Interprofessional Education & Tool-kits

American Interprofessional Health Collaborative.  (AIHC) The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education is committed to interprofessional practice and education. AIHC contributes to better health and improved outcomes by redesigning how the health care workforce is prepared and how care is organized and delivered.  AIHC members work locally, nationally and internationally to influence policy, develop and share best practices and resources, conduct research, mentor and support colleagues and remove barriers to effective action

• Academic Autism Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education

• AAspire Inclusive Research Tool Kit

• Association of University Centers on Disabilities AUCD is a diverse Network of practitioners, researchers, educators, Emerging Leaders, people with disabilities, community advocates, and professionals.

• CDC - Center for Disease and Health and further resource Disability and Health Overview

• The Center for Dignity in Healthcare for People with Disabilities  (funded by the Administration for Community Living) is an interdisciplinary coalition of stakeholders, including medical providers, researchers, ethicists, individuals with disabilities, and their family members. The Center’s goal is to identify and reduce life-limiting healthcare inequities faced by people with intellectual and developmental (ID/DD) disabilities.

• The CMS Data Element Library (DEL) is the centralized resource for CMS assessment instrument, data elements (assessment items) that measure patient ability status and level of need for assistance to complete activities (and may be included for quality measurement of care). They allow standardized measurements of patients’ abilities in rehabilitation across post acute care settings including the patient’s physical, cognitive and communication abilities.

• • Nationally Implemented  Assessment Instruments by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 

  • List of Available Search Options: Searches allow you to find info by entering partial info and then view more info to find more precise info that you need.

• Communication Disabilities Access Canada - Accessibility Includes Communication Impairment

• • Access to Healthcare services – Sarah Blackstone Webinar

  • Capacity and Consent: The Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist

  • Capacity to Consent to Treatment: Legal Information.

• Communication-Friendly Health Care Strategies- Six helpful strategies you can use in your day-to-day conversations in this five-minute Communication Access video. (Alberta Health Services – Canadian Organization)

• • Information for Health Professionals

  • Schools and Educators

  • Research and Innovation

See the following vast Resource that you can adapt for Inter-Disciplinary Curriculum Building

• Disability Curricular Building Resource on Issues of Disability and Disability-Competent Care: Diversity and Justice Supplement  

• These Curriculum resources below can be used in part for all disciplines when you select those applicable to your discipline and then add more discipline specific items. Think of these as an example of what YOU could create for your discipline - It was organized by SW Core Competencies:

• 1. Disability Educational Resource Database provides an extensive Excel spreadsheet that helps you to see and create a model of disability curriculum. See this incredible tool as it can be used as is for SW or as a model for any healthcare profession.

  2. CSWE’s incredible model of how to build a Disability Curriculum Describes in detail how this model above was built. It can be used in part for ALL healthcare professions. The model uses its SW profession's core competencies to indicate how each Disability Resource fulfills each of the competencies.(see #1 above to see the excel spreadsheet detailing these)  These resources would benefit all healthcare professional's education in disability and healthcare and be sure to see the Excel Spreadsheet in item #1 above.

• Disability Equity Collaborative (DEC) “supports individuals, healthcare organizations, policy makers, advocates, researchers, and professional organizations working to address the health disparities experienced by patients with all types of disabilities.”

• • EHR Documentation of Disability Status Guidelines - Resource

• Georgetown University  University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Education, Research and Service (UCEDD).

• • LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities  Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) provide long-term, graduate level interdisciplinary training, services and care. Health improvements of infants, children, and adolescents with disabilities. Goal: prep trainees from diverse professional disciplines to assume leadership roles in their respective fields and by ensuring high levels of interdisciplinary clinical competence providing the expert faculty, facilities, and other resources necessary to provide exceptional interdisciplinary training and services.

• IDD Health Equity – Partnering to Transform Health Outcomes IDD Health Equity - Improving interprofessional health care education to end health disparities among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Explore our suite of educational tools.

• • Inclusive Health Fundamentals

  • Advanced IPE with Service Learning

  • Virtual IPE: People with IDD as Standardized Patients

  • IPE: People with IDD as Standardized Patients

• Informing Families today and tomorrow includes more resources using their Health Care Toolkits for People with Disabilities

• Medicare Eligibility for People with Disabilities (link below)  Compare your Medicare options as a person with a disability. Disability healthcare resources and information

• National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Myth Busting Health Professions and Interprofessional Education at the Crossroads

• • The Resource Center is a nearly 3,000 item, digital library of interprofessional practice and education related content. Access of all resources are free and anyone with a registered account can contribute and comment to the resource center.

•  NeuroAffirming Practice:TEDx talk produced by Bill Wong

• • Neuro-Affirming Practice (AKA neurodiversity-affirming practice)  working with this population is needed. Individuals have differences (not seen as deficits to be "fixed") in their abilities and how they interact with the world around them. The video shares ideas and examples on how neurodiversity-affirming practice can work. 

•  New Hampshire Disability and Health Program (DHP) (see blue links below)

• • The New Hampshire Disability and Health Program (DHP) Responsive Practice training for healthcare professionals on providing disability-competent care.The training is free, can be done asynchronously online, and participants can receive continuing education credits.

• Ohio State University Center Tool Kit Core Competencies Disability Health Care Education Toolkit (Nisonger Center)  This site includes many, many links for disability curriculum material and these are just a few examples per their website:

• • NEW! Responsive Practice - Disability Trainings for Healthcare Providers

  • NEW! Training for Healthcare Professionals about Caring for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients

• Patient Provider Communication Organization Website - includes Toolkits  Per website info: 

• • Communication Tools and Materials

  • Useful Information

  • Communication Planning

  • PPC Literature

  • Links to Helpful Resources

  • Research Articles 

  • Bibliography 

  • Presentations (numerous slide presentations 2016-2021) 

  • Video Presentations