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The Complete Resource Guide for People with Disabilities, 2025

Introduction

This 33rd edition of the award-winning Complete Resource Guide for People with Disabilities is invaluable for all those living with a disability, their personal and professional community, and all those committed to empowering these individuals. It offers thousands of ways for people with disabilities to succeed at work, in school, and in their community.

Careful research and compilation of the best data available maintains the reputation of The Complete Resource Guide for People with Disabilities among educators, librarians and the disability community. This resource is a repeat recipient of the National Mature Media Award and the National Health Information Award.

This comprehensive resource opens with the following valuable front matter:

  • An in-depth report on the impact of prenatal interventions, such as gene editing, on people with disabilities

  • A detailed release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on labor force characteristics involving persons with a disability, using 2023 data

  • User Guide and Key

  • Glossary of Disability-Related Terms

Coverage continues with subject-specific listing sections (i.e. Arts, Assistive Devices, Camps, Vocational Programs), Rehabilitation Facilities, and disability-specific sections (i.e. Aging, Cognitive, Mobility, Speech). Each disability section includes a range of resources from Associations to Support Groups. The comprehensive Table of Contents guides you through the 33 chapters and more than 100 subchapters contained in this rich resource.

Following the listing chapters is a 2024 Annual Disability Statistics Compendium: a robust section of easy-to-read tables featuring the latest available data. The first part of the compendium features numbers of disabled individuals by both state and disability—hearing, vision, cognitive, ambulatory, and self-care and independent-living disabilities—and the second part features individuals who are employed, broken down by the categories listed above.

Sure to save hours of Internet research time, The Complete Resource Guide for People with Disabilities provides comprehensive, critical and immediate information in one source that can be accessed quickly and easily. This edition provides 9,013 descriptive listings, 22,836 key contacts, 6,940 fax numbers, 5,632 email addresses, and 8,027 web sites.

Indexes

Three indexes provide quick, easy access to the data.

  • Subject Index alphabetically organizes directory listings by relevant topics, i.e. autism, language disorders.

  • Geographic Index organizes listings alphabetically by state.

  • Entry & Publisher Index lists all directory listings alphabetically.

This print volume includes companion eBook access on the Grey House/Salem Press online platform, https://online.salempress.com. The Complete Resource Guide for People with Disabilities eBook includes all of the updated information that you see in the print volume in full text online. Whether you use The Complete Resource Guide for People with Disabilities in print or online, locating resources to enrich the lives of individuals with disabilities and their caregivers has never been faster or easier—it’s all just a page-turn or a click away.

Praise for previous editions:

“This comprehensive directory is an excellent starting point…a very useful resource for public, hospital, and consumer-health libraries as well as social-service agencies and nonprofits serving the disabled.”

—Booklist

“The strength of this source is in the information referral portion for each entry: the wide range of resources and organizations presented that can assist with additional information and support.”

—ARBA

“…thousands of resources…covering a diverse range of services…separate section for specific disabilities…from aging to mobility and from the blind and deaf to speech and language disorders. Libraries…will want to consider…”

—Against the Grain

We welcome your comments, and look forward to another year of serving the disability community.

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