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# Resources

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March 13, 2025

### Caltech Resources

- [**The** **Undergraduate Deans' Office**](https://www.deans.caltech.edu/) and [**The Graduate Studies Office**](https://gradoffice.caltech.edu/) provide a wide range of support for students – they are available to discuss academic concerns, personal well-being, community issues, plans after Caltech, and other topics.
- [**Occupational Therapy Services**](http://wellness.caltech.edu/ot) can help students build healthy habits and routines, and learn strategies to improve time management, productivity, sleep, organization, and more.
- [**Counseling Services**](http://wellness.caltech.edu/counseling) provides free mental health supports for students. In addition to therapy appointments, they have group programs, workshops, and host a weekly meditation session.
- [**The Hixon Writing Center**](http://www.writing.caltech.edu/) offers one-on-one coaching and other resources for students working on papers and other writing projects.
- [**Neurodiversity @ Caltech**](https://neurodiversity.caltech.edu/)
- [Emergency Preparedness Program Communication Page](http://www.writing.caltech.edu/) hosts all campus emergency notification information.

[Everbridge 360 App Download Guide](https://emergencypreparedness.caltech.edu/documents/28345/Caltech_Everbridge_360_App_Instructions_and_Disclosures_05302024.pdf)

### Local/Community Resources

- [**Access**](https://accessla.org/riding_access/overview.html) - LA County's paratransit service
- [**Braille Institute**](https://brailleinstitute.org/) provides services for people with visual impairments
- [**Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness (GLAD)**](https://gladinc.org/)
- [**Let's Talk LD**](https://www.letstalkld.org/) offers vocational and other resources to the neurodiversity community
- [**Los Angeles Neurodiversity (LAND) Meetup group**](https://www.meetup.com/laneurodiversity/)
- [**Southern California Resource Center for Independent Living**](https://www.scrs-ilc.org/) - serves residents of the Pasadena area and parts of the San Gabriel Valley
- [**Zig Zag Pride**](https://www.meetup.com/zig-zag-pride/) - affinity space for members of the disabled and neurodiverse LGBTQ+ communities

### Information about Disability and Neurodiversity

#### Websites

- [**The A11Y Project (digital accessibility)**](https://www.a11yproject.com/)
- [**Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)**](https://www.ada.gov/)
- [**American Association of People With Disabilities - Multimedia History of Disability Rights and the ADA**](https://artsandculture.google.com/story/GgXx4PBo_Ty9Jg)
- [**Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)**](https://autisticadvocacy.org/)
- [**Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Disability and Health**](https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/infographic-disability-impacts-all.html)
- [**Disability Etiquette - a guide from the United Spinal Association**](https://www.unitedspinal.org/pdf/DisabilityEtiquette.pdf)
- [**Disability History Museum**](https://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/index.html)
- [**Disability Visibility Project**](https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/)
- [**DO-IT Center at University of Washington: Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology**](https://www.washington.edu/doit/)
- [**National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)**](https://nami.org/Home)
- [**Job Accommodation Network (JAN)**](https://askjan.org/index.cfm)
- [**Lime Connect**](https://www.limeconnect.com/#who-we-are) - disability employment
- [**Pacific ADA Center**](https://www.adapacific.org)
- [**Rooted in Rights**](https://rootedinrights.org/#doc-content)
- [**Stanford Neurodiversity Summit**](https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity/SNS2022.html)
- [**United Nations - Disability**](https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/)
- [**US Department of Education - Characteristics and Outcomes of Undergraduates with Disabilities**](https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018432.pdf)

#### Books

- [**Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Edited by Alice Wong)**](https://pasadena.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:127744/one?qu=disability+visibility&te=ILS)
- [**Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activisty (Heumann, Judith)**](https://pasadena.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=%22being+heumann%22&te=ILS)
- [**Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally (Ladau, Emily)**](https://lacountylibrary.overdrive.com/media/5761863?utm_campaign=searchfeed&utm_source=google)
- [**Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi)**](https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Care-Work)

#### Podcasts

- [**Disability Visibility Podcast**](https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/podcast-2/)
- [**The Accessible Stall with Kyle and Emily**](https://www.theaccessiblestall.com/)
- [**Barrier-Free Futures**](https://barrierfreefutures.libsyn.com/)
- [**Access All - BBC**](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r6yqw/episodes/downloads)
- [**Included: The Disability Equity Podcast**](https://included.libsyn.com/)