living with disability

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• - Made specially for kids with physical disabilities, and features things to do, places to visit, and lots to learn about.
  
• - Designed specifically for teenagers with physical disabilities, and featuring resources, information, activities and a forum.
  
• - Common conditions are listed with the names of well known people and historical figures who had these illnesses.
  
• - Lists ten ways that kids with learning disabilities can make life easier for themselves at school. Includes quotes from affected children.
  
• - Made by and for adolescents with a brother or sister having a disability or chronic illness. Includes interviews, reviews, and submitted stories and poems.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Presents short biographies of famous people who had a disabling mental or physical illness.
  
• - Provides answers to the most common questions asked by both blind and sighted children about how affected people manage with daily life.
  
• - Explains why using the right language is important, and gives a list of phrases to use, as well as terms which are not recommended.
  
• - The e-zine is written by and for teens with disabilities, and includes personal stories, interviews, advice, and submitted articles and poems.
  
• - 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.