 | A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities
This handbook is about the health of women with disabilities. |
| A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities
A health handbook for women with disabilities. It is written by, and for people around the world. |
| A Practical Guide for Health Management of Aging Adults with Mental Retardation
A book providing an outline of physical, and mental health issues common in older adults with developmental disabilities. |
| A Practical Guide to Psychopharmacology
This book describes brain development, and the ways drugs act on the brain. It also includes information about epilepsy.
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| Abilitations
"Abilitations" is a catalog source for children with special needs offering therapist-selected products intended for children's therapy, special education, and special needs. |
| Achieving a Beneficial Fitness: A Program and a Philosophy in Mental Retardation
This short book explains why physical fitness is important for people with mental retardation. it also suggests a health and fitness program for those who may be starting to work towards their first fitness goals.
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| Aging and Disability: Research and Clinical Perspectives
A text-book discussing many aspects of aging, about both people with disabilities who are aging and aging people who now have disabilities |
| Aging with a Developmental Disability
A paper about the special needs of elders who have developmental disabilities. It was made in Canada |
| Aging with a Disability: What the Clinician Needs to Know
This book is about changes that happen as a person with a disability gets older, ways to deal with those changes, and ways to support people as they age. |
| Aging with a Physical Disability (An issue of the series Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics)
This is a special issue about aging with different types of disabilities. It is part of a reference series of books. |
| Aging with Cerebral Palsy
This book is about some of the things that may happen as a person with Cerebral Palsy gets older. It is written for people with Cerebral Palsy. |
| Aging with Developmental Disabilities: Women's Health Issues
A fact sheet addressing the most commonly asked questions by women who are aging. Topics include menopause, osteoporosis, heart disease, and how to stay healthy.
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| Barriers to accessing health care for people with disabilities. A checklist for people with disabilities, their families and disability advocates
This checklist covers the things that often keep people with disabilities from getting good health care. |
| Caring Relationships: Helping People with Mental Impairments Understand God's Gift of Sexuality
A guidebook for caregivers and friends of people with ID/DD around questions of sexuality/relationships. |
| Counselling People with Developmental Disabilities Who Have Been Sexually Abused
A book and video designed to assist those providing treatment for people with developmental disabilities who have been sexually abused. |
| Demystifying Syndromes
This book serves as a practical summary of some of the common syndromes related to developmental disabilities for professionals and students in the field. |
| Diabetes Awareness and Education Project Media Materials
Booklets, DVDs, VHS tapes and wallet-sized tipcards to educate
individuals with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers about the prevention and control of type 2 diabetes. |
| Different Speeds and Different Needs: How to Teach Sports to Every Kid
A book for K-12 physical educators and coaches. It shows how to establish and sustain inclusive sports programs that are fun and welcoming for students with a wide range of special needs. It has
practical guidance and examples. |
| Disability and Public Health
A book that introduces disability issues to college students. It is written for people interested in public health and related fields. |
| Down Syndrome
This is a fact sheet about the health needs of people who have Down Syndrome. It covers issues across the lifespan. |
| Every Child Deserves a Medical Home: Facilitator Training Manual
This curriculum provides a framework for creating a system that increases the quality of care for children with special health care needs and their families. |
| Family Information Notebook (FIN)
A notebook for parents who have a child with a disability. It has information and forms to help coordinate aspects of the child's care and health. |
| Health Advocacy Program
This book teaches self-advocates how to live a healthy lifestyle. |
| Health of Women with Intellectual Disabilities
This book is about the health issues of women with intellectual disabilities. |
| Health Promotion for People With Developmental Disabilities
A two-page fact sheet with tips on staying healthy. |
| Health Promotion for Persons with Intelllectual and Developmental Disabilities: The State of Scientific Evidence
This key report summarizes current research about the health and well being of persons with intellectual disabilities grouped by major topic. It also suggests solutions to eliminate health disparities among this population. |
| Health Screening and Risk-Reduction for Breast, Prostate and Colon Cancer
Booklets to teach individuals with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers about screening and risk-reduction of breast, prostate and colon cancer. |
| Hearing Changes in Aging People with Mental Retardation
A fact sheet providing answers to frequently asked questions about age-related hearing loss, especially for people with developmental disabilities. |
| Intellectual Disability and Ill Health: A Review of the Evidence
This textbook is about some health problems that go untreated in persons with intellectual disabilities. |
| Intellectual Disability and Social Inclusion
This book talks about how hard it can be for people with disabilities to find health care and social services. It focuses on issues in the United Kingdom. |
| Launching into Adulthood An Integrated Response to Support Transition of Youth with Chronic Health Conditions and Disabilities
This books explains how best to help young adults with health problems through the transition process. |
| Mouth Matters: Oral Health for People with Disabilities
A small pamphlet on the importance of oral health for people with disabilities. |
| Pediatric Provider Capacity for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Results from a national Survey of State Title V Directors
"This report summarizes the results of a national survey of state Title V directors of programs for children with special health care needs on access to pediatric providers" (Taken from MCPPRC website). |
| People with Disabilities as a Health Disparities Population: The Case of Sexual and Reproductive Health Disparities.
This article is about the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from receiving the healthcare they need. It also suggests steps to eliminate each. |
| PossAbilities
A curriculum teaching people of all abilities to create relationships and make safe, responsible choices about sexuality. Issues include self-esteem, personal space, choices & consequences, appropriate social behavior, abuse prevention and sex education. |
| Project MED booklet series
This is a set of eight education booklets about medicines, specifically designed for individuals with learning problems, reading problems, or trouble understanding why they are taking medicine. |
| Promoting Health Care Transitions for Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities
This book is about the healthcare needs of youth who have disabilities. |
| Psychiatric Problems in Older Persons with Developmental Disabilities
Book describing psychiatric problems in people with developmental disabilities as they age. |
| Quality in Practice: Health
A resource guide that provides suggestions on how service organizations can support good health to the greatest extent possible. |
| Sexuality Education of Children and Adolescents With Developmental Disabilities
This product is a policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics about secuality and adolescents with disabilities. |
| Smoking Cessation for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
This is a curriculum on stoping smoking. It is for persons with developmental disabilities. |
| Supporting People During Hospitalization
Practical information to help staff support individuals with disabilities throughout and after hospitalization. It gives practical advice for setting up effective communication systems with hospitals, from admission through discharge planning. |
| Taking Charge of Your Health
A book about common healthcare problems and how to avoid them. It is written mostly for people with physical disabilities and can be downloaded from the web. |
| Teaching Children with Down Syndrome about Their Bodies, Boundaries, and Sexuality
A book for parents of children with Down syndrome to guide them when teaching their child about sexuality. |
| The Down Syndrome Nutrition Handbook: A Guide to Promoting Healthy Lifestyles 2nd Edition
Many books are written to tell you *what* needs to be done. The Down Syndrome Nutrition Handbook shares *how* it can be done. Each topic sets the stage for fun, active learning and provides the step-by-step, how-to lesson plans to stay on target. |
| The Multiple Sclerosis Manifesto: Action to Take, Principles to Live By
This book is about having MS. |
| The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A book about the encounter between a Hmong family and the American medical community over a child with seizures. The book deals with some fundamental issues surrounding scientific progress, cultural traditions and beliefs, and humanity. |
| Abilitations
"Abilitations" is a catalog source for children with special needs offering therapist-selected products intended for children's therapy, special education, and special needs. |
| Barriers to accessing health care for people with disabilities. A checklist for people with disabilities, their families and disability advocates
This checklist covers the things that often keep people with disabilities from getting good health care. |
| Brain Injury Dialogues
This is a film about the impact that brain injury has had on a person and on other people with brain injuries. |
| CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
In April 2001, the CDC opened the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. The mission of the center is to conduct research into the causes and risk factors associated with birth defects and developmental disabilities. |
| Challenge
A film about outdoor sports. Participation enriches everyone's lives, including people with physical and developmental disabilities. |
| Christopher Reeve: Hope in Motion
On May 27th, 1995, Christopher Reeve, known to the world as Superman, was paralyzed from the neck down in a riding accident. This DVD follows him closely over many months of treatment.
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| Counselling People with Developmental Disabilities Who Have Been Sexually Abused
A book and video designed to assist those providing treatment for people with developmental disabilities who have been sexually abused. |
| Diabetes Awareness and Education Project Media Materials
Booklets, DVDs, VHS tapes and wallet-sized tipcards to educate
individuals with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers about the prevention and control of type 2 diabetes. |
| Diabetes Management for Persons with Mental Illness and Developmental Disabilities
This DVD explains how diabetes is recognized and managed, and shares her experiences caring for people who have diabetes along with a developmental disability or a mental illness.
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| Ease into fitness
Ease into Fitness is a video on exercise for the entire body developed by disability development specialists for general use. |
| Growing Older with A Developmental Disability: Physical and Cognitive Changes And Their Implications
This webpage explains the changes that happen for people with disabilities as they grow older. |
| Guide To Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Coverage for People with Developmental Disabilities
This Web site will help individuals who receive Medicaid and Medicare benefits (called dual eligibles) understand the new Medicare prescription drug coverage, called Part D. |
| Health Advocacy Program
This book teaches self-advocates how to live a healthy lifestyle. |
| Health Care Transition
Health Care Transition is a resource and training website to help people with disabilities transition successfully from pediatric to adult healthcare. |
| Illnesses and Disabilities (womenshealth.gov)
This is part of a larger web site about women's health. This part has a lot of information on how to stay healthy as a person with a disability. |
| Intellectual Disability, Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Intersectorality Website
A partnership in Canada between researchers and service providers to people with disabilities. These groups work together to learn new ideas about providing better services. They then offer training and write papers about the things they have learned. |
| Medline Plus
website with health information |
| Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder
This DVD shows what it is like to have trouble with "sensory integration." It talks mostly about children and also explains how parents, teachers and others can help. |
| Pediatric Provider Capacity for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Results from a national Survey of State Title V Directors
"This report summarizes the results of a national survey of state Title V directors of programs for children with special health care needs on access to pediatric providers" (Taken from MCPPRC website). |
| PediaVision
A new way to assess vision for those who have difficulty with eye exams, such as children with autism. |
| People with Disabilities Can Lead Long, Healthy Lives
This web page shows people with disabilities some of the things they can do to live longer, healthier lives. |
| Populations: Minorities With Disabilities
This is a section of a website that talks about the health of people of color with disabilities. |
| Positioning, Turning and Transferring
This video(DVD)teaches staff some basic principles of body mechanics, positioning techniques and guidelines, as well as the importance of dignity and respect. It covers privacy, and maintaining a sense of control for the person with the disability.
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| PossAbilities
A curriculum teaching people of all abilities to create relationships and make safe, responsible choices about sexuality. Issues include self-esteem, personal space, choices & consequences, appropriate social behavior, abuse prevention and sex education. |
| Reproductive Health Care for Women with Disabilities
This is a powerpoint presentation on health care for women with disabilities. It is useful for doctors and health care professionals, and for women with disabilities. |
| Secondary Conditions of Spinal Cord Injury: Health Education Video Series
A video series on health issues for people with spinal cord injury. |
| Sexuality and Reproductive Health--Pregnancy and Delivery
A webpage about how women with disabilities and their doctors need to work together through pregnancy and childbirth. |
| State Health Facts Online
A website with health care coverage availability information for all 50 states. |
| Take Charge Training: Exercise and Nutrition for People with Mental Illness
This DVD training discusses the importance of good nutritional habits and proper exercise. Also discussed are the challenges faced in various settings including the mental health center, the home and the community.
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| Take Control: How to Stay Healthy and Safe from HIV and AIDS
Take Control: How to Stay Healthy and Safe from HIV and AIDS is a multi-media presentation for People with Developmental Disabilities.
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| Technology for Long Term Care
This is a free government funded website with information on hundreds of technology products for seniors and persons with disabilities with long term care needs.
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| The Continuum of Care Health Website and Medical Manual
A website that provides healthcare information, consultation services, training and interactive medical resources for adults with developmental disabilities, professionals and families who support them. |
| The Safety Net
DDS Safety Net is a compendium of tools and articles on risk and risk management. It is designed for consumers with developmental disabilities and their families, and for staff and providers. |
| Walk Your Way to Fitness
This program and set of DVD's and CD-ROM is about how to help persons with intellectual disabilities start their own walking and fitness program. |
| Women Living With Disabilities
This web site has many topics that are helpful for women with disabilities. |
| Work Out with Sonny & Pedro: Walk, Dance and Stretch Your Way to Fitness
A DVD that includes 9 different workout routines for people with intellectual disabilities. |
