Personal Issues

• Integrating a Positive Self Concept
• Clothing
• Shopping
• Personal Hygiene
• Transfers
• Personal Care Attendants
• Sexuality
• Link to Aids for Activities of Daily Living Discussion

Integrating a Positive Self Concept

• Accomplishments 'n Achievements Archives - poetry, stories, visual arts, etc.
• Beehive - a virtual tour of the garden, garden photo's of plants, wildlife, poetry, art, words of inspiration, etc.
• B. J. Davis - schedule of B.J. Davis out of the box concert tour.
• A Celebration of Wheels - a salute to the contemporary wheelchair and some active wheelchair users who lead full and fulfilling lives.
• Consequential Ideas- greeting card and T-shirt designs for able bodied and disabled persons alike.
• Crooked Rainbows - is a gift and greeting card company that features kids and adults with disabilities doing everday, wonderful, inspirational things.
• Disability is... from a speech by Alan Bergman.
• Disability is Natural - Welcome to a new way of thinking. A news letter, a store and a book.
• Disability Resource - packets of postcards advertising products and services.
• The Disability Grapevine - a free, daily on-line newspaper focused on disability issues.
• "Dizabled" starring Leeder O. Men - a weekly comic strip.
• Facts About Disability and "Quality of Life" - Carol Gill, April , 1999.
• Historical Overview of Disability Policy - Nancy Murray, May 2, 2003.
• Inbox Robot - disabilities news and latest information.
• Independent Living Library - click on "library"; key documents on independent living.
• Life on Wheels - a new book by Gary Karp.
• Paralinks - an electronic magazine for people with spinal cord injury.
• Pip Squeakers - baby and toddler shoes that motivates while enhancing auditory skills.
• The Self-Help Sourcebook - for information on finding support organizations related to disability. Do a search at the bottom of the page on the term "disability."
• World Association of People with Disabilities - for people who are alive, involved and effective in their every day lives!

Clothing

• ADA regulations on Dressing and Fitting Rooms
• Characteristics of clothes for people with disabilities - Mississippi State Extension Service.
• Choosing the glove that fits - November 1997, Paraplegia News.
• The fashion game - September 1998, Paraplegia News.
• Tips on Adaptive Clothing - written by Pam Clifton.
• Links to companies that sell adapted clothing.

Shopping

• Link to every catalog company
• Lapshopper - wheelchair attachment you can attach your store basket.

Personal Hygiene

• Living Well: The big bad bowels - October 1998, Paraplegia News.
• Colostomies: the good, the bad, and the ugly - April 1999, Paraplegia News.
• Adaptive Equipment - an Illustrated Guide from the RehabNET website.
• Links to companies that sell personal and hygiene products.

Transfers

• Caregiver-Information - guidelines for transferring with or without assistance.
• Duke Occupational & Environmental Safety Office - a resource on lifting, rolling, and transferring patients.
• Rand-Scot Incorporated - EasyPivot patient life with a 3-minute movie.
• Stroke Help - a 30 minute video designed to teach safe and therapeutic tranfers in and out of a wheelchair. One video is designed for families and another for therapists.
• Transfers from wheelchairs to other sitting surfaces - a resource from NE Rehabilitation Health Network.
• Wheelchair transfers in the dental office - a resource on Crest Dental Resource Net.
• Links to companies that sell transfer devices.

Personal Care Attendants

• World Institute on Disability - Report on Personal Assistance Services (PAS) and a statewide survey of PAS services.
• Quest for the Best: Finding and Managing Home Care Attendants - July 1998, Paraplegia News.
• Recruiting a personal assistant - a resource from Gateshead in Glasgow, Scotland.
• Personal Assistance Exchange - at the Independent Living Institute.
• Personal Care Attendants - A Practical Guide to Finding, Hiring and Keeping Personal Care Attendants
  • National Multiple Sclerosis Society - InsideMS Magazine - a review of the book " Avoiding Attendats from Hell: A practical guide to finding, hiring and keeping personal care attendants.

Sexuality

• Let's Talk About It - July 1998, Paraplegia News.
• Sexuality & SCI: Viagra frenzy - August 1998, Paraplegia News.
• Sexuality and SCI: Update on Having Kids - February 1999, Paraplegia News.
• Match.Com - online match-making
• Speaking of sex: Myths and misconceptions - an article in Quest, the publication of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
• Society for Human Sexuality

Last Updated: 3-2-2006