Additional/health Needs research
- Alzheimer Society of Ireland - comprehensive information on dementia and Alzheimer's disease
- Alzheimer's Society - Northern Ireland. Lots of information from the UK organisation and local contact points
- AWARE - organisation that aims to assist those affected by depression
- A-Z to Deafblindness - comprehensive UK-based site
- Brainwave - the Irish Epilepsy Association
- Camphill Ireland - a series of Communities across the world formed of groups of people, some with special needs or disability, some more able, who live, work and learn together, in an atmosphere of mutual respect
- Camphill UK & Ireland - more general information on Camphill.
- Cerebral Palsy Ireland
- Central Remedial Clinic
- Centre for the Study of Autism - based in Oregon, USA. Comprehensive resource bank
- Cornucopia of Disability Information [CODI] - extensive US-based resource site
- Disabled People of Clare - comprehensive website dealing with disability issues.
- Down Syndrome Information Network - UK based resources
- Dyslexia Association of Ireland
- Dyspraxia Association
- Enable Ireland - organisation for those with physical disabilities. Site has a useful searchable 'information bank' as well as info about the organisation
- European Year of Disabled People 2003 - what happened in Ireland
- Forum of People with Disabilities - organisation run solely by people with disabilities, for people with disabilities
- Friedreich's Ataxia Society of Ireland - support group
- Headway Ireland - organisation for those with acquired brain injury
- Inclusion Europe - comprehensive EU site for those with intellectual disabilities. Includes 'easy-to-read' information in a wide range of European languages
- Irish Deaf.com - regularly maintained site with extensive information of interest to the deaf
- Irish Deaf Society - extensive and useful site dealing with deaf issues
- Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (not updated since about 1998)
- Irish Society for Autism
- Irish Society for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease
- Irish Wheelchair Association - comprehensive and easy-to-use site
- Joint Universities Deaf Education Centre Queens University, Belfast. Useful information on educational issues related to deaf students
- Kildare Network of People with Disabilities
- Mental Health Ireland - supporting positive mental health
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society
- Muscular Dystrophy Ireland
- National Council for the Blind of Ireland
- National Disability Authority (NDA) - independent agency for disability issues established by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- National Federation of Voluntary Bodies Providing Services to People with Intellectual Disability - national umbrella organisation for voluntary/non-statutory agencies who provide direct services to people with intellectual disability in Ireland
- Neuro Development Therapy Ireland - promotes the use in Ireland of Neuro-Developmental Therapy in the treatment of children with specific learning difficulties
- Peter Bradley Foundation - group that aims to meet the needs of those with Acquired Brain Injury in Ireland
- Post-polio support group
- http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/comment/30196 Early onset Parkinsons disease U.K.
- http://www.parkinsons.ie/userfiles/file/LeafletG1_1.pdf Parkinsons Irish research
- Red Cross
- Rehab - voluntary organization that provides vocational education, training and business support for people with disabilities and special needs
- Report of the Inspector of Mental Hospitals [2002] PDF
- Schizophrenia Ireland - the Lucia Foundation - national organization for those with schizophrenia and their caring relatives
- Special Olympics - for people with learning disabilities. Ireland hosted the World Summer Games in 2003
- St. John of God Services - for people with an intellectual disabilit