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Metropolitan Area Resources, D.C., MD, VA
Organizations and Information
Repairs and Rentals of Equipment
Vehicle Rentals

Information and Resources
Mobility Devices, Durable and Disposable Medical Equipment
Ramps, Lifts and Vehicle Modification
Adaptive Technological Equipment
Universal Design
Disability Etiquette
Workplace Accommodations and Employment Issues
Legal and Advocacy Issues
Travel, Sports, Recreation
Web Accessibility Resources
Spinal Cord Injuries
Traumatic Brain Injury
Rehabilitation Information

Metropolitan Area Resources, D.C., MD, VA

Organizations and Information

Repairs and Rentals of Equipment in D.C., MD, VA

  • Area Access (location, Manassas, VA): This company sells and rents scooters and wheelchairs. They sell various staircase and outdoor lifts and modify vehicles with ramps and lifts.
  • Mobility Solutions (location, Silver Spring, MD): This company offers in home demonstrations, mobility products, and rents ramps, manual wheelchairs, hospital beds, scooters, and power wheelchairs.
  • Numotion has a location in Baltimore, MD. This company offers mobility devices, cushions, adaptive seating, lifts, and repair services.
  • Rehab Equipment Professionals (location, Alexandria, VA): This company supplies and repairs wheelchairs. They specialize in pediatric wheelchairs and custom mobility devices for all ages.
  • ScootAround Wheelchair and Scooter Rentals (location, Washington, D.C.): This company rents scooters in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
  • Zask Medical (location, Alexandria, VA): This company provides rentals, repairs and sales for all types of wheelchairs both motorized and manual in the D.C. metro area.

Vehicle Rentals

  • MobilityWorks (location, DC, MD, VA): This company specializes in customizing vehicles for accessibility including: cars, vans, trailers, and RVs.
  • Wheelchair Getaways (location, DC, MD, VA): This company rents accessible vehicles throughout the country.

Information and Resources

Mobility Devices, Durable and Disposable Medical Equipment

  • Activeforever (delivery, web-based): This company offers a variety of durable and disposable medical aids.
  • Allegro Medical Supplies (location, web-based): This company carries a large variety of disposable and other medical supplies.
  • Colours (location, web-based): This company manufactures wheelchairs for active users.
  • Invacare (location, web-based): This company manufactures wheelchairs and provides other mobility products such as lifts, walkers, beds, and respiratory and sleep aids.
  • MagicWheels(location, web-based): This company makes a wheelchair with gears.
  • Mobility Solutions (location, Silver Spring, MD): This company offers in home demonstrations, mobility products, and rents ramps, manual wheelchairs, hospital beds, scooters, and power wheelchairs.
  • Numotion This company offers mobility devices, cushions, adaptive seating, lifts, and repair services.
  • Permobil (location, Lebanon, TN): This company manufactures power wheelchairs and customizes upon requests.
  • Pride Mobility Products (location, Exeter, PA): This company manufactures and sells power wheelchairs, scooters, and lift chairs.
  • Quickie Wheelchairs (delivery, web-based): This company manufactures and sells many types of wheelchairs, portable ramps, bath and toilet aids.
  • Rehab Equipment Professionals (location, Alexandria, VA): This company supplies and repairs wheelchairs. They specialize in pediatric wheelchairs and custom mobility devices for all ages.
  • Rifton (delivery, web-based): This company manufacturers wheelchairs and tools designed specifically for children with disabilities.
  • Sunrise Medical (delivery, web-based): This company offers wheelchairs, durable and disposal medical equipment, lifts, and aids for daily living.
  • Zask Medical (location, Alexandria, VA): This company provides rentals, repairs and sales for all types of wheelchairs both motorized and manual in the D.C. metro area.

Ramps, Lifts and Vehicle Modification

  • Area Access (location, Manassas, VA): This company sells and rents scooters and wheelchairs. They sell various staircase and outdoor lifts, and modify vehicles with ramps and lifts.
  • BEDCO Mobility (location, College Park, MD): This company offers home stair lifts, ramps, scooters, van lifts, hand controls, and vertical lifts.
  • Bruno Independent Living Aids, Inc. (location, web-based): This company manufactures and sells stair lifts, vertical platform lifts, vehicle lifts, and Turning Automotive Seating.
  • Creative Controls (CCI)(location, Troy, MI): This company provides driving and vehicle modification supplies, hand controls and lifts for vehicles.
  • Eastern Mobility (location, Frederick, MD): This company provides custom vehicle modifications.
  • Express Ramps (location, web-based): This company provides portable and foldable ramps.
  • Harmar Mobility (location, Sarasota, FL): This company offers home and vehicle ramps.
  • MobilityWorks This company specializes in customizing vehicles for accessibility including: cars, vans, trailers, and RVs.
  • Oneness Mobility Services (location, Forestville, MD): This company provides customized vehicle modifications.
  • Ricon (location, Panorama City, CA): This company manufactures vehicle ramps and lifts.
  • Savaria This company makes wheelchair accessible minivans.
  • Vantage Mobility International (location, Phoneix, AZ): This company customizes accessible vehicles.

Adaptive Technological Equipment

Universal Design

  • Access Board These are the complete guidelines for the Federal Agency that regulates accessible design.
  • IDEA This is a Universal Design research center at Buffalo University. They are dedicated to improving the design of environments.

Disability Etiquette

Workplace Accommodations and Employment Issues

  • ACCESS Board These are U.S. guidelines and requirements for building, transportation and communication.
  • Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy.
  • Disability Employment 101 This is published by the U.S. Department of Education.
  • Emergency Preparedness Helpful information on emergency preparedness for people with disabilities.
  • Employer Assistance and Recruiting Network (EARN)
  • Employment Guide This is a guide for people with disabilities seeking employment published by the U.S. Department of Justice.
  • Equal Opportunity Publications (EOP) Diversity recruitment publications.
  • HIRE This organization's mission is to give all people who want a chance to succeed, the opportunity to succeed.
  • IBM This site describes IBM's model vision about disability, accessibility and employment.
  • Institute for Community Inclusion This organization offers training and employment services to promote inclusion of people with disabilities in school, work, and community activities.
  • Job Accommodation Network (JAN) This agency is supported by the Office of Disability Employment Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor.
  • National Council on Disability An independent federal agency committed to disability policy leadership.
  • ODEP U.S. Department of Labor employment policy.
  • Open Doors Organization This company teaches businesses how to succeed in the disability market, while simultaneously empowering the disability community.
  • Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act General Service Administration website
    "No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States, as defined in section 7(20), shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance or under any program or activity conducted by any Executive agency or by the United States Postal Service."
  • Section 508 Regulations General Service Administration website
    This is a link to Federal requirements governing electronic information. This act requires Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. The law applies to all Federal agencies when they develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology. Under Section 508 (29 U.S.C. 794d), agencies must give disabled employees and members of the public, access to information that is comparable to the access available to others.
  • Social Security Administration
  • Solutions Marketing Group This company assists with marketing to people  with disabilities and understanding employees with disabilities.
  • TransCen This organization is dedicated to improving educational and employment outcomes for people with disabilities.
  • VCU Rehabilitation Research and Training Center Virginia Commonwealth University RRTC provides resources for professionals, individuals with disabilities, and their representatives.

Legal and Advocacy Issues

Travel, Sports, Recreation

Web Accessibility Resources

  • Nielson Norman Group This website describes how to make the Internet easy to use for users with disabilities.
  • Wave This is a tool that allows you to validate your web pages to test if they are in compliance with accessibility guidelines.
  • Web Accessibility Initiatives, WAI (part of w3c Standards) This link provides rules and regulations for creating web pages that are accessible to audiences with disabilities.
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (W3C) These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities and offers all the necessary tools.

Spinal Cord Injuries

Traumatic Brain Injury

Rehabilitation Information

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