Websites with Health and Disability Information
The following websites provide reliable information about health and disability.
ACTIV Library Parent Portal
This is a section of the ACTIV Library website. It provides a guide for parents to resources about intellectual disabilities.
Raising Children Network: The Australian Parenting Website
This website is Government-funded. It is designed for all parents, not only those whose children have health problems or disabilities. It includes a special section on disability and a special needs tab.
Healthy Start
This website is an iniative of the Australian Supported Parenting Consortium. Its mission is "to promote a positive and healthy start to life for young children of parents with learning difficulties".
Health Insite
This is an Australian Government website with consumer-oriented information about a wide range of health topics, including disability. It provides links to reliable information sources.
Medline Plus
Medline Plus is a website of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health. It provides clear information on health and disability topics and links to reliable sites elsewhere.
Bloorview Kids Rehab
Bloorview Kids Rehab in Canada is one of the largest children’s rehabilitation hospitals. Their vision is to create a world of possibility for kids with disability. Their ‘Life Skills Institute’ has put together a Checklist for ‘Growing up Ready’. There are three checklists for different age groups.
KidsHealth
KidsHealth is funded by the Nemours Foundation. Nemours operates a large number of health services for children in the United States. The website contains three sections: For parents, for teens and for kids. So this is a good place to show your children. They can start here to find out health information for themselves.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. This website gives an A-Z index of many health and disability issues, and provides clear, reliable information about health and disability.
Healthfinder
Healthfinder is good for health information and links to major organizations. It is the consumer website of the United States Government Department of Health and Human Services. Health (including disability) topics are listed alphabetically. It provides basic information about health topics and may be a useful way of orienting yourself to an unfamiliar area. It will also direct you to the websites of major organizations researching and servicing people with various disorders.
NHS Direct
The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom provides health information for consumers on a wide range of health topics, including some disabilities. Use the A-Z health encyclopaedia to search for a topic.
Intute
Intute is a consortium of seven universities in the United Kingdom. Staff at these universities hand-select relevant web resources in various disciplines. Four subject areas are provided: Science and Technology, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Health and Life Sciences. Most questions regarding disability are listed under the fourth area: Health and Life Sciences. Type in a disability or treatment, and Intute will generate a brief list of reliable websites that provide information about it.
Worldwide Online Reliable Advice to Patients and Individuals
WRAPIN searches several major search engines all at once: HONcode, Medline (PubMed), Medhunt, DrugFDA, Clinical Trials, Uro, Oeso, and HONnews. This saves you going to each one individually. It also allows searches in English, French, Spanish, and Cantonese.
WRAPIN may yield hundreds or even thousands of articles, but you can narrow down your search as you go. Immediately under the Query box, it will often suggest a breakdown of the area of your search (e.g., causes and risk factors, screening and diagnosis, complications, treatment, prevention).
WRAPIN also has another feature that is unusual and very useful, especially for some of the newer treatments that have little research evidence behind them. WRAPIN allows you to paste in any URL, and it will retrieve reliable health information on the topic of that website, allowing you to compare its information with established benchmarks.
Child Development and Rehabilitation
This website appears simple at first. But click on the items in the index. Each item will take you to a page of links to websites in various subject areas, relating to Child Development and Rehabilitation.
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