Resources:  Disability Links

• Aging People with Developmental Disabilities
• American Dietetic Association
  Nutrition in comprehensive program planning for persons with developmental disabilities -- Position of ADA
• AARP
  Caregiving for Adult Children with Developmental Disabilities and Their Families
• ARC of the United States
  Aging with Developmental Disabilities: Women's Health Issues
• Association of University Centers on Disabilities
• California Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities Center (MHDDC)
  An information and training center dedicated to the mental health needs of people with developmental disabilities
• Center for Development and Disability
• Conill Institute for Chronic Illness
  offers a variety of programs and services that cover the spectrum of chronic illness and disability
• Deep Search Engine for Broad Information on Disability
• Developmental Disabilities
• Developmental Disabilities and Alzheimer's Disease...What You Should Know
  Developed by the Workgroup on Alzheimer's Disease and Developmental Disabilities and the New York Caregiver Assistance Project in Aging and Developmental Disabilities (New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities) and published by The Arc of the United States.
• EDLAW
• Family Village from the Waisman Center 
  a University Affiliated Program at the Univ. of Wisconsin. Choices include school, great source for IEP information; Church - religious resources for  families; Health and Disability - articles, Internet directories.
• Healthy Times:  A Behavioral Newsletter for Physicians, Nurses and Caregivers of People with Developmental Disabilities.  
  Article: Behavioral and Psychiatric Phenotype of Genetic Syndromes:  Part I
• Institute for Family-Centered Care
  Search Engines, directories and databases -already set up to help you connect to other sites.
• JPDas Developmental Disabilities Centre
  Multitude of Developmental Disabilities, Inclusion Resources and Violence and Abuse Prevention Information Sites
• Larry Bregman, M.D. Educational Series 
  A Conference For Adults with Developmental Disabilities and their Families:  Disabilities Chat
• Message from the Surgeon General
• National Down Syndrome Society
  A comprehensive, on-line information source about Down syndrome.
• National Institutes of Health
• Social Supports
• Support Groups