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Digital Accessibility Toolkit: What Education Leaders Need to Know
Digital Accessibility Toolkit: What Education Leaders Need to Know is a toolkit with information on how to incorporate accessibility into education. This resource for educators includes accessibility for: Materials – Curricula...
Explore Access: Tools for Promoting Disability Access and Inclusion
Explore Access is a website that includes various toolkits and handouts to promote disability access and inclusion. Toolkits include: Access to Mental Health Access to Victim Services Creating Accessible Documents Disability as...
Social Security Policy Information Site
This section of the SSA Program Policy Information Site contains the public version of the Program Operations Manual System (POMS). The POMS is a primary source of information used by Social Security employees to process claims for...
Return-to-Work Toolkit: Information for Employers About Relevant Laws
The Return-to-Work Toolkit: Information for Employers About Relevant Laws from the Office of Disability Employment Policy is a listing of laws that protect workers who have been injured or developed a health condition and are protected...
Paying for Senior Care
The Paying for Senior Care website is designed to help families and caregivers locate information about senior care resources for their loved ones, and to find the public and private programs available to assist in covering the cost of...
Your Vote Counts: A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Voting in the U.S.
ASAN’s Self-Advocate Guide to Voting in the U.S. toolkit focuses on the process of voting, and understanding how to prepare to vote on election day. This toolkit answers questions many first time voters have, such as: What is...
Deaf Verse
Deafverse is designed to strengthen deaf teenagers’ self-determination skills and is based on choose-your-own-adventure games, which offer a safe environment to apply critical thinking skills while engaging in problem-based learning by...
Benefits Finder
Benefits.gov recently released a new Benefit Finder tool that makes it easier for people with disabilities to find information on government benefits. Benefit Finder is an online questionnaire that recommends benefits which consumers...
Least Restrictive Approaches to Supporting Individuals as Decision Makers
Too often full guardianship is the default option for people who need assistance with decision-making, which is very restrictive. There are alternative approaches to guardianship that are flexible and can adapt to the changing needs an...
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