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Parents with Disabilities

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Women with disabilities are capable, loving parents. Parents with disabilities can also have special needs and concerns. Below are resources that can provide you with information on pregnancy, parenting, and legal, medical, and social services.

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Publications

1. Adaptive/Adaptable Parenting Products (Copyright © Parents with Disabilities Online) - This page describes products and solutions for making independent parenting more possible for people with disabilities.

   http://www.disabledparents.net/adaptive.html

2. A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities (Copyright © Hesperian Foundation) - This book is written for women with disabilities around the world. It contains chapters about understanding and taking care of your body, growing older with a disability, abuse, violence, self-defense, and much more.

   http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download_wwd.php

3. Parenting Concerns for the Mother with Epilepsy (Copyright © Epilepsy Foundation) - This fact sheet discusses safety during and after a pregnancy, breastfeeding safety, the best way to place a diaper on a baby, and how to keep the baby safe during a mother's seizures.

   http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/living/women/pregnancy/weiparenting.cfm

4. Parenting with a disability (Copyright © NCODH) - This publication discusses some of the difficulties parents with disabilities face, such as finding accessible parking while dropping off their children, accessibility at recreational activities outside the home, keeping up with errands and appointments, and more.

   http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/orchid/pages/parenting.cfm

5. Parents with Disabilities Online: Our Stories (Copyright © Parents with Disabilities Online) - This publication contains stories by parents with disabilities that discuss the joys of parenthood and some of the difficulties disabled parents face.

   http://disabledparents.net/ourstories.html

Organizations

1. National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities, OSEP, ED
2. Parents with Disabilities Online
3. Through the Looking Glass

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Content last updated May 15, 2008.