Helpful Website Links

 

General Websites:

 

www.loveandlogic.com     Love and Logic parenting and educator resources

 

www.aap.org   The American Academy of Pediatrics

 

www.lehman.cuny.edu/faculty/jfleitas/bandaides  The Band-Aids and Blackboards website is for teachers and families of children with medical issues. Features articles, stories, etc.

 

www.bravekids.org This website includes thousands of resource references including disease- specific links. Be sure to visit this one.

 

www.caringbridge.com Caring Bridge offers free websites so that families and friends can easily communicate information about a child’s medical condition. 

 

www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/  The National Center for Infectious Diseases is a great, unbiased resource for many diseases.

 

http://www.education.com  Filled with many excellent research based articles and resources for families.
 

www.fda.gov/cder/drug/ The US Food and Drug Administration provides excellent information about prescription drugs.

 

www.nlm.nih.gov/   National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine is also another great, unbiased resource for diseases including genetic and non-infectious diseases.

 

www.quotationspage.com Resource for some of the quotations we used in the book.

 

 

Websites for Specific Medical Conditions:

 

Aids:  www.pedaids.org Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

 

Allergies and Asthma:  www.aafa.org and www.aaaai.org 

 

Cancer: www.cancer.org The American Cancer Society

 

Cerebral Palsy: www.ucp.org United Cerebral Palsy

 

Cystic Fibrosis: www.cff.org, www.cfri.org and www.esiason.org

 

Diabetes: www.jdrf.org Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

   www.diabetes.org American Diabetes Association

 

Disabilities: www.easterseals.com Helping People with Disabilities

 

Down Syndrome:  www.ndss.org National Down Syndrome Society

 

Dwarfism: www.lpaonline.org  Little People of America

 

Eating Disorders: www.edap.org National Eating Disorders Association

 

Epilepsy: www.epilepsyfoundation.org Epilepsy Foundation

 

Hemophilia: www.hemophilia.org  National Hemophilia Foundation

 

Leukemia: www.leukemia.org The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

 

Muscular Dystrophy Association: www.mdausa.org

 

Obesity: www.obesity.org American Obesity Association

 

Premature Births, Birth Defects and Low Birth-weight www.marchofdimes.com 

 

Sickle Cell Anemia: www.ascaa.org American Sickle Cell Anemia Association

 

Skin Diseases: www.aad.org American Academy of Dermatology

 

 

 

 

 

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