Accessible Links
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
Advocacy Resource Centre for the Handicapped (ARCH) (A Legal Resource for People with Disabilities)
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Assistive Device Program (ADP)
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Canada Pension Plan-Disability (CPP-D)
Canadian Abilities Foundation (CAF)
Canadian Disability Resources (CDF)
Canadian Hearing Society (CHS)
Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA)
Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA)
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Centre for Independent Living in Toronto (CILT)
Citizens with Disabilities-Ontario (CWD-O)
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO)
Communication Disabilities Access Canada (CDAC)
Community Care Access Centre (CCAC)
Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)
Disabled Persons International (DPI)
DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN)
Employment Insurance Benefits (EIB)
Employment Standards Act (ESA)
Etho-Racial People with Disabilities Coalition Ontario (ERDCO)
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)
Independent Living Canada (IL Canada)
Independent Living Centre (ILC)
Independent Living Resource Centre (ILRC – same as ILC)
Independent Living Service Providers (ILSP)
Information and Referral
Internet Navigation for Individuals with Low Vision or Blindness
Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario
Local Health Integration Network (LHIN)
Long-Term Centre (LTC)
Long-Term Disability Insurance (LTD)
Mandatory Employment Related Costs (MERC’s)
Ministry of Community and Social Services
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC)
Multiple Sclerosis Society (MS)
Muscular Dystrophy Canada (MD)
National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS)
Office of Disability Issues (in Social Development Canada) (ODI)
Ontario Association for Amputee Care (OAAC)
Ontario Association of the Deaf (OAD)
Ontario Brain Injury Association (OBIA)
Ontario Brain Institute (OBI)
Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy (OFCP)
Ontario Hospital Association (OHA)
Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC)
Ontario Network of Independent Living Centres (ONILC)
Paraplegia / Quadriplegia / Tetraplegia
Parenting with a Disability Network (PDN)
Parkinson Canada Support Group – South Muskoka
Parkinson Canada – Central and Northern Ontario
Parkinson’s Disease (PD)
Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)
Provincial Liaison Committee for Persons with Physical Disabilities (PLCPPD)
Rheumatoid Arthritis Support Network
Self-Manager (SM)
Self-Manager’s Report (SMR)
Self-Manager’s Report Review (SMRR)
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD’s)
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
Spinal Cord Injury Ontario (SCIO)
Social Development Canada (SDC)
Social Development Partnership Program (from the Office of Disability Issues) (SDPP)
Social Development Partnership Program-Disability (SDDP-D)
Support Service Living Unit (SSLU)
Supportive Housing Unit (SHU)
Teletypewriter/Telephone Device for the Deaf (TTY/TDD)
The International Organization on Arts and Disability (VSA) (formally Very Special Arts)
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
United Way North East Ontario (UWNEO)
United Way Simcoe Muskoka (UWSM)