SHS 145 - Introduction to Disabling Conditions: Week 7 - Types of Disability: Cognition, Vision

Week 7 Reading

Cognitive:

Brain Anatomy and Function:
Brain Basics: Know Your Brain. - The National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council (NANDSC)
Brain Anatomy and How the Brain Works - The Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Inside the Brain: A tour of how the mind works. - Alzheimer's Association

Cognitive Impairments and Disorders:

Aphasia

• What is Aphasia?. - National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
• Aphasia.- Johns Hopkins Medicine 
• What is Aphasia (Includes Fact Sheet - The National Aphasia Association 

 

Attention Deficit Disorder

• ADHD Facts. - Attention Deficit Disorder Association
• Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). -  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Struggling With Attention and Organization as You Age? It Could be ADHD, not Dementia - Harvard Health Publishing
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)  - NAM, National Alliance on Mental Illness

 

Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Autism Spectrum Disorder - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes
• Intellectual Disability and ASD. - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 
• Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children. - University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester

Dementia:

• What is Dementia? - University of California San Francisco
• Dementia: Identifying Mild, Moderate, and Severe - UNC School of Medicine
• Protecting Against Cognitive Decline. - Harvard Health Publishing
• Cognitive Impairment: A Call for Action Now! - CDC

Mild Cognitive Impairment:

• Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) - Alzheimer's Association
• More Than Normal Aging: Understanding Mild Cognitive Impairment - Alzheimer's Association (Long report but recent and thorough)
• Why Subjective Cognitive Decline is a Growing Health Issue Among Women Columbia Irving Medical Center
• Subjective Cognitive Decline — A Public Health Issue - CDC

Alzheimer's:

Alzheimer’s Disease - University of California San Francisco

Parkinson's Disease:

• What is Parkinson's? - The Parkinson's Foundation
• Parkinson’s Dementias. - University of California San Francisco
• Cognitive Changes. - The Parkinson's Foundation

Other forms of Dementia: - University of California San Francisco

• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
• Corticobasal Syndrome
• Frontotemporal Dementia
• HIV-Related Cognitive Impairment
• Huntington's Disease
• Mild Cognitive Impairment
• Posterior Cortical Atrophy
• Primary Progressive Aphasia
• Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
• Rapidly Progressive Dementia
• Vascular Dementia

Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Palsy and Cognitive Impairment. - CerebralPalsy.org

Down Syndrome

What is Down syndrome?- Boston Children's Hospital

 Epilepsy 

• Epilepsy. - American Association of Neurological Surgeons
• What Is Epilepsy?. - Epilepsy Foundation
• Lennox-Gastaut SyndromeL - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 

 

Learning and Communication Disorders Related to Cognitive Impairments

Dyslexia

• Dyslexia Basics - International Dyslexia Association
• Defining Dyslexia. - National Center on Improving Literacy

Dyscalculia

• About Dyscalculia. - UNESCO
• What is Dyscalculia?. - The Learning Disabilities Association of America

Speech Sound and Motor Speech

• Speech Sound Disorders. - The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
• Dysarthria. - The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

Stuttering (Fluency)

• Fluency Disorders - The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
• Learn About Stuttering. - National Stuttering Association

Swallowing (Dysphagia) 

DysphagiaL. - National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

Voice and Resonance

Resonance Disorders.  - The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

Vision

How the Eyes Work:

• How the Eyes Work. - National Eye Institute
• How does the eye work?. - National Library of Medicine

Eye Conditions 

• Common Eye Disorders and Diseases -  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration
  • Amblyopia
  • Cataract
  • Diabetic Retinopathy
  • Glaucoma
  • Refractive Errors
  • Strabismus
• Types of Vision Loss .- Braille Institute of America, Inc
• Blindness and vision impairment. - World Health Organization
• How are the terms low vision, visually impaired, and blind defined?. - DO-IT, University of Washington
• Visual Impairments - Health Policy Institute
• Eye Conditions and Diseases - National Eye Institute

 

Week 7 Video and Web Resources

 

The Brain and How It Functions

Attention Deficit Disorder

Children’s Mental Disorders: A Journey for Parents and Children. - CDC (This contains videos within the link)

Parkinson's Disease

Dementia 

Vision

This is a series of short videos that shows how different eye conditions affect vision:

See What I See Virtual Reality App - YouTube  (Click on this and watch a couple of the short videos)Links to an external site.