eric@tfs.COM (Eric Smith) (06/20/91)
Index Number: 16251 [Note from Bill McGarry: See the next article.] What is "The Handicap News BBS"? Is it for handicapped persons or for professionals who work with handicapped persons? Are there a lot of BBS's like that throughout the country? Is there a national listing of them somewhere? Just curious. Thanks.
wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com (Bill McGarry) (06/20/91)
Index Number: 16252 Eric Smith (eric@tfs.COM) writes: > What is "The Handicap News BBS"? Is it for handicapped persons or > for professionals who work with handicapped persons? Are there a > lot of BBS's like that throughout the country? Is there a national > listing of them somewhere? The Handicap News BBS is a computer bulletin board that I run here in Connecticut. It is open to everyone, whether you are handicapped or not. I carry about 20 different conferences relating to the handicapped, such as ABLED, BlinkTalk, SilentTalk, Chronic Pain, Spinal Injury, Advocacy, Rare Disorders, Cerebral Palsy, MS, Care Givers, Amputees, Abled Athlete, etc, etc. This BBS is also where the gatewaying of articles from Fidonet to the Usenet newsgroup, misc.handicap, and the Bitnet mailing list, the Handicap Digest, is done. The BBS also has a lot of programs and text files for the handicapped - one-finger programs, sign language tutors, speech synthesizer drivers, text enlargers, copies of laws such as ADA and 508, etc. I have had the IBM disability resource database avaiable for on-line searching but have run out of disk room so until I can get a larger drive donated, this has been temporarily removed. I maintain a list of BBS's that have conferences and/or programs for the handicapped. The most current version of this list is from December of 1990 but I am working on an updated list which should be finished within the next week. The latest version has nearly 700 BBS's throughout the world. Most of the BBS's listed are listed merely because they carry one or more of the Fidonet conferences listed above but there are about 70 BBS's that contain more information for the handicapped. Feel free to call the Handicap News BBS anytime. The phone number is 1-203-337-1607 (300/1200/2400 baud). First time callers have full privileges and there are no charges. Bill McGarry (203) 337-1518 UUCP: {oliveb, philabs, decvax, yale}!bunker!wtm INTERNET: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com BITNET: l-hcap@ndsuvm1.bitnet fidonet: The Handicap News BBS (141/420) 1-203-337-1607 (300/1200/2400 baud, 24 hours) Compuserve: 73170,1064