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. |
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. |
BrainTalk Communities: Teens Helping Teens
Online support group and message forum for teens with neurological disorders. |
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. |
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: 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: 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. |
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. |
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] |
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. |
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. |
Disability Social History Project
Presents short biographies of famous people who had a disabling mental or physical illness. |
Famous People with Disabilities
A long list of well-known names is grouped according to different conditions. Includes historical figures and present day celebrities. |
Famous People with Disabilities
Common conditions are listed with the names of well known people and historical figures who had these illnesses. |
Kids Quest on Disability and Health
Explains what a disability is and answers common questions about living with one. |
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. |
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.] |
Novita Kids
Made specially for kids with physical disabilities, and features things to do, places to visit, and lots to learn about. |
Novita Teens
Designed specifically for teenagers with physical disabilities, and featuring resources, information, activities and a forum. |
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. |
SB-Teens
Discussion group for teens with spina bifida to exchange ideas, stories, or just chat. Siblings welcome. |
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. |
SparkTop.org
Activity-based site for kids. Paint pictures, write stories and poems, and talk to other kids with difficulties. |
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. |
Teens with Chronic Diseases
Support group for teens between the ages of 12-21. Open to anyone with any chronic disease including cancer. |
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. |
When Meeting Friends with Disabilities
Information about what is okay to say or do when a friend has a disability. |
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. |
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. |
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