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Autistic Community

Aspergers/Autism Network (AANE): AANE works with individuals, families, and professionals to help people with Asperger Syndrome and similar autism spectrum profiles build meaningful, connected lives
Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN): Promotes understanding of neurodiversity and self-advocacy among autistics; many college-related initiatives and publications
The Autism National Committee (AutCom) is an autism advocacy organization dedicated to "Social Justice for All Autistics" through a shared vision and a commitment to positive approaches to protect and advance the human rights and civil rights of all persons with autism.
The Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN) seeks to provide community, support and resources for Autistic women, girls, nonbinary people, and all others of marginalized genders.

LGBTQIA Resources

Transgender Law Center (TLC) Disability Project: Is focused on promoting and integrating disability, deafness, and anti-ableism policies within the LGBTQ movement and communities.
The National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network: A healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC).
QTPoC Mental Health Emphasizes community healing and hosts meditations for queer & trans people of color (QTPoC), as well promotes space for individuals to publish original art and writing on www.restforresistance.com.
SinsInvalid: A performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.

Access and Civil Rights

ADA National Network: The ADA National Network has regional centers providing resources and assistance for campuses and college students. If you have questions about your rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), call someone at your local center (there is a list of ADA regional centers here).
Access Computing: Based at the University of Washington, college and graduate students with disabilities can connect to mentors and professionals in computing fields, and find internships and potential employment opportunities.
Transgender Law Center (TLC) Disability Project: Is focused on promoting and integrating disability, deafness, and anti-ableism policies within the LGBTQ movement and communities.
The Native American Disability Law Center: Their mission is to ensure that Native Americans with disabilities have access to justice and are empowered and equal members of their communities and nations. Check out their resources page for information more tailored to specific states and territories.
TASH: An international organization working to advance inclusive communities through advocacy, research, professional development, policy, and information and resources for parents, families and self-advocates.
Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD): Professional organization for disability services providers that also hosts the NCCSD, DREAM, and the HBCU Disability Consortium.

Disability Community and Disability Studies

Society for Disability Studies: Like African-American studies and race, women's studies and gender, or other types of "studies" that look at society through different lenses, disability studies professors and researchers look at the world with disability in mind. They publish Disability Studies Quarterly, an open access,multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities.
Disability Intersectionality Summit: Centers the multiple oppressions that shape the lived experiences of disabled individuals, as told by disabled people, in a setting organized by disabled activists.
SinsInvalid: A disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.
Disability Visibility Project: Is an online platform dedicated to advancing disability community as well as creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.
Rooted in Rights: A project of Disability Rights Washington that tells authentic, accessible stories to challenge stigma and redefine narratives around disability, mental health, and chronic illness.
Project LETS: A group with campus chapters that uses principles of disability justice to create peer-led communities for mental illness, trauma, disability, and neurodiversity.
The Harriet Tubman Collective: Collective of Black Deaf & Black Disabled organizers, community builders, activists, dreamers, lovers striving for radical inclusion and collective liberation.

Academia and Disability

Chronically Academic: An international network of academics with disabilities and chronic conditions, sharing resources and advice; welcomes graduate students, adjuncts, and faculty.
Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD): Professional organization for disability services providers that also hosts the NCCSD, DREAM, and the HBCU Disability Consortium.
Coalition for Disability Access in Health Science and Medical Education: This group offers resources for students with disabilities in health science fields, and for Yeahfaculty in any type of medical education program. They also have an annual conference.
American Bar Association Commission on Disability Rights: The Commission has resources, guides, and helpful links for law students, attorneys, and other legal professionals and entities.
Delta Alpha Pi International Honor Society: This is an academic honor society for students with disabilities at colleges and universities, with chapters across the United States.
DO-IT: Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology: Focuses primarily on employment, Internet, and technology; also has an online mentoring program and information for college students.
DREAM: Disability Rights, Education, Activism and Mentoring: DREAM is a student group under the NCCSD at AHEAD, providing online resources and community for all students with disabilities across the country. Offering a weekly e-mail newsletter on disability and higher ed and run by a student board, with a national "Disabled and Proud" conference and other activities.
Lime Connect: Prepares, and connects high potential university students and professionals - including veterans - with disabilities for scholarships, internships, The Lime Connect Fellowship Program, and full time careers with corporate partners.
Mobility International USA: Works on international disability rights and supports travel and study abroad for people with disabilities.

Learning Disabilities

ADHD - Understanding ADHD: A program of CHADD, this site has information for adults with ADHD, families and educators in English and Spanish.
CHADD - The National Resource on ADHD: Provides information and resources for children and adults with ADHD; use the search box to find information about transition to college for students who have ADHD
Eye-to-Eye: Matches college student mentors with LD or ADHD labels with middle school students who have similar labels, as well as leadership opportunities and training.
Headstrong Nation: A movement dedicated to a radical new approach to dyslexia. We empower adult dyslexics to own their dyslexia, to understand it, and to develop new ways of learning and working based on their individual profiles.
The CodPast: A fresh and contemporary online publication for students and adults with Dyslexia. If you’re looking for up to the minute news and views on technology, study skills, employment, events and entertainment

Condition Specific Communities

College Diabetes Network: With campus chapters across the country, this organization works to provide information and support to students living with diabetes.
Epilepsy Foundation: Is a non-profit national foundation dedicated to the welfare of people with epilepsy and seizure disorders. Resources and information, including targeted information for African Americans, Latinx and others is available on their site.
National Association of Blind Students: Part of the National Federation of the Blind, this group offers resources, networking, and opportunities for collective activism.
National Stuttering Association: NSA provides support, friendship, and information, and instills the sense of self-worth for those who stutter. Information for researchers and other professionals as well.
National Wheelchair Basketball Association: With roots in teams formed by WWII veterans, this organization now spans the globe and sends teams to the Paralympics. Their website has more information about the sport and where teams are located.
Students with Diabetes: This group supports college students with diabetes through information, and by forming a network of peers and campus chapters, connecting students to resources in their communities.
The Phoenix Society: Is the leading national nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering anyone affected by a burn injury.
The EPIC Foundation: Is a non-profit organization that provides support, advocacy, and tools to those affected by chronic illnesses
Center for Chronic Illness: Promotes well-being and decreases isolation for those impacted by chronic illness through support and education.
The Ehlers-Danlos Society: Is dedicated to saving and improving the lives of those affected by the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS), hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD), and related conditions. They host a yearly conference and provide a wide array of resources.
Standing Up to POTS is dedicated to funding research that will help to improve the quality of life for people with postural orthostatic tachycardia (POTS). Their website offers an array of resources and they host a support group on Facebook.

Mental Health

Active Minds: Works to promote positive mental and emotional health for college students while ending the stigma of mental illness; also has fellowships available.
Actively Moving Forward: Through campus-based chapters, AMF supports students dealing with grief after illness or the death of someone they care about.
National Alliance on Mental Illness: NAMI offers support and assistance designed to reduce the stigma of mental illness;they have campus and community chapters and resources for family members.
Silence the Shame: A group working to reduce the stigma of mental illness and poverty, particularly in communities of color. Has a college campus ambassador program that helps students create programs at their colleges and universities.
Self-injury Outreach and Support (SiOS): An international outreach organization providing current information and helpful resources about self-injury to individuals who self-injure, those who have recovered, as well as their caregivers and families, friends, teachers and the health professionals who work with them.

Eating Disorders

Project Heal: National organization with high school and campus chapters, promoting healthy body image and providing grants to people with eating disorders who cannot afford treatment.
The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA): Is the largest nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting individuals and families affected by eating disorders. They merged with the National Association for Males with Eating Disorders (N.A.M.E.D.) in 2019 to further their shared goals of advocacy for diverse populations impacted by eating disorders.
T-FEED—Trans Folx Fighting Eating Disorders: Advocacy and action to make visible, interrupt, and undermine the disproportionately high incidence of eating disorders in trans and gender-diverse individuals through radical community healing and recovery institution reform.
Overeaters Anonymous (OA): A community of people who support each other in order to recover from compulsive eating and food.

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