Disability Awareness Month: Websites

Aging & Long Term Care of Eastern Washington (ALTCEW) works with and through community organizations to administer a wide range of services for adults 60 and over and people with disabilities.

A volunteer-based, nonprofit agency, The Arc of Spokane works to ensure that people with developmental disabilities in our community, and the people who care for them, enjoy the highest quality of life possible.

The Bambino Buddy-Ball Division allows our challenged or special needs athletes to develop confidence and positive self-esteem.

The Spokane County Community Services, Housing, and Community Development Department (CSHCD) is dedicated to strengthening our communities and helping our region’s most vulnerable residents achieve and maintain healthier and more independent lives in a safe environment.

For over 30 years the East Central Community Center has been dedicated to strengthening the community, as well as being a gathering place for persons of all ages, ethnicities, and social classes.

Free Handyman helps disabled veterans with: Accessibility—installing wheelchair ramps, grab bars, safety rails, shower extensions. Painting – exteriors, interiors, single rooms, and patch jobs….and more

HireAbility Spokane provides employment solutions to Spokane County businesses through a diverse workforce of individuals with developmental disabilities.

Our purpose is to nurture the full potential of families and their children, from birth to three, with disabilities.

Mission is to make known the gifts of people with intellectual disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships. Foster an environment in community that responds to the changing needs of our members, while being faithful to the core values of our founding story. Engage in our diverse cultures, working together toward a more human society.

Greater Spokane County Meals on Wheels provides home delivered meals to homebound elders and persons with disabilities and meals at 13 senior dining locations in Spokane County.

Merry Glen serves families with a Loved One who has a disability requiring residential services.

NWSDA is a non-profit dedicated to Service Dog teams, Service Dogs in Training, businesses and the community. NWSDA helps educate, establish and maintain partnerships to share information about the rights and needs of Service Dog teams.

The mission of SNAP is to increase the human potential of our community by providing opportunities for people in need. The largest private human-services agency in Spokane County, SNAP’s staff focus on serving the whole family with a commitment to providing a wide-range of accessible services for those living in poverty.

Programming in sports, health, education and community building, Special Olympics is changing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. Special Olympics is able to remove barriers and stigmas that people with intellectual disabilities face, and to share with the community the gifts and talents they possess.

Helping individuals with disabilities to participate fully in their communities and become employed is our purpose and passion.

Washington 2-1-1 provides the most current and comprehensive database of community resources in the State of Washington. By simply dialing the number 2-1-1 or searching the website, people can connect to help when they need it regardless of who provides the services or where the services are located.

Washington State Department of Services for the Blind (DSB) provides training, counselling, and support to help Washington residents of all ages, who are blind or visually impaired, pursue employment, education, and independent living.

We focus exclusively on meeting the needs of kids, adults, and families impacted by ADHD and reading difficulties.

A documentary on isolation, art, and transformation after brain injury.

The place where the real disability talk happens. Interviews, life hacks and things you don't say out loud. With Simon Minty, Kate Monaghan and the Ouch team.

Keith Nolan always wanted to join the United States military. The challenge: He is Deaf, which is an automatic disqualification according to military rules. In this talk, he describes his fight to fight for his country. (In American Sign Language, with real-time translation.)

When Sue Austin got a power wheelchair, she felt a tremendous sense of freedom -- yet others looked at her as though she had lost something. In her art, she conveys the spirit of wonder she feels wheeling through the world. Includes thrilling footage of an underwater wheelchair that lets her explore ocean beds, drifting through schools of fish, floating free in 360 degrees.

In art school, Phil Hansen developed an unruly tremor in his hand that kept him from creating the pointillist drawings he loved. Hansen was devastated, floating without a sense of purpose. Until a neurologist made a simple suggestion: embrace this limitation ... and transcend it.

Stella Young is a comedian and journalist who happens to go about her day in a wheelchair — a fact that doesn't, she'd like to make clear, automatically turn her into a noble inspiration to all humanity. In this very funny talk, Young breaks down society's habit of turning disabled people into "inspiration porn."

National Multiple Sclerosis Society shares powerful stories of people living with MS.