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Old 11-21-2008, 10:08 AM   #1
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On-line resources for Women with Disabilities

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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Old 11-21-2008, 10:10 AM   #2
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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

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Old 11-21-2008, 08:54 PM   #3
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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/

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Old 11-21-2008, 08:56 PM   #4
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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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Old 11-21-2008, 08:57 PM   #5
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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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Old 11-21-2008, 08:59 PM   #6
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DAWN-Canada

This is an excellent Canadian site for women with disabilities:

http://www.dawncanada.net/

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Old 11-21-2008, 09:00 PM   #7
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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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Old 11-21-2008, 09:02 PM   #8
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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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Old 11-23-2008, 07:56 PM   #9
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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

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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
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