DISABILITY ISSUES
Vol. 19 No. 4

From the Center              Lawrence Warnock

Information Center’s Website       

Has Been Expanded   [disability.net]

The Board of Directors established a goal recently to re‑design the Information Center’s website. I’m pleased to report that we have accomplished that goal. The website is now fully functional and has been expanded to provide better service to individuals with disabilities, their families, and others working with people with disabilities.

The website now includes a message from the Center’s founder, a history of the Center, the current issue of Disability Issues, the Center’s taxonomy and a volunteer page.

Our future goals include: creating an archive for issues of the newsletter, a complete set of fact sheets and information on each topic within the taxonomy, and an electronic version of the newsletter. We will also be inviting other disability organizations with websites, and disability information sources to link to our site. The Information Center will reciprocate with those sites.

We are hoping that many subscribers to Disability Issues will choose to receive the newsletter electronically. When a subscriber chooses to receive the newsletter electronically (delivered to the subscriber’s e‑mail box), we will realize the cost savings for production, printing and postage. Those savings can then be invested in other activities of the Center.

To switch your snailmail version of Disability Issues to e‑mail, simply go to our website. Click on the Volunteer Page, check off your choice, complete your information and send it in by clicking the “submit” button at the bottom of the form. The form also provides you an opportunity to volunteer, make suggestions, or offer a comment. We will be grateful if you can recommend to us sites you have found to be useful and describe what kinds of assistance they provide. Likewise, if you have found some site to be less that accurate or user‑friendly, please let us know that as well.

The Information Center Website address is http://www.disability.net. We have recently moved our domain name, disability.net, to a different internet service provider. Both addresses will be merged as soon as the transfer occurs. This could take several weeks and may be accomplished by the time you receive this newsletter. If you don’t find it there, however, the site may be accessed at: 209.58.147.12.

As always, your comments are welcomed. You can make your comments at the website.