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Organizations - Disability Specific
7 Jul 2023 4:24 PM | Anonymous
(Note - this section IS undergoing editing but still can be accessed) Healthcare Professionals with Disabilities - Accessibility
- Society for Healthcare Professionals with Disabilities https://www.disabilitysociety.org/
- National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities
- Docs with Disabilities Podcast Drs. Lisa Meeks and Pete Poullos take a deeper dive into the experiences of health care providers with disabilities (doctors, researchers, administrators, faculty, and policymakers) to ensure medicine remains an equitable profession.
- Association on Higher Education and Disability
AUTISM
- AMAZING resource from The Intersectional Advisory Committee: Reframing Autism Welcome to the Autistic Community: A welcoming Packet (193 pages)! Excellent for both clinicians and individuals with autism.
- AASPIRE (Academic Autism Spectrum Partnership in research and Education) Academic Autism Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education – (aaspire.org)
- Autism Now
- Autism Self Advocacy Network
- Bilingual Autism Guide
- Education on non-speaker with Autism – short online book on lived experience
- Interactive Autism Network
- Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee
- National Autism Association
- National Joint Committee for the Communication Needs of Persons With Severe Disabilities
DEMENTIA
- Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (must be a member to retrieve resources)
- Alzheimer's Association -Professional Researchers Resources
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Alzheimer's Foundation of America - Fact Sheets and Information
- American Federation for Aging Research - for researchers
- Dementia - International links and other resources
- Dementia Research Center UK Group
- Gerontological Society of America (access for members only)
- Medline Plus: Dementia
- NIH Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- NIH - National Institute on Aging: Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center
- Pioneer Network: Changing the Culture of Aging in the 21st Century Resources
INTELLECTUAL & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
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American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) includes access to journal articles
- American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine - Resources to provide multidisciplinary scientific education for health professionals and promote excellence in research and services for the benefit of people with and at risk for cerebral palsy and other childhood-onset disabilities.
- American Occupational Therapy Association Current issue abstracts of articles may be free, all others require membership
- American Physical Therapy Association numerous published articles via ESSCO link (2,936 IDD articles) free partial or full access plus filtering option!
- ASHA: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association ROBUST resources, majoirty are free access Provides ID overviews then e.g 785 "Journals and Perspectives" Excellent 76 - ASHA "Evidence Maps" a MUST to explore for any disability condtion!
- Council for Exceptional Children/Division for Communicative Disabilities and Deafness
- DDNA - Developmental Disabilities Nurses Association
- Easter Seals
- International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- National Down Syndrome Society
- National Fragile X Foundation
- FRAXA Research Foundation
- National Joint Committee for the Communication Needs of Persons With Severe Disabilities
- National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- RESNA: Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
- TASH: The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps
- The Arc for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- UCP: United Cerebral Palsy
- United States Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Stroke
- STROKE Awareness and Education Toolkit For Healthcare Providers
Many resources listed in this link, including national organizations
Traumatic Brain Injury
- American Physical Therapy Association—Mild TBI: Resources for the Management of Wounded Warriors
- Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA)
- BrainLine
- Brain Trauma Foundation
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion
- Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS): Traumatic Brain Injury: Hope Through Research
- University of Sydney: TBI Express
- U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs: National Center for PTSD
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