Selected Resources for Modifying Materials for People with Cognitive Disabilities

Cognitive and developmental disabilities resources
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/www/mrsites.html

Communication etiquette suggested for people with cognitive disabilities
http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/Files/accommodations_ddaspergers5.htm

Computer-assisted training & cognitive rehabilitation in traumatic brain injuries
(Dr. Mary Ann Keatley, EASI Webcast)
http://easi.cc/media/cat.htm

Diversifying Consumer Representation in Independent Living: Involving People with Cognitive Disabilities
http://www.ilru.org/ilnet/files/manuals/Cog.Dis.txt

Hibbard, M., Gordon, W. A., Martin, T., Raskin, B. & Brown, M. (2001). Students with traumatic brain injury: Identification, assessment and classroom accommodations. Available online:
http://www.mssm.edu/tbinet/alt/pubs/pubs17.html

Learning Disabilities and Information Technology (EASI online course)
http://easi.cc/workshops/ld.htm

Self-Advocacy Start-Up Tool Kit. Self-Advocacy Development Committee, Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE). Available from the Center on Human Policy, Syracuse University, 805 S. Crouse Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244-2280.

Starks, J. and Higgins, C. (2001). User-friendly materials and alternate formats. Austin: SEDL. Available online:
   HTML:   http://www.ncddr.org/du/products/ufm/ufm.html 
   PDF       http://www.ncddr.org/du/products/ufm/user_friendly4.pdf

TASH Connections: Volume 28, Issue Number 3/4 (March/April 2002) "Where Research, Advocacy, and Values Meet" Volume 28, Issue Number 11/12 (November/December 2002) "Opening the Doors to Technology for All People"

Working effectively with persons who have cognitive disabilities
 http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/extension/files/download/Cognitive_Disabilities.pdf

Internet/Web Accessibility

Accessible Web design
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Resources/web-design.html

Accessible Web page design
http://www.makoa.org/web-design.htm

Cognitive disability and the Web
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/dixa/hci-education/cog-dis/green.html

Designing for users with cognitive disabilities
http://www.otal.umd.edu/UUGuide/erica/ (Erica Kolatch, April 2000)
http://www.otal.umd.edu/uupractice/cognition/ (Kanta Jiwani, April 2001)

Guidelines for creating accessible electronic materials
http://www.deakin.edu.au/div_its/web/documentation/accessibility/guidelines.doc

How people with disabilities use the Web. W3C Working Draft, 4 January 2001
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/

Inclusion of cognitive disabilities in the Web accessibility movement Lisa Seeman, GlobalFormats.com, ablefish.com
http://www2002.org/CDROM/alternate/689/

Telecommunications problems and design strategies for people with cognitive disabilities
   HTML:   http://www.wid.org/archives/telecom/index.html
   PDF:      http://www.wid.org/archives/telecom/Telecom.pdf

Annotated Bibliography
http://www.wid.org/archives/telecom/appendix2.html

The Internet­An inclusive magnet for teaching all students
http://www.wid.org/archives/handbook.pdf

"Understanding Web accessibility." Shawn Lawton Henry, in Thatcher, J., Bohman, P., Burks, M., Henry, S. L., Regan, B., Swerenta, S., Urban, M. D., Waddell, C. M. (2002). Constructing accessible Web sites. Birmingham, U.K.: glasshaus.
 http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/pub/acc_sites_chap01.pdf 

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