Centre for the Arts in Human Development
http://www.total.net/~aladdin/

The Centre for the Arts in Human Development is an innovative program based at Concordia University in Montréal. The Centre utilizes the creative arts therapies and applies them to promote growth and development, at this time in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Centre for the Arts in Human Development began in October 1996 and its program welcomed 21 participants from four vocational centers in Montreal on a part-time basis through April 1997. As a culmination of our first year’s work, we arranged an outreach program, involving an art exhibition of the print works of our participants, an original musical full-scale theatrical production, which was an adaptation of the Wizard of Oz, and an educational research component involving school children’s viewing the play and engaging in an interaction with the actors and a measurement of their attitude change after seeing people with disabilities perform in such a positive capacity. Our mission at the Centre is to provide exposure for university students to our client population as part of a mutual integrated learning experience, benefiting both.

Closing the Gap: Computer Technology in Special Education and Rehabilitation
http://www.closingthegap.com/index.html

Budd and Dolores Hagen, the founders of Closing The Gap, would like to welcome you to this Web Site. It is through their personal experiences raising a deaf child that Closing The Gap was created in 1983. Since that time Budd and Dolores have enjoyed sharing their experiences and insights with parents and professionals around the world. Computers are tools that can provide solutions to many problems facing people with disabilities today. Closing The Gap, Inc. is an organization that focuses on computer technology for people with special needs through its bi-monthly newspaper, annual international conference and extensive web site. The extensive, searchable Resource Directory is a guide to the selection of over 2000 of the latest computer related products for children and adults with special needs.