Disaboom Launches Disability Organizations Directory

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Disaboom, Inc., the leading online resource for people with disabilities, today announced the release of its online Disability Organizations Directory.

“Our goal was to create a comprehensive disability resource for the community where anyone could easily locate the organizations that suit their specific needs.”

Disaboom’s extensive directory identifies over 450 organizations that provide disability services, the bulk of which are nonprofits, government agencies, and education services. The directory ranges from organizations on the local level to the international level.

“All disability organizations, whatever their size and reach, exist for one unifying purpose: To help people with disabilities,” states Kim Dority, Vice President of Content and Strategy. “Our goal was to create a comprehensive disability resource for the community where anyone could easily locate the organizations that suit their specific needs.”

The organizations directory is divided into three main categories: Major Disability Organizations, Disability-Specific Organizations, and Organizations for Living with Disabilities.

Major Disability Organizations includes the all-encompassing national organizations like the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and American Association on Health and Disability (AAHD).

The Disability-Specific Organizations section focuses on organizations (within 22 categories) that are geared toward a specific condition or disability, from autism to fibromyalgia to multiple sclerosis.

The final section, Organizations for Living with Disabilities, includes associations that cover all the ins and outs of everyday life, from organizations that help participants learn to play adaptive sports to those that will make the transition as a college student with disabilities a little easier. This section’s 20 subcategories include assistive technology, ADA, baby boomers, and disabled veterans, among others.

Each entry’s listing contains brief information about the organization, its mission and services, and a link to the organization’s website. The Disaboom research team will continue to add new organizations on a regular basis.

“We hope that this directory, in addition to our Disability Scholarships Directory, will prove to be highly useful to the Disaboom community and to people with disabilities at large,” notes Dority.

Disaboom’s Disability Organizations Directory can be found in the disability resource section of the site.

About Disaboom

Disaboom, Inc. was founded as a dynamic, diverse, and interactive online community dedicated to constantly improving the way people with disabilities or functional limitations live their lives. It also serves as a comprehensive online resource not only for people living with such conditions, but also for their immediate families and friends, caregivers, recreation and rehabilitation providers, and employers. More than 54 million American adults live with disabilities or functional limitations today in the United States alone. Founded and designed by doctors and fellow disaboomers to meet this community's specific needs, www.disaboom.com brings together content and tools, ranging from specialized health information to social networking to daily living resources, in a single interactive site.

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