Resources
Alberta Health Services
– Provides Health Care to Albertans
www.albertahealthservices.ca
Alberta Health Services Office of the Public Guardian
– Decision Making Mechanisms for those Who are Unable to Themselves
humanservices.alberta.ca/guardianship-trusteeship/office-public-guardian.html
Alberta Human Services Office of the Public Trustee
– Appointed by the Government of Alberta to Protect the Interests of Vulnerable Albertans
http://humanservices.alberta.ca/guardianship-trusteeship/office-of-the-public-trustee.html
Alberta Human Services Persons with Developmental Disabilities
– Pays for Staff to Help Albertans With Developmental Disabilities
http://humanservices.alberta.ca/disability-services/pdd.html
Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped
– Financial and Health Related Assistance to Eligible Adults
http://humanservices.alberta.ca/disability-services/aish.html
Canada Pension Plan (CPP)
– Build a Stable Pension for Retirement
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/isp/cpp/cpptoc.shtml
Center for Addiction and Mental Health
– Continuing Professional Education Courses
http://www.camh.ca/en/education/continuing-education/Continuing-professional-education/Pages/default.aspx
What is an Health Care Aide?
– Alberta Learning Information Service Video on what a Health Care Aide is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKeSQSwVtYc
Alberta Education: Students with Behavioral Disabilities
– Facilitates Programming for Students with Special Needs
http://education.alberta.ca/media/511687/ecep_behaviour_disabilities.pdf
Autism
– A mental condition, present from early childhood, characterized by great difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts.
http://www.autismcanada.org/
Challenging/ Responsive Behaviors
– Any behavior exhibited by someone with dementia, mental illness, addictions, brain injury, developmental disabilities and other neurological conditions that is a reaction to something important in their environment.
http://www.bsa.ualberta.ca/home
Chronic Illness
– These diseases develop slowly, are long lasting and are often progressive and incurable.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/cd-mc/
Dementia
– A serious loss in cognitive ability beyond what would be expected from normal aging. This resource talks about how to improve communication with those with dementia.
http://www.bupa.co.uk/jahia/webdav/site/bupacouk/shared/Documents/PDFs/care-homes/general/talking-toolkit.pdf
Hearing Loss and Deafness
– The partial or total inability to hear.
http://www.thfc.ca/
Intellectual Disability
– A disability that significantly affects one’s ability to learn and use information.
http://children.webmd.com/intellectual-disability-mental-retardation
Learning Disability
– A disability that affects one’s ability to interpret information.
http://www.ldaa.net/
Memory Loss
– Occasional to frequent loss of short or long term memory.
http://www.webmd.com/brain/memory-loss
Mental Illness
– Different sets of symptoms that affect the way we think, learn and behave.
http://www.cmha.ca/
National Institute of Mental Health
– A list of publications on various mental disorders.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/easy-to-read.shtml
Physical Disability
– Any disability that impairs movement or mobility.
http://www.openroad.net.au/access/dakit/physical/phhandout2.htm
Speech and Language Disability
– Difficulties in producing sounds, understanding others, or sharing thoughts and feelings.
http://www.asha.org/
Vision Loss and Blindness
– The partial or total inability to see.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/visionimpairmentandblindness.html
Alberta Association for Community Living
– Advocates on Behalf of Children and Adults with Developmental Disabilities
http://www.aacl.org/
Alberta Council of Disability Services
– Serves Community Based Service Providers to Support those with Disabilities
http://acds.ca/
Alberta Disability Workers Association
– Actively Moving Disability Services Forward in Alberta
http://www.adwa.ca/
Behavioral Supports Alberta
– Supports those Exhibiting Challenging Response Behaviors. A Web Portal for Information Exchange, Networking, Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer
http://www.bsa.ualberta.ca/
http://www.bsa.ualberta.ca/resources
Canadian Center on Disability Studies
– Assists Community Based Disability Research Initiatives
http://disabilitystudies.ca/
Canadian Dementia Resource and Knowledge Exchange
– Attempts to Improve the Lives of those Stricken with Dementia
http://www.dementiaknowledgebroker.ca/
The Institute for Applied Behavior Analysis
– Person-Centered Services to Support People with Challenging Behavior
http://www.iaba.com/
Vecova
– Leading Disability Research and Service Agency
http://vecova.ca/
Blogs
– Blogs Addressing Disability in the Society and Education
http://davehingsburger.blogspot.ca/
http://dspeducationalresources.blogspot.ca/
http://blog.thearc.org/2013/05/16/talking-about-inclusive-education/