Inspiration
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. Providing medically-supervised summer camps and programs free of charge to children with serious illnesses and their families throughout the Northeast.
https://www.holeinthewallgang.org
Alive Inside. A documentary demonstrating music’s ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it.
http://www.aliveinside.us/#land
Life Without Limbs with Nick Vujicic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOzsjEmjjHs http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/about-life-without-limbs/ http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Overcoming-hopelessness-Nick-Vu
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. The film of journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby. It describes what his life is like after suffering a massive stroke that left him with locked-in syndrome. It also details what his life was like before the stroke.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401383/
Ted Talk featuring Amy Purdy who became a professional snowboarder despite losing both her legs to meningitis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2QZM7azGoA
Resources
Equipment
Wheel it Forward. A Connecticut not-for-profit library that enables anyone to easily borrow or donate durable medical equipment, assistive technology and related products.
https://www.wheelitforwardusa.org/
Recycling medical supplies to improve global health
https://www.partnersforworldhealth.org
Organizations and Services
CPAC. The Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center mission is to educate, support, and empower Connecticut's diverse families of children and youth with any disability or chronic conditions, ages birth to 26, and the professionals who serve them.
https://cpacinc.org
Protection & Advocacy agencies (P&As) comprise the nation's largest provider of legally-based advocacy services for people with disabilities.
https://acl.gov/programs/find-your-pa-agency
Joni and Friends International Disability Center
http://www.joniandfriends.org/
Assistive Technology Finance Loan Programs in Connecticut
http://www.resnaprojects.org/allcontacts/allafpcontacts.html
Closing the Gap. An international assistive technology conference and professional development platform for year-round learning.
http://www.closingthegap.com/
Life Without Limbs
http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/about-nick/bio/
Blindness
The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
http://www.afb.org/default.aspx
The New England Consortium for Deafblind Technical Assistance And Training
http://www.nec4db.org/home.html
Deaf and Hard of Hearing
A comprehensive list of organizations for Children and Adults who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing from the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
https://www.gallaudet.edu/clerc-center/info-to-go/national-resources-and-directories/organizations.html
Know Your Rights!
The Americans with Disabilities Act
https://www.ada.gov
The ADA Coalition of Connecticut (ADACC). ADACC is the only organization in Connecticut singularly devoted to educating individuals with disabilities, businesses, and governmental entities about the ADA.
https://www.ada.gov
The ADA Amendments Act of 2008
http://www.ada.gov/2010_regs.htm
What families with students should know about The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Educational_Rights_and_Privacy_Act
Dementia
Beloved Music Can Renew Lives Lost to Dementia
http://musicandmemory.org/
Locked-In-Syndrome
Software