More Resources & Tools

Comprehensive Tools

• Toolkit for Primary Care Providers

Communication Tools

• Picture Communication Aid

The Special Olympics Online Learning Portal

The Special Olympics Online Learning Portal (learn.specialolympics.org) provides a variety of free training modules for health and wellness professionals around care and health of people with intellectual disabilities.  For more information on the learning portal and how to register click here. 

Pharmacology Tools

• Medication Side Effect Watch List – PDF

• Medication Dental Side Effect Watch List – PDF

Suggested Reading

• Canadian Primary Care Documents

• Community Supports for Aging Adults With Lifelong Disabilities

• Genetics and Mental Retardation Syndromes: A New Look at Behavior and Intervention

• Intellectual Disabilities at Your Fingertips: A Health Care Resource

• Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States (Medicine and Society)

• Medical Care for Children & Adults With Developmental Disabilities

• Medical Issues for Adults with Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities (High Tide Monograph Series) (High Tide Disability)

• Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader (The History of Disability)

• Smith's Recognizable Patterns Of Human Malformation Sixth Edition (Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation)

• Treating the Dental Patient with a Developmental Disorder

• The Willowbrook Wars

Training Opportunities

• American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine

• American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Teleconferences and Webinars

• Developmental Disabilities Lecture Series from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

• Developmental Disabilities Nurses Association

• The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities

• Orange Grove

• Program in Aging and Developmental Disabilities from the University of Rochester Medical Center

• Special Olympics

• Lee Specialty Clinic