Disability Specific Information
Find information about specific disabilities
Physical and Mobility Disabilities
- Helpful Tips for Accommodating People with Disabilities
- Tipsheet for accommodating people with disabilities - includes physical disabilities, visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and learning disabilities.
- Helpful Tips for Accommodating People with Disabilities
- Tipsheet for accommodating people with disabilities - includes physical disabilities, visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and learning disabilities.
- Descriptions of Different Disabilities
- Provides common definitions of disability and gives descriptions of specific kinds of disabilties.
- Descriptions of Different Disabilities
- Provides common definitions of disability and gives descriptions of specific kinds of disabilties.
Blindness and Visual Impairment
- Technology and Disability: a global glimpse of the future (World Institute on Disability, 2005) (pdf)
- Several specialists were commissioned by WID to prepare overviews of key technology topics including universal design, accessible information technology for the blind and those with print disabilities, and international reports on advocacy, research and trends.
- Helping Children Who Are Blind (Hesperian Foundation, 2000) (pdf)
- This book contains background information on how to help blind children learn. It also contains information to help caregivers support one another, to help parents learn from one another, and to increase the reader’s awareness of blindness and vision problems.
- Needs, Barriers, and Concerns Regarding HIV Prevention among South Africans with Visual Impairments: A Key Informant Study (Philander and Swartz, American Foundation for the Blind, 2006) (pdf)
- This study gauged the participants' views on areas that need to be included in the design of an HIV/AIDS prevention program for people who are visually impaired.
- HIV/AIDS "Train The Trainers" Manual (African Union of the Blind, 2007) (pdf)
- The manual was developed to be used as a guide during awareness and training seminars for blind and partially sighted persons in Africa.
- Zambia: The challenge of informing blind and deaf clients (Christine W. Kanyengo for Exchange on HIV/AIDS, sexuality and gender magazine, 2009) (pdf)
- This article highlights the information services on HIV/AIDS the Zambia National Library and Cultural Centre for the Blind has for the disabled, specifically those with sight and hearing challenges.
- Helpful Tips for Accommodating People with Disabilities
- Tipsheet for accommodating people with disabilities - includes physical disabilities, visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and learning disabilities.
- Helpful Tips for Accommodating People with Disabilities
- Tipsheet for accommodating people with disabilities - includes physical disabilities, visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and learning disabilities.
- Descriptions of Different Disabilities
- Provides common definitions of disability and gives descriptions of specific kinds of disabilties.
- Descriptions of Different Disabilities
- Provides common definitions of disability and gives descriptions of specific kinds of disabilties.
- Alternative Formats for People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired
- This tipsheet offers guidelines on alternative formats, information on equipment, training and skills requirements, and contact information for requesting additional resources.
- Alternative Formats for People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired
- This tipsheet offers guidelines on alternative formats, information on equipment, training and skills requirements, and contact information for requesting additional resources.
- Alternative Formats for People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired
Deafness and Hard of Hearing
- Helping Children Who Are Deaf (Hesperian Foundation, 2004) (pdf)
- This book offers information, explanations, suggestions, examples, and ideas to help parents and others who work with children who are deaf respond to their needs in flexible and creative ways. Topics covered include guidelines for teaching language, listening skills, learning to use sign and spoken language, and preventing child sexual abuse.
- HIV/AIDS and Disability: Differences in HIV/AIDS Knowledge between Deaf and Hearing people in Nigeria (N.E. Groce, A. K. Yousafzai & F. Van der Maas for the Disability and Rehabilitation Journal, 2006) (pdf)
- This study compares the HIV knowledge among deaf and hearing young people in order to identify whether there are significant differences in the amount of AIDS information reaching each population
- Zambia: The challenge of informing blind and deaf clients (Christine W. Kanyengo for Exchange on HIV/AIDS, sexuality and gender magazine, 2009) (pdf)
- This article highlights the information services on HIV/AIDS the Zambia National Library and Cultural Centre for the Blind has for the disabled, specifically those with sight and hearing challenges.
- Helpful Tips for Accommodating People with Disabilities
- Tipsheet for accommodating people with disabilities - includes physical disabilities, visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and learning disabilities.
- Helpful Tips for Accommodating People with Disabilities
- Tipsheet for accommodating people with disabilities - includes physical disabilities, visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and learning disabilities.
- Descriptions of Different Disabilities
- Provides common definitions of disability and gives descriptions of specific kinds of disabilties.
- Descriptions of Different Disabilities
- Provides common definitions of disability and gives descriptions of specific kinds of disabilties.
- Accessible Communication for People Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- Accessible Communication for People Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Non-apparent disabilities
- Helpful Tips for Accommodating People with Disabilities
- Tipsheet for accommodating people with disabilities - includes physical disabilities, visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and learning disabilities.
- Helpful Tips for Accommodating People with Disabilities
- Tipsheet for accommodating people with disabilities - includes physical disabilities, visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and learning disabilities.
- Descriptions of Different Disabilities
- Provides common definitions of disability and gives descriptions of specific kinds of disabilties.
- Descriptions of Different Disabilities
- Provides common definitions of disability and gives descriptions of specific kinds of disabilties.
- Mental Health and Human Rights Projects in Peru: Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI)
- MDRI offers an on-line course for journalists on mental health and human rights
