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Emergency Preparedness Tips for People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Provides recommendations for people who are deaf or have a hearing impairment in preparing for an emergency, including information about communicating with emergency personnel. This link opens a PDF document.
Emergency Preparedness Tips for People with Communication & Speech-Related Disabilities
Provides suggestions about communicating with emergency personnel and important items to include in an emergency kit. This link opens a PDF document.
Emergency Preparedness Tips for People with Disabilities & Medical Conditions
Provides suggestions on how to prepare for an emergency, including information about supplies to keep ready at all times and a personal emergency preparedness checklist. This link opens a PDF document.
Emergency Preparedness Tips for People with Life-Support Systems
Provides information about alternate power sources and the importance of registering with your utility company so they are aware of your specific needs. This link opens a PDF document.
Emergency Preparedness Tips for People with Visual Disabilities
Tips about preparing for emergencies for people with visual impairments. Includes information about the importance of having alternative methods to move around in your environment. This link opens a PDF document.
30 Tips for Emergency Preparedness

Information from the Department of Homeland Security to help you and your family become better prepared for an emergency. Visit Ready.gov for more information.

ASL Versions of Hurricane Preparedness Public Service Announcements (PSAs)
Videos in American Sign Language (ASL) on several emergency preparedness topics, including hurricane preparedness.
Americans with Disablities & Special Needs Video

Instructional video from Ready.gov provides information for people with a disabilities and their family members on planning for a natural disaster or emergency. A Flasher Player is required to view the video.

Creating an Evacuation Plan
Information from Ready.gov on how to create an evacuation plan in case of an emergency of natural disaster.
Developing a Family Communications Plan
Information from Ready.gov on how to prepare your family in case of an emergency or natural disaster.
DisabilityPreparedness.gov
Provides practical information on how people with and without disabilities can prepare for an emergency.
Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities

Tips from the American Red Cross on getting informed, making a plan, assembling a kit, and maintaining these plans for people with mobility problems or who have hearing, learning, or seeing disabilities.

Disaster Preparedness for Seniors by Seniors
Red Cross planning reference developed by a group of older adults who were unprepared when a massive ice storm hit their area, resulting in a power outage.
Emergency Preparedness Tips for People with Developmental or Cognitive Disabilities
Provides information about the importance of practicing evacuation from places where you spend time (such as work, home, school, a volunteer assignment, etc.) until you feel comfortable and confident that you will know what to do during and after an emergency. This link opens a PDF document.
Emergency Preparedness Tips for People with Environmental or Chemical Sensitivities
Following a major disaster, an excess of smoke, dust, molds, gas leaks and diesel from idling rescue vehicles can cause serious reactions in people with environmental or chemical sensitivities. This fact sheet provides information about important emergency supplies for people who are sensitive to certain chemical and environmental exposures. This link opens a PDF document.
Emergency Preparedness Tips for People with Psychiatric Disabilities
Provides recommendations on anticipating the types of reactions an individual may have to an emergency situation and the importance of planning ways to cope with them. This link opens a PDF document.
Emergency Preparedness for Older Americans
Information from Ready.gov regarding preparing for the needs of older Americans in an emergency situation.
Emergency Preparedness for People with Disabilities & Other Special Needs
Tips from Ready.gov regarding people with disabilities and other special needs in an emergency situation.
Fire Safety & Prevention Videos
Multimedia information designed to teach people with disabilities about home exit plans and smoke detector maintenance so that they can respond independently to fire emergencies in their homes.
Fire Safety for People with Disabilities
Information regarding fire safety for individuals with disabilities and their families and caregivers.
Planning for an Emergency - Neighborhoods & Apartments
Information from Ready.gov regarding how to develop a plan should their be an emergency or natural disaster in your community.
Preparing Makes Sense for Older Americans
Brochure from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) highlights the steps older Americans, and their families and caretakers, should take to prepare for emergencies. This link opens a PDF document. The brochure is also available in this text version.
Preparing Makes Sense for People with Disabilities & Special Needs
Brochure from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) highlights the steps Americans with disabilities and other special needs, and their families and caretakers, should take to prepare for emergencies. This link opens a PDF document. The brochure can be viewed in this text version.
Preparing for Disaster for People with Disabilities & Other Special Needs
A resource booklet designed to assist people with disabilities in preparing for natural and other disasters and their consequences. This link opens a PDF document.

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