Other Situations/ Diseases/ Disorders

Adoption

• AFTER Adoption Help in California
• National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
• Voices From The Borderlands
• Foster and Adoptive Parenting
• Foster Parent Community
  Our Experience As Foster Parents, by Darla E. Ellinger
• Foster Parent Community
  This site is for the purpose of sharing information with foster and adoptive families, prospective foster and adoptive families and anyone involved in the field of working with at-risk children
• Comeunity Support for Unique Families - adoption and children's disabilities

Attachment

• Reactive Attachment Disorder - It's Time To Understand
• Reactive Attachment Disorder - It's Time To Understand
• Attachment Research Center Homepage
• Reactive Attachment Disorder

Depression

• Childhood Depression Awareness Day
• Childhood Depression

Down Syndrome

• Down Syndrome Research Foundation (D.S.R.F.)
• Down Syndrome Quarterly - 1999 Revision Health Care Guidelines
• Growth Charts for Children with Down Syndrome
• Down Syndrome

FAS/FAE

• Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit
  is a research unit dedicated to the prevention, intervention and treatment of FAS and FAE.
  They "conduct research on fetal alcohol and drug effects across the life span,
  disseminate information on fetal alcohol and drug effects,
  provide consultation for persons of any age thought to be affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol,
  and provide training in human behavioral teratology."
• National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Connecticut Clearinghouse Fact Sheet
• CCSA - FAS FAE
  (Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse)
• Educating children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• FAS Community Resource Center

HIV

• HIV Transmission Fact sheet

Oncology

• Malignant Brain Tumors & Neurooncology Resources at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard
• BrainNet - Disorders: Brain Tumors

Prenatal drug abuse

• NIDA Survey Provides First National Data on Drug Use During Pregnancy - Connecticut Clearinghouse Fact Sheet
• Fact Sheet - HEROIN
• methamphetamine chemicals to manufacture

Sensory Integration

• Sensory Integration Resource Center Home Page
• Sensory Integrative Dysfunction in Young Children
• Sensorimotor - New Visions
• BBB Autism - Sensory Integration
• Wilbarger Brushing Protocol
• Sensory Integration Articles
  including an interview with Carol Kranowitz, author of the popular book The Out of Sync Child
• HenryOT
  Diana A. Henry, MS, OTR/L and Henry OT Services, Inc. offer school based and individual occupational therapy services. We provide products and workshops across the USA and internationally.
• The Relationship of Learning Problems and Classroom Performance to Sensory Integration
• Sensory Overload When Children Can't Process Stimuli (article at ABC News)
  
• Sensory Equipment & Products
  This pages consists of a listing of Sensory Equipment and Products. It is for informational purposes only. KidPower does not affiliate with or recommend any of the following companies.

Traumatic stress

• Abuse Rewires the Brain
• Child Welfare League of America

And...

• Aaron's Tracheostomy Page
• Pediatric Ear, Nose and Throat Page for Parents
• National Psoriasis Foundation
• Psoriasis and Skin Diseases Self Help: The Skin Page
• National Organization for Rare Disorders
• Office of Rare Diseases
• Genetic and Rare Conditions Site
  Lay advocacy groups, support groups, information on genetic conditions and birth defects for professionals, educators and individuals - National and International organizations - Categories - Genetic Counselors and Geneticists - Children and teen sites - Advocacy - Diversity - Other - Suggestions - Search