LibGuides: Healthcare for All: Disability: Clinical Resources

Clinical Resources

Quickly provide patients with accurate and easy-to-understand custom illustrations to help them understand medical conditions and procedures.

Simply Sayin'

Mobile resource that help health care professionals facilitate clear conversations between healthcare provider, child, and family. Glossary terms and Preps provide developmentally appropriate explanations for children, and are available in Spanish. App reinforces teach-back techniques to ask both child and parent (only available in English); has pictures that show medical equipment used for procedure; and drawing boards containing an image the healthcare provider or child can draw on.

Three Things Clinicians Should Know About Disability [AMA Journal of Ethics] Dec 2018
The historical relationship between health care professionals and people with disabilities is fraught, a fact all the more troubling in light of the distinctive roles clinicians play in both establishing and responding to that which is considered normal or abnormal by society at large. Those who wish to improve their clinical practice might struggle, however, to keep up with developments across numerous disability communities as well as the ever-growing body of disability studies scholarship. To assist with this goal, I offer an overview of recent disability theory, outline a set of responsibilities clinicians have to disability communities, and provide recommendations for clinicians who hope to justly treat patients with disabilities and improve their care and health outcomes.

Building Healthy Inclusive Communities [NCHPAD]
The National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability's (NCHPAD) page for healthcare providers.

Last updated on Apr 3, 2024 12:40 PM