Agencies of Interest to Students with Particular Disabilities
Chronic Health Impairment
AIDS Action Council & Foundation
1875 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 700
Washington, DC 20009
202-986-1300
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
6931 Arlington Rd.
Bethesda, MD 20814
800-344-4823
Epilepsy Foundation of America
4351 Garden City Drive
Landover, MD 20785–7223
800-332-1000
United Cerebral Palsy Association
1660 L Street NW Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
800-872-5827
202-973-7197 – voice/TTY
Hearing Impairments
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf
3417 Volta Place NW
Washington, DC 20007
866-337-5220
202-337-5221 – TDD
American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association (ADARA)
P.O. Box 480
Myersville, MD 72225
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
10801 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852
800-638-8255 Toll-free & voice/TTY
Hearing Loss Association of America
7910 Woodmont Avenue Suite 1200
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-657-2248 – Voice
301-657-2249 – TDY
National Captioning Institute
1900 Gallows Road Suite 3000
Vienna, VA 22182
703-917-7600 – Voice/TTY
800-950-0958 – TTY
Learning Disabilities
Center on Postsecondary Education
and Disability
University of Connecticut
249 Glenbrook Road, Unit 2064
Storrs, CT 06269-2064
860-486-2785
Council for Learning Disabilities
P.O. Box 4014
Leesburg, VA 20177
571-258-1010
Learning Disability Association of America
4156 Library Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15234-1349
412-341-1515
National Center for Learning Disabilities
381 Park Avenue South Suite 1401
New York, NY 10016
888-575-7373
212-545-7510
Mobility Impairments
Post-Polio Health International
4207 Lindell Avenue #10
St. Louis, MO 63108-2915
314-534-0475
RTA: The LIFT Handicapped Service
2817 Canal St.
New Orleans, LA 70119
504-242-2600
504-827-7433 – Paratransit Service
Brain Injury Association of America
8201 Greensboro Drive Suite 611
McLean, VA 22102
703-761-0750
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
6701 Democracy Boulevard Suite 300-9
Bethesda, MA 20817
800-962-9629
The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation/American Paralysis Association
500 Morris Avenue
Springfield, NJ 07081
Psychological Impairments
The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Boston University
940 Commonwealth Avenue West
Boston, MA 02215
617-353-3549
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
Colonial Place Three
2107 Wilson Boulevard Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22201-3042
Local contact: Bea Piker, 504-896-2345
800-950-6264
703-516-7227 – TDD
National Mental Health Association
2001 North Beauregard Street 12th Floor
Alexandria, VA 22311
800-969-6642
703-684-7722
800-433-5959 – TTY
National Mental Health Consumer's
Self-Help Clearinghouse
1211 Chestnut Street Suite 1207
Philadelphia, PA 19107
800-553-4539
215-751-1810
Visual Impairment
American Council for the Blind
1155 15th Street NW Suite 1004
Washington, DC 20005
800-424-8666
202-467-5081
American Foundation for the Blind
11 Penn Plaza Suite 300
New York, NY 10001
800-232-5463
212-502-7600
American Printing House for the Blind
1839 Frankfort Avenue
P.O. Box 6085
Louisville, KY 40206-0085
502-895-2405
Council of Citizens with Low Vision International
5707 Brockton Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46220-5481
800-733-2258