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Tag Archives: intellectual disabilities
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community July 2019
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is: I am a person with a disability and would like to be more physically active. What information and resources … Continue reading
Posted in Answer Queue, Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged #AnsweredQuestions, #ResearchInFocus, ABLEDATA, access, accessibility, accessible sports, adaptive sports, adults, assistive technology, AT, children, community participation, developmental disabilities, Disabilities, exercise, healthy lifestyles, inclusion, intellectual disabilities, minorities, mobility disabilities, MSKTC, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Projects, NIDILRR Research, obesity, participation, people with disabilities, physical disabilities, recreation, Research In Focus, social inclusion, wheelchair sport
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for February
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is: What treatments are available for people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD)? This edition of Answered Questions includes items that discuss … Continue reading
Posted in Publications, Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged aging with disabilities, Alzheimer's disase and therapy, Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimer's disease and disabilities, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, animal assisted therapy, Answered Questions, cognitive intervention therapy, dementia, intellectual disabilities, music therapy, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Research, occupational therapy, people with disabilities, pharmaceutical treatments, rehabilitation, Spanish, Spanish-language, therapy, treatments
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Fundación Coanil: Promoting the Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Coanil is a foundation with a national presence in Chile that promotes the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities by providing support services that contribute to improving their quality of life. Founded in 1974, Coanil began by creating residences and … Continue reading
What is Fragile X Syndrome?
According to MedlinePlus, Fragile X syndrome is the most common form of inherited developmental disability and is caused by a change to a specific gene that makes a protein needed for brain development. This change causes a person to make … Continue reading
Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month: See Me for Me
This month, the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities celebrates Developmental Disability Awareness Month, fostering conversations about inclusion and accessibility for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). These conversations encourage people to see and interact with individuals with … Continue reading
What is Diabetes?
According to the National Institute on Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Diabetes occurs when your blood sugar, also known as blood glucose, is too high. Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas that helps glucose from the … Continue reading
Working Side-By-Side – DDAwareness17 and DSWorks
March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, sponsored by the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD), the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD), and the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN). The theme for 2017 is Life Side By … Continue reading
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community – January 2017
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. NIDILRR Projects: The Community for All Project to Develop a Series of Six Online Toolkits to Improve Community Living and Participation for People … Continue reading
Posted in Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged advocacy, aging, aging with developmental disabilities, aging with IDD, aging with intellectual disabilities, community living, community participation, dementia, developmental disabilities, economic self-sufficiency, health advocacy guidelines, high school students, IDD, IEP meetings, intellectual disabilities, parents, preventing violence, self-advocacy, self-advocacy skills, self-determination, self-determination skills, sexual advocacy, strategies
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for November 2016
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
Posted in Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged aging, caregiver, caregiver stress, caregiving, cultural perspective, depression and caregiving, developmental disabilities, Disabilities, disability, education of caregivers, intellectual disabilities, NIDILRR, people with disabilities, research, SCI, Spanish, Spanish-language, technology
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