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Illinois
People's Resource Center, serving residents of DuPage County, Illinois, offers the Computer Literacy Training and Access Program. The program offers low-income people marketable computer skills
and basic knowledge about the technology as well as a computer for their home. Volunteer instructors teach six week sessions that include introduction to computers, basics on Windows and file and folder management, and beginning
Microsoft Word. For more information, call (630) 784-9372 or e-mail fmgoetz@interaccess.com.
Ohio
Special Link serves children and adults with disabilities in Cincinnati, Ohio with training and assessments on computer technology. Training is provided in the homes, schools or places of
employment of the trainee. Individualized training is offered on basic and advanced computer functions. For more information, call (513) 351-8519.
Wisconsin
ProMentor is a career development center located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin offering training in information technologies. They offer diploma programs in a variety of areas including web design, the Microsoft system, networks, the Internet and much
more. Classes are offered week days through evening hours and on Saturdays. For more information, call (414) 257-2939.
United Kingdom
Wigram Aid to Ability for
Critically-disabled Internet Students (W.A.A.C.I.S.) is a charity that offers people with disabilities instruction on computer and Internet functions in their own homes. Each participant must have his / her own computer. Fees are waived if an individual earns £150 or less per week. Thereafter, fees are based upon a sliding scale. For more information, call 020 7730 7766 or e-mail info@waacis.org.uk.
NewLink Project Ltd., a charity based in the East Midlands region of the United Kingdom, offers computer training to people with a disability. Training is offered in one of their ten
training centers or in the homes of people with disabilities. For more information, call +44 (0) 115 942 4761 or e-mail cillal@newlink.org.
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