Mailing List Discussions in Arts, Disabilities, and Education

If you are a "newbie" or newcomer to the world of email discussion lists, it is strongly suggested that you review the following page on Email group Netiquette: http://www.our-kids.org/Archives/email_netiquette.html before participating in a group.

Most of these lists are monitored. If you want to receive a summary at the end of the day of all of the messages, request the "digest" version for your subscription.

A large collection of Arts based discussions and newsgroups is located in the Art Resources section of the Gallery.These include art and fine art, art education, art therapy, and museums.

See also the Web Resources database on this site for additional forums, discussion groups, and chats.

General Directories of Listservs:

• targeted subject directories of listservs
• individual disabilities groups
• public newsgroups
• more arts, disabilities, gen. education, homeschooling and distance learning groups

General sites listing listservs:

1. http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
2. Liszt: http://www.liszt.com/
3. http://tile.net/listserv/
4. List of Lists: http://www-med.stanford.edu/touchstone/listserv.html

Directories of Lists:

Many individual topical discussions are listed in each area:

• Health and Disability Related Mailing Lists: http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/master.html
• Discussion Lists in Special Education and Disabilities: http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/cise/ose/resources/spedlists.html
• OT Therapy lists of Listservs, http://www.mother.com/~ktherapy/ot/RELATED/rr_lists.htm includes descriptions and subscription instructions
• Children's Disability List of Lists (good descriptions): http://comeunity.com/special_needs/speclists.html
• Disability/Medical Related lists (Includes how to start your own list): http://www.eskimo.com/~jlubin/disabled/listserv.htm
• TRI Online Disability Links - Newsgroups and Listservs: links directly to newsgroups: http://www.taconicresources.net/resources/adv.shtml

Individual disability groups:

• Disability advocacy: deja.com.
• Our Kids site and lists: http://www.our-kids.org/ Our Kids listserv: http://www.our-kids.org/oklistserv.html
• Public Libraries and Learning Disabilities Initiative List: http://tile.net/lists/plldl.html
• Working with Disabled People: http://tile.net/lists/sightlingslworking.html
• Disability Task Force: http://tile.net/lists/adalist.html
• Disability-action-L: http://tile.net/lists/disabilityactionl.html
• Disability Services and Programs List: http://tile.net/lists/dspl.html
• rch-disability, Advisory Board of the Research Clearing House for Disability & Rehabilitation: http://tile.net/lists/rchdisability.html
• rehab_disability: http://tile.net/lists/rehabdisability.html
• Amputee List: http://www.amp-info.net/amp-l.htm

  Or

• Create your own list: http://www.egroups.com/

Public Newsgroups:

Please note that these groups are open to the public and generally are not moderated in any way. As such, there are often remarks in uncouth language and inappropriate postings. If you do not wish to subject yourself or others to these comments and spam, it is suggested that you keep to the private mailing lists which are moderated by a human being.

Many of these groups can be accessed without a newsreader program or ISP serving them at http://www.deja.com . From there you can either read the messages online at their site, or have a digest version of the messages sent to you at the end of each day.

• alt.education.disabled
• deja.com.disabilityadvocacy
• k12.ed.special
• k12.chat.teacher
• school.teachers

To submit a list to be included in the resources above, send email to: webmaster@vsarts.org.