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Hello and welcome to the Disability Law Lowdown Podcast. I'm your host, Lori Mallory.

I want to tell you about a wonderful new resource for disability information. It’s a website called disability.gov. Disability.gov provides easy access to a wide variety of disability-related information and resources. It's very cool and very easy to use.

It really connects the disability community to information and opportunities. You can look for information by topic by clicking on topics like benefits, civil rights, community life, education, emergency preparedness, employment, health, housing, technology, and transportation.

These are just the broad topics and under each of these are more detailed related topics. Under employment, there are separate links like job & career planning, workplace accommodations & supports, work incentives, youth programs, laws & regulations, and research & statistics.

Under technology, the topics include assistive technology, accessible technology, providers & programs, funding sources, and laws & regulations. You can also look for specific information for your own state.

There is a section on the homepage called “I want to.” It has links to different things you might want to do like find a job, learn about disability laws, learn about transition services for youth, get help starting a small business, find health care, apply for disability benefits, apply for scholarships, find housing, learn about assistive technology, find federal government grants. And of course, there are lots of subtopics.

For example, under “find housing,” there are sections on housing voucher programs, supportive housing, buying a house, renting, making a home accessible, veterans information, and even a section on homelessness.

You can sign up to receive RSS feeds, newsletters, and electronic updates for lots of government websites like the Social Security Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

In addition to finding resources, you can actually suggest a resource to be posted on disability.gov.

There is also a networking part to the site. You can follow disability.gov on Twitter. You can share information directly from the site to your Facebook or My Space pages, or email it directly from the site.

Definitely check out disability.gov and see all that it can do for you. Thank you for watching this podcast.

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The Disability Law Lowdown is sponsored by the Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTAC) a network of ten ADA Centers around the country. The ADA Centers provide training and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act and other disability-related laws.

If you have questions or would like more information, you can call us at 1-800- 949-4232 (V/TTY).

The ADA Centers are supported by a grant from NIDRR.