Caring for Clients/Patients with Disabilities

This ADA fact sheet offers quick information on how whether or not a health care facility is accessible and other information on accessibility.

A good overview with links to resources for health care providers on how to provide effective and compassionate care for people with disabilities.

In order to make patients and clients feel respected and comfortable, a health care professional must use appropriate verbal and nonverbal language. This resource provides basic information on how to respectfully communicate with people with various disabilities.

This WHO article provides a comprehensive description of disability and its effects on people's lives, the unmet need for health care, barriers to care, and many more topics.

This website provides disability statistics, reports, and research tools and has search filters in order to find statistics related to specific disability types, gender, race, ethnicity, age, and more.

The U.S. Department of Labor collects statistics on disability within the workforce to further research and policy initiatives.

The mission of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics (StatsRRTC) is to narrow and actively bridge the divide between the producers and end users of disability statistics, thereby supporting better data collection, more accurate information, better decision-making, more effective programs, and better lives for people with disabilities.

Provides information about health and personal social service use, future requirements for services, and general information about physical and sensory disabilities.

An open-access book with information about therapeutic approaches, including both genetic and physical, to neurobiological disabilities.

This link is to a comprehensive reference packet about ADA guidelines for health care facilities.

A commentary on the lack of access to basic health care for people with physical disabilities, including the inaccessibility of most exam room and diagnostic equipment.

This journal provides information on community psychiatric practice as well as book and film reviews on community mental health theory, practice and research for professionals in the field.

Contains research regarding mental health evaluation, services, clinical reports, and policy issues.

This journal covers a wide range of topics, including evaluation techniques, special problem areas, working with other disciplines, and communicating new information regarding OT in mental health.

The American Psychiatric Association put together a list of FAQs for primary care physicians about integrating behavioral health care into primary care.

This website provides an overview of many of the healthcare providers involved in mental health care, include those who conduct assessment and those responsible for prescribing medication.

This is a guide that focuses on caring for individuals with learning disabilities in the community and what their health needs could be.

This book provides information about the skills and knowledge that health care providers need in order to be most effective when working with these groups.

This website provides information about specific learning disabilities and how treatment and therapy may be covered insurance.

A Nursing in Practice article about communication, adjustments to care, and other information about caring for patients with learning disabilities in primary care.

This journal covers a wide variety of topics such as evaluation of abilities, learning interventions, and medication.

A journal that discusses the causes of intellectual or developmental disability, as well as interventions.

This book uses the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health to create chapters regarding outcome measures for children with developmental disabilities.

CDC videos from the 2019 Public Health Grand Rounds about the efforts for improving health outcomes for people with ID and how health care professionals can reach this goal.

A resource for caregivers of a person with an intellectual disability, with information about their health, considerations, and questions to ask a physician.

This guideline covers recognising and diagnosing autism spectrum disorder in children and young people from birth up to 19 years. It also covers referral. It aims to improve the experience of children, young people and those who care for them.

This book covers how nurses can provide evidence-based health care to individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder that meets their needs across the lifespan and different health care settings.

This article is published by the Cleveland Clinic and covers several issues concerning healthcare providers, such as Asperger Syndrome no longer being a diagnosis, diagnosing an adult with ASD, and comorbid conditions.

This website provides several resources for healthcare providers who are working with individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder including trainings, curriculums, and screenings.

Boston Medical Center's website about different toolpacks they have developed for patients to feel more comfortable in the hospital, especially children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Provides an interdisciplinary approach to health care and related topics that concern women. Focuses on the newest theories, skills, and procedures. Covers nursing, health care, psychology, sociology, & anthropology.

Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further twenty suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of national and international policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental human right. This book draws together insights and experiences of development practitioners, policy-makers, academic experts and private sector partners to describe the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). A public private partnership based in India, the WHI took a new approach to.

This website provides several resources for women with disabilities including breast and cervical cancer screenings, healthy living, and intimate partner violence.

This website provides information about health, housing, employment , and education for women and girls with disabilities.