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Disability refers to the social effects of physical or mental impairment. This definition, known as the 'social model' of disability, makes a clear distinction between the impairment itself (such as a medical condition that makes a person unable to walk or unable to sit) and the disabling effects of society in relation to that impairment. As Frank Bowe put it in Handicapping America (1978), the real issue is the societal response to disability: if a community allows physical, architectural, transportation, and other barriers to remain in place, society is creating handicaps that oppress individuals with disabilities. If, on the other hand, a community removes those barriers, persons with disabilities can function at much higher levels. In simple terms, it is not the inability to walk or inability to sit that prevents a person entering a building unaided but the existence of stairs or the lack of benches to lie down, that are inaccessible to a wheelchair-user or a person with sitting disability. In other words, 'disability' is socially constructed. The 'social model' is often contrasted with the 'medical model' which sees 'disability' as synonymous with 'impairment.'
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RT @getbuzzed: Part II Community Living Leaders story artist Caroline Matte life as person with intellectual disability http://is.gd/5n5lK
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Disability Dreams Group Demystifies the Financial Landscape for Families Living With Disabilities. http://ow.ly/GigD
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Disability Dreams Group Demystifies the Financial Landscape for Families Living With Disabilities. http://ow.ly/GigD
2bMe - Offers practical and emotional advice for teens living with cancer. Includes information on how to care for your skin, hair loss, diet, and coping socially.
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Beyond All Barriers - The e-zine is written by and for teens with disabilities, and includes personal stories, interviews, advice, and submitted articles and poems.
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BrainTalk Communities: Teens Helping Teens - Online support group and message forum for teens with neurological disorders.
Can Do Kids - Focus is on what kids can accomplish. Provides online games for geography, writing, an ability survey, dream sharing, and how to make the world a better place.
Child and Youth Health: ADHD - How It Can Affect Teenagers - Tells how it affects school work, friendships, and relationships with siblings. Tips for managing this disorder, using medication, and feeling good.
Child and Youth Health: Cancer - Living With It - Discusses different feelings that happen, talking about the disease, dealing with other people and how life changes.
Child and Youth Health: Cancer - When Your Brother or Sister has Cancer - Explains feelings that many teens may have, how to be supportive of a sick sibling and helpful things to do.
Child and Youth Health: Dyslexia - Coping With It - Tips for teens include how to help yourself, why exercise is important, getting support for school projects, and building self-esteem.
Child and Youth Health: Living With a Disability - Tells what it is, your rights, living with family and friends, and dealing with teasing and bullying. Section for brothers and sisters.
Club BraveKids - For those with a chronic illness or disability. Has message boards, games, a weekly poll, and interviews with athletes. [Free Shockwave plugin for games]
Meta Description: [ Resources for children with chronic, life threatening illnesses or special needs, their families, and health care providers. ]
Communicating With and About People with Disabilities - Explains why using the right language is important, and gives a list of phrases to use, as well as terms which are not recommended.
Diabetes.org: Just for Teens - Humorous article about how hormone changes, eating disorders, drugs, and alcohol affect blood sugar control.
Diabetes.org: Your Parents and Your Diabetes - Humorous article about why parents ask so many questions, how diabetes affects the whole family, and what to do to keep things smooth.
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Disability Central: @ctivTeen - Online community where teens with disabilities can socialize, educate one another and just have fun together. Includes games, articles, and resources.
Disability Social History Project - Presents short biographies of famous people who had a disabling mental or physical illness.
Famous People with Disabilities - A long list of well-known names is grouped according to different conditions. Includes historical figures and present day celebrities.
Famous People with Disabilities - Common conditions are listed with the names of well known people and historical figures who had these illnesses.
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Kids Quest on Disability and Health - Explains what a disability is and answers common questions about living with one.
Meta Description: [ Kids Quest is a web-base curriculum designed to give kids in grades 4-6 an understanding of some of the issues related to disability and health. This program is part of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities ]
Listen to Our Stories - Offers a collection of stories, poems, pictures, and songs about and by young people with disabilities ages 5 to 25. Includes index of disabilities and additional resources.
Meta Description: [ Children with disabilities resource: Listen to Our Stories: Words, Pictures, and Songs by Young People with Disabilities ]
National Association of Blind Students - Offers information for blind high school and college students. Includes state divisions, national and state scholarships, newsletter, listserv message board, and links to resources. [Listserv requires free registration.]
Novita Kids - Made specially for kids with physical disabilities, and features things to do, places to visit, and lots to learn about.
Meta Description: [ Novita Kids - a site about and for kids with physical disabilities. Lots of things to do, places to go, things to learn about! ]
Novita Teens - Designed specifically for teenagers with physical disabilities, and featuring resources, information, activities and a forum.
Meta Description: [ Novita Teens- a site about and for teenagers with physical disabilities. Lots of things to do, places to go, things to learn about! ]
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Questions From Kids About Blindness - Provides answers to the most common questions asked by both blind and sighted children about how affected people manage with daily life.
Meta Description: [ Questions Kids Ask About Blindness ]
SB-Teens - Discussion group for teens with spina bifida to exchange ideas, stories, or just chat. Siblings welcome.
Meta Description: [ SB-TEENS: SB-TEENS ]
Seeing Disabilities from a Different Perspective - Fourth and fifth graders provide information on autism, blindness, cerebral palsy, and deafness. Includes causes, effects, and famous people who have suffered from these conditions.
SparkTop.org - Activity-based site for kids. Paint pictures, write stories and poems, and talk to other kids with difficulties.
Supporting Siblings - This booklet describes the common feelings experienced by young people when they have a brother or sister with a chronic illness or disability. Includes strategies that promote coping and resilience.
Teens with Chronic Diseases - Support group for teens between the ages of 12-21. Open to anyone with any chronic disease including cancer.
Meta Description: [ This is a group for teenagers living each day with chronic diseases. It is a place to come together and discuss issues concerning medical care, as well as issues that every teen faces, and how to better handle going through them with an extra challenge. ]
The Survival Guide for Kids with LD - Lists ten ways that kids with learning disabilities can make life easier for themselves at school. Includes quotes from affected children.
Meta Description: [ LD OnLine is the leading website on learning disabilities, learning disorders and differences. Parents and teachers of learning disabled children will find authoritative guidance on attention deficit disorder, ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, reading difficulties, speech a... ]
When Meeting Friends with Disabilities - Information about what is okay to say or do when a friend has a disability.
Young Minds: Mental Illness in Your Family - Explains what causes it, what can be done to help, and how to cope when it affects a parent, brother or sister. Includes quotes from other young people in this situation.
Your Shout - Made by and for adolescents with a brother or sister having a disability or chronic illness. Includes interviews, reviews, and submitted stories and poems.
Meta Description: [ Your Shout, Siblings with Disabilities, Support information for disabilities ]
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