Important Links to the Community

ATA The Alliance for Technology Access

The Alliance for Technology Access (ATA) is a network of community-based Resource Centers, Developers, Vendors and Associates dedicated to providing information and support services to children and adults with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard, assistive, and information technologies. ATA Members can be found all across the country. We hope that this web site will let you get to know us a little better, make use of our resources, contact one of our members and perhaps consider joining us in achieving our mission of "connecting children and adults with disabilities to technology tools."

City of Seattle

Link to Guide Dogs of America Guide Dogs of America invites you to join the partnership! As wonderful as modern technology is, no invention comes close to the incredible accomplishments of a bright, willing, well-trained guide dog. Since its founding through donations by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union in 1948, Guide Dogs of America in Sylmar, California has helped blind men and women recover their ability to move freely and regain independence through partnership with these remarkable animals.

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Seattle Community Network

The Seattle Community Network (SCN) is a free public-access computer network for exchanging and accessing information. Beyond that, however, it is a service conceived for community empowerment. Our principles are a series of commitments to help guide the ongoing development and management of the system for both the organizers and participating individuals and organizations.

Seattle Public Library

LEAP Library Equal Access Program

LEAP was established to make the Seattle Public Library a valuable resource for Library patrons who have a disability.

Through the use of adaptive equipment and specialized Library services, Blind, Deaf, Deaf-Blind, Hard of Hearing, and Visually-Impaired patrons can participate in Library programs and access Library resources in an accessible format.

LEAP patrons have access to popular fiction, newspapers, biographies, compact discs, information about local government, cookbooks, videos, etc. Using LEAP's adaptive resources, LEAP patrons benefit from the Library's collection of more than a million items not otherwise available in print, Braille, or sound recordings.

For more information about LEAP, please contact the Program Coordinator, Cleo Brooks, at 206-386-4690 v/tty, or e-mail cleo.brooks@spl.org.

WCCD Washington Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities

Washington Coallition of Citizens with Disabilities promotes equality and choice of people with disabilities through advocacy, collaboration, and programs..

Our Philosophical Assumption

That real "handicaps" are not the person's impairments, but rather the barriers which coulb be eliminated gien changes in design, policy and procedures, behaviors and attitued.

Our operating Goals and Assumptions

To empower people with disAbilities of all kinds-not just mobility, not just devedlopmental, neurological, sensory, cognitive, mental or psychological-but all!

To educate the community to focus on each person'Abilities, rather than on impairments or assistive devices said person may have.

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