Canadian Hearing Society (CHS) http://www.chs.ca/
• Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) http://www.cmha.ca/
• Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) http://www.cnib.ca/
• Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA) http://www.canparaplegic.org/
• Canadian Paraplegic Association: Alberta (CPA Alberta) http://www.canparaplegic.org/ab/
• Canadian Physiotherapy Association (CPA) http://www.physiotherapy.ca/
• Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) http://www.csep.ca/
• College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario (COTO) http://www.coto.org/
• College of Physical Therapists of Alberta (CPTA) http://www.cpta.ab.ca/
• College of Physiotherapists of Ontario http://www.collegept.org/
• Hanen Centre: Helping Children Communicate http://www.hanen.org/
• Hearing Foundation of Canada http://www.thfc.ca/
• Learning Disabilities Association of Canada (LDAC) http://www.ldac-taac.ca/
• Ontario Association for Community Living (OACL) http://www.oacl.on.ca/
• Ontario Brain Injury Association (OBIA) http://www.obia.on.ca/
• Ontario Physiotherapy Association (OPA) http://www.opa.on.ca/
• Ontario Society of Occupational Therapists (OSOT) http://www.osot.on.ca/
• Persons with Developmental Disabilities, Alberta (PDD) http://www.pdd.org/
• Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia (PABC) http://www.bcphysio.org/
• Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada (TSFC) http://www.tourette.ca/
• Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada (TVAC) http://www.thalidomide.ca/

ASSOCIATIONS, American

• Acoustical Society of America (ASA) http://asa.aip.org/
• Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AGBELL) http://www.agbell.org/
• American Academy of Audiology http://www.audiology.org/
• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) http://www.aacap.org/
• American Academy of Private Practice in Speech Pathology and Audiology (AAPPSPA) http://www.aappspa.org/
• American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) http://www.acrm.org/
• American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) http://www.aota.org/
• American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF) http://www.aotf.org/
• American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) http://www.apta.org/
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) http://www.asha.org/
• American Spine Injury Association (ASIA) http://www.asia-spinalinjury.org/home/index.html
• American Tinnitus Association (ATA) http://www.ata.org/
• Aphasia Hope Foundation http://www.aphasiahope.org/
• ARC of the United States (a national organization on mental retardation) http://www.thearc.org/
• Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) http://www.aro.org/
• Cervical Spine Research Society (CSRS) http://www.csrs.org/
• Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) http://www.chadd.org/
• Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation http://www.apacure.com/
• Learning Disabilities Association (LDA) http://www.ldanatl.org/
• National Aphasia Association (NAA) http://www.aphasia.org/
• National Association of Developmental Disabilities Councils (NADCC) http://www.naddc.org/
• National Association of the Deaf (NAD) http://www.nad.org/
• National Center for Voice and Speech (NCVS) http://www.ncvs.org/
• National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
• National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/NIDRR/
• North American Spine Society (NASS) http://www.spine.org/
• Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) http://www.ors.org/
• Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH) http://www.hearingloss.org/
• Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) http://www.srs.org/

ASSOCIATIONS, International

• Association of Occupational Therapist in Mental Health (AOTMH) http://www.profbriefings.co.uk/assoc/aotmh.htm
• British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT) http://www.baot.co.uk/
• Disabled Peoples' International (DPI) http://www.escape.ca/~dpi/
• International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS) http://www.issls.org/
• International Society of Educators in Physiotherapy (ISEP) http://www.isep.org.au/
• National Academy for Child Development (NACD) http://www.nacd.org/
• South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association (SASLHA) http://www.saslha.co.za/
• World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) http://www.wfot.org.au/

AUDIOLOGY AND DEAFNESS

• Audiology Information Network (collection of audiology links) http://www.audiologyinfo.com/
• Better Hearing Institute http://www.betterhearing.org/
• Boys Town National Research Hospital (research and treatment of childhood deafness and communication disorders) http://www.boystown.org/Btnrh/Index.htm
• Gallaudet University (university designed exclusively for deaf and hard of hearing students) http://www.gallaudet.edu/
• Hardin MD Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Links http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/speech.html
• Hearing and Hearing Disorders (Minnesota State University) http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/comdis/kuster2/audiology.html
• National Centre for Audiology (University of Western Ontario) http://www.uwo.ca/nca/
• NIDCD National Institute on Deafness and Other Cummunication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
• Virtual Tour of the Ear (Augustana College, South Dakota) http://ctl.augie.edu/perry/ear/earnonframes.htm

DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY

• Autism Resources http://www.autism-resources.com
• Beach Center on Families and Disability (University of Kansas) http://www.beachcenter.org/
• DDRC: The Developmental Disabilities Resource Centre of Calgary http://www.ddrcc.com/
• Down Syndrome WWW page: Understanding the Gift of Life http://www.nas.com/downsyn/
• Indiana Institute on Disability and Community (Indiana University) http://www.isdd.indiana.edu/
• John F. Kennedy Center: for Research on Human Development (Vanderbilt University) http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/kennedy/
• JP Das Developmental Disability Centre (University of Alberta) http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/ddc/INDEX.html
• Persons With Developmental Disabilities (services for persons with developmental disabilities in Alberta) http://www.pdd.org/
• Waisman Center (developmental disabilities center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/index.html

GENERAL REHABILITATION AND DISABILITY RESOURCES

• Alberta Rehabilitation Continuous Learning Network http://www.arcln.ualberta.ca/
• Canadian Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation (CACR) http://www.cacr.ca/
• Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW) http://www.ccrw.org/
• CORD Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (University of British Columbia) http://cord.ubc.ca/
• Disabilities (NOAH: New York Online Access to Health) http://www.noah-health.org/english/illness/disability/disability.html
• Disability Resources (NSNET: Nova Scotia Community Organization Network) http://www.nsnet.org/resource.html
• The Disability Resources Monthly (DRM) Guide to Disability Resources on the Internet http://www.disabilityresources.org/
• EmployAbilities: Employment Resources for Persons With Physical Disabilities http://www.employabilities.ab.ca/index1.htm
• Handitel (links to international sites with information on disabilities) http://www.socialnet.lu/handitel/
• Hardin MD Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Physical Disabilities Links http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/phys.html
• HealthWeb's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Links http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=74
• Indie The Integrated Network of Disability Information & Education http://laurence.canlearn.ca/english/learn/accessguide/indie/index.html
• NARIC The National Rehabilitation Information Center http://www.naric.com/
• ReHabWorld.com http://www.rehabworld.com
• Spinal Cord Research Centre (University of Manitoba) http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/

• Internet Mental Health http://www.mentalhealth.com/
• Occupational Therapy Evidence-Based Practice Group (McMaster University) http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/rehab/ebp/
• Occupational Therapy World http://www.rehabworld.com/rwotdex.htm
• Online Ergonomics Resources (University of Michigan) http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/ioe/C4E/links.html
• OTWorks.com http://www.otworks.com/
• Web of Addictions http://www.well.com/user/woa/

PHYSICAL THERAPY

• Charlie Kornberg's Physio Homepage (resources for Physical Therapists) http://physio.web.com/
• PEDro: The Physiotherapy Evidence Database http://ptwww.cchs.usyd.edu.au/pedro/
• Physical Therapist Online http://www.physicaltherapist.com/
• Physiotherapy Global Links http://ptglobal.net/index.html
• Physical Therapy - The Web Space http://automailer.com/tws/
• Physical Therapy World http://www.rehabworld.com/rwptdex.htm
• PTCentral http://www.ptcentral.com/

• Communication Disorders.NET http://www.communicationdisorders.net/
• Dysphagia Resource Centre http://www.dysphagia.com/
• Hanen Centre: Helping Children Communicate http://www.hanen.org/
• Hardin MD Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Links http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/speech.html
• Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research (ISTAR: University of Alberta) http://www.ualberta.ca/~istar/
• John's Speech Web http://www.speedline.ca/johnv/home.html
• Net Connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences (Minnesota State University) http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/comdis/kuster2/welcome.html
• Speech and Language Milestone Chart (Learning Disabilities Association of America Fact Sheet) http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/speech-language/lda_milestones.html
• Speech Language Pathologist Website http://www.slpsite.com
• Speech Language Pathology World http://www.rehabworld.com/rwstdex.htm
• The Stuttering Home Page http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/comdis/kuster/stutter.html
• Voice, Speech and Language (NIDCD Fact Sheets) http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/