Sites:
| Equip for Equality: Private, non-profit organization that operates the federally mandated Protection & Advocacy System for Illinois, which protects the rights of children and adults with physical and mental disabilities. Text only and spanish version available. | | Illinois Assistive Technology Project: Includes information on programs and services, equipment demonstrations and loans, visual and audio communication devices, support and networking, and contacts. | | Illinois Association of Rehabilitation Facilities (IARF): Presents information about the organization and promotes community services to persons with disabilities. Features its services and programs, publications, training, career center, and contacts. | | Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities (ICDD): State agency focused on improving the lives of people with developmental disabilities through advocacy, systemic change and capacity building. | | Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission: State agency created to safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities. Features statutory acts, legislative updates, legal forms to use, online intake form, and links. | | Learning Disabilities Association of Illinois: A not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the education and general welfare of children and youth of normal or potentially normal intelligence who have learning disabilities of a perceptual, conceptual or coordinative nature or related problems. | | Lions of Illinois Foundation: Assists the quality of residents having unmet needs, especially for the detection, treatment, and rehabilitation of visual and hearing impairments. Includes overview of programs and services, and contacts. | | Little Friends, Inc.: Non-profit organization serving children and adults with autism and other developmental or emotional disabilities. Programs include early intervention, schools, family support, job training, and community-based residential services. | | Mothers from Hell 2: Grass-roots parent advocacy group, working for the appropriate education, community acceptance, needed services, rights of, and entitlements for individuals with disabilities. Resources, newsletter, membership, and contacts. Based in German Valley. | | RAMP Center for Independent Living: Regional Access and Mobilization Project, Inc., providing services and advocacy for people with disabilities. Serving Boone, DeKalb, Stephenson and Winnebago counties. |
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