Living with Disability Conditions and Diseases Health

Having a disability means that you might not be able to do something just like everyone else your age. Living with that disability means enjoying your life and activities in your own way. Disabilities present challenges and difficulties. Life is how we deal with them.

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• SparkTop.org - Activity-based site for kids. Paint pictures, write stories and poems, and talk to other kids with difficulties.
  
• Child and Youth Health: Dyslexia - Coping With It - Tips for teens include how to help yourself, why exercise is important, getting support for school projects, and building self-esteem.
  
• Can Do Kids - Focus is on what kids can accomplish. Provides online games for geography, writing, an ability survey, dream sharing, and how to make the world a better place.
  
• Teens Living with Cancer: Brothers and Sisters - Stories from other brothers and sisters describing their experiences with a sick brother or sister.
  
• Diabetes.org: Just for Teens - Humorous article about how hormone changes, eating disorders, drugs, and alcohol affect blood sugar control. [PDF]
  
• Supporting Siblings - This booklet describes the common feelings experienced by young people when they have a brother or sister with a chronic illness or disability. Includes strategies that promote coping and resilience. [PDF]
  
• Kids Quest on Disability and Health - Explains what a disability is and answers common questions about living with one.
  
• Child and Youth Health: ADHD - How It Can Affect Teenagers - Tells how it affects school work, friendships, and relationships with siblings. Tips for managing this disorder, using medication, and feeling good.
  
• Young Minds: Mental Illness in Your Family - Explains what causes it, what can be done to help, and how to cope when it affects a parent, brother or sister. Includes quotes from other young people in this situation.
  
• When Meeting Friends with Disabilities - Information about what is okay to say or do when a friend has a disability.
  
• The Survival Guide for Kids with LD - Lists ten ways that kids with learning disabilities can make life easier for themselves at school. Includes quotes from affected children.
  
• The Invisible Ones - A place of support and communication for kids who have siblings with chronic or life-threatening illness.
  
• My Brother Has Asperger Syndrome - Explains one boy's experiences growing up with a sibling with a disability.
  
• Starbright World - Offers chronically ill teens a place to blog, chat, find old friends, and meet new friends throughout the United States and Canada.
  
• Bandaides and Blackboards: Teens - Share stories and poems, read teens tips to parents and teachers, and the good, the bad, and the ugly about having a chronic illness.
  
• Disability Social History Project - Presents short biographies of famous people who had a disabling mental or physical illness.
  
• SB-Teens - Discussion group for teens with spina bifida to exchange ideas, stories, or just chat. Siblings welcome.
  
• Child and Youth Health: Cancer - When Your Brother or Sister has Cancer - Explains feelings that many teens may have, how to be supportive of a sick sibling and helpful things to do.
  
• Seeing Disabilities from a Different Perspective - Fourth and fifth graders provide information on autism, blindness, cerebral palsy, and deafness. Includes causes, effects, and famous people who have suffered from these conditions.
  
• Child and Youth Health: Cancer - Living With It - Discusses different feelings that happen, talking about the disease, dealing with other people and how life changes.
  
• Child and Youth Health: Living With a Disability - Tells what it is, your rights, living with family and friends, and dealing with teasing and bullying. Section for brothers and sisters.
  
• Family Matters: Getting Along with Your Brothers and Sisters - Three tips to help kids and teens talk to siblings about serious illnesses.
  
• 2bMe - Offers practical and emotional advice for teens living with cancer. Includes information on how to care for your skin, hair loss, diet, and coping socially.
  
• Communicating With and About People with Disabilities - Explains why using the right language is important, and gives a list of phrases to use, as well as terms which are not recommended.
  
• National Association of Blind Students - Offers information for blind high school and college students. Includes state divisions, national and state scholarships, newsletter, listserv message board, and links to resources. [Listserv requires free registration.]
  
• Diabetes.org: Your Parents and Your Diabetes - Humorous article about why parents ask so many questions, how diabetes affects the whole family, and what to do to keep things smooth. [PDF]
  
• Questions Kids Ask About Blindness - Provides answers to the most common questions asked by both blind and sighted children about how affected people manage with daily life.
  
• Listen to Our Stories - Offers a collection of stories, poems, pictures, and songs about and by young people with disabilities ages 5 to 25. Includes index of disabilities and additional resources.
  
  

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