Useful Links

Disability Act Complaints Procedure

• Disability Act Complaints Procedure

Disability and Education Organisations (Ireland and UK):

• AHEAD - This Irish voluntary organisation provides an excellent start for all students with disabilities on studying at Third level. It has many useful links, publications and general information.
• Skill - The British equivalent to Ahead provides useful information that is relevant to students studying in Ireland or considering study in Britain.
• Able 4 College - This website provides information to guidance counsellors, teachers, parents and students with disabilities themselves, on career planning and third level supports, as well as information on different types of disability, disability etiquette and various teaching and learning techniques.
• SCIPS - This project aimed to support academic staff to improve access to the curriculum for disabled students and this database aims to do just that. For the purposes of this project, ten subjects were chosen.

Dyslexia

• Dyslexia Association of Ireland
• British Dyslexic Association
•  www.dyslexia-college.com - resource for dyslexic students at college
•  www.dyslexia-adults.com - resource for dyslexic adults

Mental Health

•     Student Mental Health - Information on Mental Health Disabilities

Visual Impairment

• The National Council for the Blind of Ireland
• Royal National Institute of the Blind

W3C

•  World Wide Web Consortium's(W3C) - Commitment to lead the web to its full potential includes promoting a high degree of accessibility for disabled

Assistive Technology

• www.microsoft.com/enable - Microsoft's page dedicated to IT accessibility 
• www.assistireland.ie

Deaf

• www.nadi.ie - National Association for the Deaf Ireland

    Sport

• www.iwasport.com - Irish Wheelchair Association
• www.ncbi.ie - Irish Blind Sport
• www.enableireland.ie - providing training and competition for athletes with cerebral palsy
• www.pcireland.ie - Irish Paralympic News
• www.limerickcitysports.ie - Limerick City Sports Partnership