BrainTalk Communities: Teens Helping Teens
Online support group and message forum for teens with neurological disorders.
Famous People with Disabilities
A long list of well-known names is grouped according to different conditions. Includes historical figures and present day celebrities.
Teens with Chronic Diseases
Support group for teens between the ages of 12-21. Open to anyone with any chronic disease including cancer.
SB-Teens
Discussion group for teens with spina bifida to exchange ideas, stories, or just chat. Siblings welcome.
Novita Kids
Made specially for kids with physical disabilities, and features things to do, places to visit, and lots to learn about.
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.
Novita Teens
Designed specifically for teenagers with physical disabilities, and featuring resources, information, activities and a forum.
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.
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.
Your Shout
Made by and for adolescents with a brother or sister having a disability or chronic illness. Includes interviews, reviews, and submitted stories and poems.
Club BraveKids
For those with a chronic illness or disability. Has message boards, games, a weekly poll, and interviews with athletes. [Free Shockwave plugin for games]
Kids Quest on Disability and Health
Explains what a disability is and answers common questions about living with one.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
Diabetes.org: Just for Teens
Humorous article about how hormone changes, eating disorders, drugs, and alcohol affect blood sugar control.
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.
Disability Central: @ctivTeen
Online community where teens with disabilities can socialize, educate one another and just have fun together. Includes games, articles, and resources.
Beyond All Barriers
The e-zine is written by and for teens with disabilities, and includes personal stories, interviews, advice, and submitted articles and poems.
Disability Social History Project
Presents short biographies of famous people who had a disabling mental or physical illness.
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.
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.
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.
Questions From Kids About Blindness
Provides answers to the most common questions asked by both blind and sighted children about how affected people manage with daily life.
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.]
Famous People with Disabilities
Common conditions are listed with the names of well known people and historical figures who had these illnesses.
SparkTop.org
Activity-based site for kids. Paint pictures, write stories and poems, and talk to other kids with difficulties.
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.
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.
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