Partners and Resources:

Advocacy

Colleges and Higher Education
Financial Aid and Scholarship Opportunities For Students who are Deaf, Deafblind, or Hard of Hearing
Scholarship Award (Marge Tierney)
Task Force on Postsecondary Education and Disabilities
LEARNet includes a problem-solving system designed to help you identify useful procedures for helping students with brain injury in school and at home.
Talking Book and Braille Library provides recorded and Braille books to adults and children who, owing to a disability, can't read print, or hold a book, or turn its pages. People qualify for this free, public library service if they have a permanent or temporary visual, physical or learning disability. The Library offers 65,000 book titles and over 60 magazines.

NYC Placement Consortium
New York State Workforce Development System provides information about New York State's effort to implement an Integrated Workforce Development System. Such a system will provide access to Workforce Development information and services across agency lines; Use common definitions and goals and a common data base to share information; Ensure common skill outcomes and customer satisfaction outcomes; Evaluate needs and marshal all available Workforce Development resources in a community to meet needs; Use continuous customer feedback for continuous improvement; Hold all stakeholders accountable to common quality standards through a report card on performance; and Be universal, designed to serve all job seeking and employer customers.

DisabilityInfo.gov is a comprehensive online resource designed to provide people with disabilities quick and easy access to the information they need. With just a few clicks, the site provides access to disability-related information and programs available across the government on numerous subjects, including benefits, civil rights, community life, education, employment, housing, health, technology and transportation.