Friends with Disabilities Chat - Disabled World

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woman in wheelchair using computer This is the Disabled World chat room for persons with disabilities and the elderly who are seeking the companionship and support of others. Meet new friends with disabilities, health conditions, and pain you can relate to.

This room is our general disability chat room, or lobby, for those wishing to meet others, make new friends, and enjoy longer discussions with one another in a more relaxed chat room called the "birdhouse".

The information and any advice published or made available through the Disabled World web site including our chat rooms is not intended to replace the services of a physician, nor does it constitute a doctor-patient relationship. It is a condition of entry to our chat rooms that you first read our Chat Rules.

Explanations and links to abbreviations and medical conditions you may see used in the chat room

ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act
AT - Assistive Technology
CDC - Centers for Disease Control
CP - Cerebral Palsy
LD - Learning Disability
MD - Muscular Dystrophy
MS - Multiple Sclerosis
MSCIS - Model Spinal Cord Injury System
NCD - National Council on Disability
NCI - National Cancer Institute

NEI - National Eye Institute
NF - Neurofibromatosis
NHIC - National Health Information Center
NIA - National Institute on Aging
OT - Occupational Therapy
PCA - Personal Care Assistant
PT - Physical therapy
QOL - Quality of Life
SCD - Spinal Cord Degeneration
SCI - Spinal Cord Injury
SB - Spina Bifida

SSA - Social Security Administration
SSDI - Social Security Disability Insurance
SSI - Supplemental Security Income
TBI - Traumatic Brain Injury
UCPA - United Cerebral Palsy of America
VI - Visually Impaired
VR - Vocational Rehabilitation
WC or W/C - Wheelchair
WHO - World Health Organization
WID - World Institute on Disability

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