The Nearest Relative Handbook (2nd edition): This book tells how to know who someone's nearest relative is when subject to the Mental Health Act in the United Kingdom.
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Exploring Bullying with Adults with Autism and Asperger Syndrome: A Photocopiable Workbook: This book has ideas to help both the bully, and the person being bullied.
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Life Planning for Adults with Developmental Disabilities: A Guide for Parents and Family Members: A book for families of children and adults with DD to help plan for the future. They will learn how to choose the best place for their loved ones to live when they leave home and how to find meaningful work and recreation activities for them.
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Fair Play: This is a film about a group of people with disabilities who performed a play. The play was about parents who needed to make difficult choices when they learned their unborn child had disabilities.
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Antecedent Assessment and Interventions: A book about how to provide care for individuals with developmental disabilities who have challenging behavior.
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My Son Fred - Living with Autism: How Could You Manage? I Couldn't. I Did It Anyway: This book is a mother's story about living with her son Fred. Fred has an intellectual disability and autism.
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RRTC on Workplace Supports and Job Retention - Virginia Commonwealth University: This Center studies the supports people with disabilities need to stay with jobs.
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Access for All: The Minnesota Travel Guide for Persons with Disabilities: This group has a website with information about hotels/motels, restaurants, campgrounds and interesting places to visit in Minnesota. It tells how well each spot works for people who have disabilities.
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We Thought You'd Never Ask: Voices of People with Autism: A film in which six adults with autism talk about issues related to autism.
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Project Search: This program helps youth, young adults and adults with disabilities to prepare for and succeed on the job. It is part of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio.
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Autism and Faith: A Journey into Community: A book about including children and adults with autism in faith communities. This guide contains real life stories and short articles written by family members, theologians, pastors, rabbis, people with autism, and professionals.
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There is Room at the Inn: Inns and B&Bs for Wheelers and Slow Walkers: This is a guide to finding bed and breakfasts that will work well for wheelchair users, and others who have access needs.
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End-of-Life Care for Children and Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A book written to help professionals and families with end-of-life care decisions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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A Training Manual for Direct Care Staff: A book to help DSPs better understand the sexual behavior of the people they support.
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Connecting With Your Asperger Partner Negotiating the Maze of Intimacy (coming in September, 2010): This book deals with intimate relationships when one person has Asperger Syndrome and the other does not.
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Stories of Transitions to the Adult World: This book has stories about four young people who have disabilities. They are working toward post high school goals into adulthood.
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Through the Same Door: Inclusion Includes College: This DVD tells the story of Janice's son, Micah. Micah has an intellectual disability and is going to college.
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The International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers (IGODAP): This is an organization of artists and performers who have a disability. It includes people from around the world.
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Fruit Rainbow: A DVD video for people with developmental disabilities about the importance of eating fruit.
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Working with Parents Who Have Cognitive Limitations: This is a video for school teachers, nurses, social service providers. It shows how to work with parents who have an intellectual disability.
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Conversation Skills: On the Job and in the Community: This book teaches people ways to talk with others that will help them in their jobs.
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Babies with Down Syndrome: A New Parents' Guide (3rd Edition): This is a book for new parents who have a child with Down Syndrome. It covers the best practices for raising and caring for a child with Down Syndrome.
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Australian Family and Disability Studies Research Collaboration Faculty of Health Sciences: This program and their web site has lots of information about disability and family issues. There is information about children and adults, becoming parents, and much more.
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Discovering Your Personal Power: A Real Life Curriculum for Self-Advocates: This CD helps people learn they have power. It can help them change both their lives and their communities.
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Self-Determination Tools for Direct Support Staff: This is a program to help direct support staff promote self-determination for people with disabilities. The program includes a DVD of practice exercises and a viewer guide.
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Leisure Works: This program shows people with disabities how to find new leisure activities, and learn new skills. It also helps DSPs.
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My Life Book: A DVD, CD, and activity book that are designed to help families think through and design a plan for the future.
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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.
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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.
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A Parenting Guide for Families of Children with Disabilities: Developing Social Skills Towards Independent Living: This book helps families decide how to raise their child with a disability. It is easy to follow
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S.T.A.R.S.: Skills Training for Assertiveness, Relationship-Building, and Sexual Awareness: A book for teaching youth and adults with disabilities about positive sexual relationships and ways to prevent sexual abuse.
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Preparing for College: An Online Tutorial: This online fact sheet talks about the steps that students with disabilities should take to prepare for college.
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A Parent's Guide to Down Syndrome Toward a Brighter Future, Revised Edition: A book for new parents who have a child with Down syndrome. It covers information to help improve the child's quality of life.
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Transition to College: Strategic Planning to Ensure Success for Students: This brochure is to help students with learning disabilities do well in college.
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Rejoicing Spirits Ministry: An organization that helps churches become more inclusive of people with disabilities.
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Health Matters for People with Developmental Disabilities: Creating a Sustainable Health Promotion Program: A book for providers of direct service to people with intellectual disabilities. It is about how to increase supports for health education, exercise and nutrition.
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Learn and Earn: Tips for Teens: How high school students can prepare for careers: This fact sheet helps students with disabilities explore career options while in high school.
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Healthy Times: A medical newsletter for doctors, nurses and caregivers of persons with developmental disabilities. It is published twice a year.
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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.
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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.
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Disability Nation: An audio magazine by and for people with disabilities. It provides the latest news on disability issues in a magazine format. It is available on the web and select radio reading services across the United States.
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DO-IT Streaming Video Presentations with Support Publications: These are short videos about the transition from school to work for young adults with disabilities.
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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.
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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.
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College Is Possible for Students With Intellectual Disabilities: This article is from U.S. News and World Report. It is about students with intellectual disabilities being able to go to college.
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Association of University Centers on Disability (AUCD): A national organization for the university centers which engage in research and education about a wide variety of disabilities issues.
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Laura Abulafia, MHS: Laura is the Director of the Environmental Health Initiative at the
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. She is a resource for environmental health issues.
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Transition Planner for Postsecondary Education: This planner helps high school students get ready for college.
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Sensory Friendly Films program: A program where AMC movie theaters make their environment more accepting and comfortable for people with autism and other disabilities.
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A Bright Idea: Behind the Scenes of Bright Lights Theatre: This film is about a play that was performed and produced by people who have disabilities.
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Does Physical Disability Make a Parent Less Fit?: This blog article tells the stories of two moms who have disabilities. It asks whether having a disability makes someone less fit to be a parent.
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Parenting with Disabilities: A story on CNN.com about being a parent who has a disability. The story includes videos with the parents who were interviewed.
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The R-Word Campaign: An initiative to stop the use of a hurtful word. It was started by two parents.
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Disability Resources - Travel & Leisure: This web page has links to travel and recreation opportunities around the world. All are especially for people with disabilities.
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101 Accessible Vacations: Travel Ideas for Wheelers and Slow Walkers: This book has vacation ideas for people with disabilities. It is written by a person who uses a wheelchair and covers vacation "hot spots."
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Barrier-Free Travel Third Edition: This book has ideas for handling problems with accessibility when traveling.
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Alert! Newsletter: This newsletter has the latest news from Institute on Disability and Human Development, a UCEDD located at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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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.
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Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities: A peer reviewed research journal that publishes original research related to mental health and psychopathology in persons with intellectual disabilities. It is affiliated with NADD (the National Association for the
Dually Diagnosed).
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New Directions for People with Disabilities, Inc.: This organization provides a chance for people with intellectual disabilities to travel together.
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New Directions for People with Disabilities, Inc: This agency offers vacations for people with disabilities. It is located in Santa Barbara, California.
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Estate Planning for People with a Chronic Condition or Disability: This book is about estate planning for people with disabilities or chronic illness.
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Employment Issues and Multiple Sclerosis: Second Edition: This book is written for people who have Multiple Sclerosis that have questions about employment and disability issues.
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Asperger Syndrome and Social Relationships: Adults Speak Out about Asperger Syndrome: This book has ideas to help people with Asperger's Syndrome learn to develop friendships.
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Asperger Syndrome and Employment : Adults Speak Out about Asperger Syndrome: This is a guide for helping people with Asperger's Syndrome get a job.
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Making Sense of Sex A Forthright Guide to Puberty, Sex and Relationships for People with Asperger's Syndrome: This book is about sexuality and people with Asperger's Syndrome.
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Social Skills for Teenagers and Adults with Asperger Syndrome A Practical Guide to Day-to-Day Life: This book is about helping people with Asperger's Syndrome learn social skills and make friends. It has tools for youth to work through to practice the skills. The entire book is available to read online.
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Landscape of Literacy and Disability: A book that looks at the relationship between disability and literacy in Canada. The findings in the book are intended to impact disability policy and service development.
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The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome (2nd Edition in Paperback): This book explains Asperger Syndrome. It is a handbook and manual.
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Coming Out Asperger: Diagnosis, Disclosure and Self-Confidence: This book is about whether or not to tell people that you have Asperger Syndrome.
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Realizing the College Dream with Autism or Asperger Syndrome A Parent's Guide to Student Success: This book is a parent's story about her son with ASD who went to college. The entire book can be viewed online.
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22 Things a Woman Must Know If She Loves a Man with Asperger's Syndrome: This book gives women tips about having a good relationship with a man who has Asperger Syndrome (AS). The author is a person who has AS.
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Being a Healthy Adult: How to Advocate for Your Health and Health Care: The purpose of this guidebook is to help young adults with disabilities learn how to become effective self-advocates for their own health and health care.
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The Karen Gaffney Foundation: The Karen Gaffney Foundation works toward the full inclusion of people with Down Syndrome.
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National Multiple Sclerosis Society: The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is an organization which works to improve the quality of life for people who have this disease.
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Developing College Skills in Students with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: This book talks about the skills needed for a person with Asperger Syndrome to suceed in college.
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Asperger Syndrome and Employment: A Personal Guide to Succeeding at Work (DVD): In this DVD, a man who has Asperger Syndrome talks about the experiences and challenges he has had at work.
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Life After High School A Guide for Students with Disabilities and Their Families: This book helps prepare students for life after graduation from high school.
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Social Skills Hamper Job Hopes For Adults On The Spectrum: An article about why people with Aspergers Syndrome are having a hard time getting jobs.
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College Planning for Students with Disabilities: This brochure tells students with disabilities the things they need to do to prepare for college.
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Peaceful Living: Peaceful Living is a faith-based advocacy service for children and adults to help them build life-long friendships within their faith communities. It is located in Pennsylvania.
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The Managed Health Care Curriculum: Supporting People with Disabilities to Utilize Managed Health Care: An active training curriculum for direct support staff, people with disabilities, and families relating to a person's health.
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The Geese and the Peanut Butter Chocolate Ice Cream: This book helps persons with disabilities and people who support them deal with death, loss and grief.
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There Are No Words: This is a fictional book about a girl with autism. It helps the reader learn about autism from the perspective of a character with autism.
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Beyond Accessibility: Toward Full Inclusion of People with Disabilities: This book is about full inclusion of people with disabilities into faith communities.
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DISaBUZZ: A website that has short videos about what it means to live with a disability.
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Down Syndrome: For New Parents: This web site is for new parents of children with Down Syndrome.
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Health Disparities between Women with Physical Disabilities* and Women in the General Population: This part of a web site from the Center for Research on Women with Disabilities, Baylor University. This part of the site talks about the difference between the health status of women with and without disabilities.
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Association for Positive Behavior Support: An international organization that seeks to increase quality of life and decrease problem behaviors.
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End-of-life Care: Bridging Disability And Aging With Person Centered Care: A book about end of life care both for people with disabilities and people who are aging. It has real life examples and chapters that are responses to these papers from experts in the field.
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KeyRing: An organization that helps people from England and Wales to live independently in their own homes. It also seeks to allow members to share their skills and talents with each other and with their communities.
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Temple Grandin - DVD: This DVD is about a woman who has autism. She has done more in her life than many "normal" folks.
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Temple Grandin Website: A website of Dr. Temple Grandin. She is an animal scientist and autism self-advocate who is known all over the world.
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Career Success of Disabled High-flyers: This book is about people with disabilities who have careers.
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Knowledge and Skills for Social Care Workers: This is a set of six books to help DSPs do a better job supporting people. Each book is about a different topic.
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Health and safety for disabled workers and people who work with them: An easy to read guide: This brochure talks about the rights of workers to be safe. It is easy to read.
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Can I tell you about Asperger Syndrome? A guide for friends and family: This is a book for 7 to 15 year olds. A young boy with Asperger Syndome explains his disability.
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It's Our Story: A project that seeks to create an online database that gives people with disabilities a voice. The project hopes to make thousands of videos, written testimonies and photographs available for free online.
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Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism (Revised Edition, Edition Number 2): The author of this book talks about living with autism.
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Aspergers from the Inside Out: A Supportive and Practical Guide for Anyone with Asperger's Syndrome: This book is about a man with Asperger Syndrom who wasn't diagnosed until he was thirty six years old. His diagnosis came when his son was also found to be affected by the disorder.
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Asperger Syndrome and Employment: What People with Asperger Syndrome Really Really Want: This book talks about how difficult it is for people with Asperger Syndrome to keep a job and how hard a job can be for them.
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Mile High Down Syndrome Association: This organization provides support and information about Down Syndrome.
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Special Needs Trusts: Protect Your Child's Financial Future (Third Edition): This book is about how to set up a special needs trust for your child or a loved one. It includes a CD with forms.
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Legal Planning for Special Needs In Massachusetts: A Family Guide to SSI, Guardianship, and Estate Planning (2010 Edition): This books explains how to do estate planning when there is a person with a disability in the family.
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Mental Health Aspects of Autism and Asperger Syndrome: This book talks about mental health problems that may exist for people who are on the autism spectrum.
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Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF): DREDF is an organization that fights for the civil and human rights of people with disabilities.
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Active Minds: Active Minds is a student run organization on college campuses that educates students about mental health.
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Autism.Lovetoknow.com: This is a website about many aspects of autism. On the website are articles related to current information involving autism.
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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.
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The Unplanned Journey: When You Learn That Your Child Has a Disability: This is a web article that talks about some of the feelings parents have after finding out that their child has a disability.
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Benefits For Children With Disabilities (2010): This booklet gives information on applying for SSI for your child with a disability.
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Benefits For Children With Disabilities 2010: This booklet tells how children and youth can make use of SSI and SSDI benefits. It is written to parents.
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Disability Rights (Home Page in the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice website): A website of the United States government. This Disability Rights section seeks to help people with disabilities to have equal opportunity by the implementatation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities: This is a national web site with a lot of information about children and youth with disabilities.
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Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities (OMHD) -- Disability: The purpose of this portion of the web site is to promote the health of people with disabilities.
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Children with a Disability - Support for Parents: This fact sheet tells how to help parents of a child with a disability. It is from the Better Health Channel website of the State of Victoria, Australia.
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Road Map to Holland: A book about a mother's experience raising a child with down syndrome.
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14 Tips on How Parents Who Have a Child with a Disability Can Organize Their Estate: This fact sheet tells parents how to set up their estate for a child with a disability.
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Using the ADA for Parents of Children with Disabilities: This fact sheet talks about a part of the ADA that protects parents of children with disabilities.
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Becoming a Person Centered System: This report explains a systems change initiative. It begins with training DSPs in Person Centered Planning, and leads to changes in how both agencies and service systems do their work.
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USBLNŽ Annual Conference & Expo: This is an annual conference about disability and business. It helps make it so people with disabilities can be professionals, customers, and businessmen/businesswomen.
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Direct Care Alliance, Inc: This organization advocates for DSPs. It helps DSPs receive adequate pay, good benefits, and respect as professionals.
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My Plan: An online planning tool to help create a person centered plan in the areas of home, community, health and work.
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