Let's make this a sticky topic. Please use this as a place to list and describe good resources for women with disabilities, esp. mobility disabilities such as SCI or MS.
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Table Manners: A guide to the gyn exam for women with disabilities
This was originally developed by Planned Parenthood of San Francisco. Now it is available on-line. This is a good little booklet to download, print and share with your primary care or gyn physician or nurse practitioner:
http://www.bhawd.org/sitefiles/TblMrs/cover.html
(KLD)The SCI-Nurses are advanced practice nurses specializing in SCI/D care. They are available to answer questions, provide education, and make suggestions which you should always discuss with your physician/primary health care provider before implementing. Medical diagnosis is not provided, nor do the SCI-Nurses provide nursing or medical care through their responses on the CareCure forums. -
Center for Research on Women with Disabilities
CROWD (Center for Research on Women with Disabilities) is an invaluabe site with lots of information that is kept updated on a consistent basis. It is sponsored by the Baylor College of Medicine:
http://www.bcm.edu/crowd/
(KLD)The SCI-Nurses are advanced practice nurses specializing in SCI/D care. They are available to answer questions, provide education, and make suggestions which you should always discuss with your physician/primary health care provider before implementing. Medical diagnosis is not provided, nor do the SCI-Nurses provide nursing or medical care through their responses on the CareCure forums.Comment
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Disabled Women on the Web
This is another good resource site with lots of information and links to other resources for women: http://www.disabilityhistory.org/dwa/
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Federal Government site for women with disabilities
This is part of the WomensHealth.gov website:
http://www.4woman.gov/wwd/
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DAWN-Canada
This is an excellent Canadian site for women with disabilities:
http://www.dawncanada.net/
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Women with Disabilities-Australia
This site from down under has excellent resources and links for women with disabilities from all over the world:
http://www.wwda.org.au/
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Sick Chicks and Twisted Sisters
This somewhat irreverent site has poetry, discussion forums, links, articles and lot of good info for women with disabilitie of a wide variety:
http://sickchicks.homestead.com/
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Wow! Thanks KLD! I'll check all of them out.
Cool having everything for women right here.
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Mobilewomen.org
www.mobilewomen.org
An online magazine created by women in wheelchairs who had difficulty finding answers to their health, fashion, and other questions. Their mission is to bring together current and accurate information on issues of interest to their community and to enable people to share and learn from each otherComment
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This is in fact what triggered our womens only forum. Thanks wendy and all.Originally posted by WLC View PostT7-8 since Feb 2005Comment
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Good Resources for Women with Disabilities
I ran across this website and thought it worth sharing with the women of CareCure.
http://www.bcm.edu/crowd/
The Center for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD) at Baylor College of Medicine welcomes you to our website and information resource. Our mission is to promote, develop, and disseminate information to improve the health and expand the life choices of women with disabilities. We invite you to browse the results of research we have conducted on the following topics:
Sexuality
Reproductive health
Self-esteem
Stress management
Depression self-management
Violence against women with disabilities
Health promotion
Access to health care
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Update
Unfortunately the Table Manners resource cited above is no longer valid. Hoping to find it someplace else and will post then.
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