Educational and information links

Disability related

• Vic Finkelstein was a pioneer of the disability rights movement in the UK, being one of the pioneers of the Social Model of Disability. For a history of how he became active in disability politics, read A Personal Journey Into Disability Politics, written by Finkelstein in 2001. (Found on the Independent Living Institute website)

• Self Direction Community Project - for on-line disability awareness training. Training Module explains the differences between the medical model and the social model of disability.
• Disapedia - a wiki based around disability
• Disabled Living Foundation has a number of fact sheets
• Web Accessibility Initiative - how to make your website accessible to people with disabilities (eg blind people using text-reader software)
• Learn British Sign Language (BSL)
• Onelife - disability advice aimed at teenagers
• NHS Direct Health Encyclopaedia - very medical (obviously), but can be a useful guide to conditions and illnesses
• Youth Information - medical conditions

General reference sites

• Wikipedia - online encyclopaedia edited by ordinary people
• Spartacus Educational - historical education website
• Socialist Review and International Socialism Journal Index - A-Z index by topic, of articles from the SWP's monthly and quarterly publications.

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