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• Mandatory Passive Restraint Systems in Automobiles: Issues and Evidence (Technology and Handicapped People background paper #1; OTA-BP-H-15; Washington: GPO, 1982), by Kenneth E. Warner
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All (2000), by Barbara T. Mates (HTML at independentliving.org)

• Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All (2000), by Barbara T. Mates (HTML at independentliving.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (1964-2017) (full serial archives)

• Electronic Travel Aids: New Directions for Research, by National Research Council Committee on Vision (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Assistive Devices for Severe Speech Impairments (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Le Mécanisme de la Parole, Suivi de la Description d'une Machine Parlante (in French; Vienna: B. Baueur and J. V. Degen, 1791), by Wolfgang von Kempelen
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Mechanismus der Menschlichen Sprache Nebst der Beschreibung Seiner Sprechenden Maschine (in German; Vienna: J. B. Degen, 1791), by Wolfgang von Kempelen (PDF at OHSU; 66 MB)

• Disability in America: Toward a National Agenda for Prevention (1991), ed. by Andrew M. Pope and Alvin R. Tarlov (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The American Negro as a Dependent, Defective and Delinquent (c1914), by Charles H. McCord (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Shadow and Sunshine, by Eliza Suggs
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com

• Black Disability Politics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2022), by Samantha Dawn Schalk (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Duke University Press)

• Children and Youth at the Midcentury: Fact-Finding Report, Additional Digest Material (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Children and Youth at the Midcentury: Fact-Finding Report, Additional Digest Material (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Raising the Educational Achievement of Secondary School Students: An Idea Book, by United States Department of Education (HTML with commentary at ed.gov)

• Implementing Schoolwide Projects: An Idea Book, by Ellen M. Pechman and Leila Fiester (HTML at ed.gov)

• Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General (2001), by United States Public Health Service (HTML at surgeongeneral.gov)

• Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions, by Lynn A. Karoly, Peter W. Greenwood, Susan S. Everingham, Jill Houbeé, M. Rebecca Kilburn, C. Peter Rydell, Matthew Sanders, and James Chiesa (PDF files at rand.org)

• Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions, by Lynn A. Karoly, Peter W. Greenwood, Susan S. Everingham, Jill Houbeé, M. Rebecca Kilburn, C. Peter Rydell, Matthew Sanders, and James Chiesa (PDF files at rand.org)

• Child Care Work with Emotionally Disturbed Children (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981), by Genevieve W. Foster, Karen VanderVen, Eleanore R. Kroner, Nancy Trevorrow Carbonara, and George M. Cohen (page images at Pitt)
• Children's Mental Health: Problems and Services (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Black Disability Politics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2022), by Samantha Dawn Schalk (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Duke University Press)

• Legislative Recommendations of Blinded Veterans Association, 1977: Hearing Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1977), by United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• DAV Magazine (1960-present), by Disabled American Veterans and DAV Auxiliary (full serial archives)
• The B. V. A. Bulletin, by Blinded Veterans Association (partial serial archives)

• Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All (2000), by Barbara T. Mates (HTML at independentliving.org)

• Find Your Library (current online successor of a guide formerly known as Library Resources Directory), by Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (HTML at loc.gov)

• Deportation by Default: Mental Disability, Unfair Hearings, and Indefinite Detention in the US Immigration System (c2010), by Sarah Mehta (HTML at hrw.org)

• The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and Law (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Robert L. Hayman (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment and the Americans With Disabilities Act (OTA-BP-BBS-124; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitutional Rights of the Mentally Ill: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session (2 parts; Washington: GPO, 1961), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • 2 volumes in 1: multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• The Feeble Minded in New York: A Report Prepared for the Public Education Association of New York (New York: State Charities Aid Association, 1911), by Anne Moore (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and Law (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Robert L. Hayman (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Everyday Courage: The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Niobe Way (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Everyday Courage: The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Niobe Way (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Losing Generations: Adolescents in High-Risk Settings (1993), by National Research Council Panel on High-Risk Youth (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Education for Tomorrow's Jobs (1983), ed. by Susan W. Sherman (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Education for Tomorrow's Jobs (1983), ed. by Susan W. Sherman (page images with commentary at NAP)

• ACB Braille Forum (partial serial archives)

• Freedom (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c2006), ed. by Marc Maurer (illustrated HTML at nfb.org)
• Celebrate (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c2005), ed. by Marc Maurer (illustrated HTML at nfb.org)
• Imagine (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c2004), ed. by Marc Maurer (illustrated HTML at nfb.org)
• The Lessons of the Earth (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c2004), ed. by Marc Maurer (illustrated HTML at nfb.org)
• To Reach for the Stars (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c2003), ed. by Marc Maurer (illustrated HTML at nfb.org)
• Gray Pancakes and Gold Horses (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1998), ed. by Kenneth Jernigan (HTML at nfb.org)
• To Touch the Untouchable Dream (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1998), ed. by Kenneth Jernigan (HTML at nfb.org)
• Like Cats and Dogs (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1997), ed. by Kenneth Jernigan (HTML at nfb.org)
• Wall-to-Wall Thanksgiving (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1997), ed. by Kenneth Jernigan (HTML at nfb.org)
• Beginnings and Blueprints (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1996), ed. by Kenneth Jernigan (HTML at nfb.org)
• Old Dogs and New Tricks (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1996), ed. by Kenneth Jernigan (HTML at nfb.org)
• Toothpaste and Railroad Tracks (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1995), ed. by Kenneth Jernigan (HTML at nfb.org)
• Standing on One Foot (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1994), ed. by Kenneth Jernigan (HTML at nfb.org)
• Making Hay (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1993), ed. by Kenneth Jernigan (HTML at nfb.org)
• The Freedom Bell (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1992), ed. by Kenneth Jernigan (HTML at nfb.org)
• Oh, Wow! (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c2000), ed. by Marc Maurer (HTML at nfb.org)
• Kenneth Jernigan: The Master, the Mission, the Movement (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1999), by Kenneth Jernigan (HTML and audio at nfb.org)
• Remember to Feed the Kittens (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1999), ed. by Marc Maurer (HTML at nfb.org)
• Legislative Recommendations of Blinded Veterans Association, 1977: Hearing Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1977), by United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.