On-line resources for Women with Disabilities

[SCI-Nurse]

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.

(KLD)

[SCI-Nurse]

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)

[SCI-Nurse]

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)

[SCI-Nurse]

This is another good resource site with lots of information and links to other resources for women: http://www.disabilityhistory.org/dwa/

(KLD)

[SCI-Nurse]

This is part of the WomensHealth.gov website:
http://www.4woman.gov/wwd/

(KLD)

[SCI-Nurse]

This is an excellent Canadian site for women with disabilities:

http://www.dawncanada.net/

(KLD)

[SCI-Nurse]

This site from down under has excellent resources and links for women with disabilities from all over the world:

http://www.wwda.org.au/

(KLD)

[SCI-Nurse]

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/

(KLD)

[Mona~on~wheels]

Wow! Thanks KLD! I'll check all of them out.
Cool having everything for women right here. :)

[WLC]

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 other

[Mona~on~wheels]

www.mobilewomen.org (http://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 other

Thanks I'll ck it out! :) Mona

[sjean423]

www.mobilewomen.org (http://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 other

This is in fact what triggered our womens only forum. Thanks wendy and all.

[WLC]

no problem!

[cheesecake]

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
Secondary conditions

[SCI-Nurse]

Unfortunately the Table Manners resource cited above is no longer valid. Hoping to find it someplace else and will post then.

(KLD)