Living with Disability

Teens with Chronic Diseases - Support group for teens between the ages of 12-21. Open to anyone with any chronic disease including cancer.
http://groups.msn.com/teenswithchronicdiseases

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.
http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetails.aspx?p=243&np=293&id=2153

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.
http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetails.aspx?p=243&np=292&id=2207

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. [PDF]
http://www.diabetes.org/uedocuments/YourParentsYourDiabetes.pdf

Kids Quest on Disability and Health - Explains what a disability is and answers common questions about living with one.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/kids/

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.
http://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/fact/comucate.htm

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.
http://library.thinkquest.org/5852/

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.]
http://www.nfb.org/nfb/NABS.asp?SnID=2082611233

Diabetes.org: Just for Teens - Humorous article about how hormone changes, eating disorders, drugs, and alcohol affect blood sugar control. [PDF]
http://www.diabetes.org/uedocuments/JustforTeens.pdf

Questions Kids Ask About Blindness - Provides answers to the most common questions asked by both blind and sighted children about how affected people manage with daily life.
http://www.nfb.org/nfb/NOPBC_Questions_Kids_Ask.asp?SnID=53512754

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.
http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetails.aspx?p=243&np=293&id=2201

SB-Teens - Discussion group for teens with spina bifida to exchange ideas, stories, or just chat. Siblings welcome.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/sb-teens/

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.
http://www.listentoourstories.com/

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.
http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetails.aspx?p=243&np=292&id=2336

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. [PDF]
http://www.acd.org.au/siblings/content/Supporting_Siblings.pdf

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.
http://www.ldonline.org/article.php?id=354&loc=65

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.
http://www.ucando.org/kids.html

Bandaides and Blackboards: Teens - Share stories and poems, read teens tips to parents and teachers, and the good, the bad, and the ugly about having a chronic illness.
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/faculty/jfleitas/bandaides/contteen.html

The Invisible Ones - A place of support and communication for kids who have siblings with chronic or life-threatening illness.
http://theinvisibleones.homestead.com/

Disability Social History Project - Presents short biographies of famous people who had a disabling mental or physical illness.
http://www.disabilityhistory.org/people.html

When Meeting Friends with Disabilities - Information about what is okay to say or do when a friend has a disability.
http://www.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=ntl_friends_hints

SparkTop.org - Activity-based site for kids. Paint pictures, write stories and poems, and talk to other kids with difficulties.
http://www.sparktop.org

Starbright World - Offers chronically ill teens a place to blog, chat, find old friends, and meet new friends throughout the United States and Canada.
http://www.starbrightworld.org/

Family Matters: Getting Along with Your Brothers and Sisters - Three tips to help kids and teens talk to siblings about serious illnesses.
http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/bodywise/disability/matters/sibs.htm

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.
http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetails.aspx?p=243&np=292&id=2208

My Brother Has Asperger Syndrome - Explains one boy's experiences growing up with a sibling with a disability.
http://www.aspergersbook.blogspot.com

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.
http://www.2bme.org/

Teens Living with Cancer: Brothers and Sisters - Stories from other brothers and sisters describing their experiences with a sick brother or sister.
http://www.teenslivingwithcancer.org/familyfriends/brothersister/