Teaching and Learning Resources
Explore disability-focused organizations, curricula, toolkits, and professional resources for specific health professions and clinical disciplines.
Disability-inclusive care is the responsibility of every health profession. The resources below can help educators, clinicians, and students integrate disability into professional education, clinical practice, and workforce development.
Resources are organized by profession for easier navigation. Many are also useful across disciplines and may support interprofessional education.
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research provides information for health professionals on oral health care for people with developmental disabilities, including practical considerations for clinical care.
The New Hampshire Disability and Health Program offers free, on-demand training focused on effective oral health care for adults with disabilities, barriers to care, and disability-competent practice.
SCDA supports oral health professionals caring for people with special health care needs through professional education, collaboration, advocacy, and clinical resources.
SUNY Upstate Medical University's Disability Integration Toolkit provides disability-related educational materials for medical education, including modules, clinical cases, small-group activities, journal-club resources, and continuing education.
AADMD is an interdisciplinary organization working to improve health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through education, advocacy, professional development, and collaboration.
MSDCI supports medical students and physicians with disabilities and chronic illnesses and promotes disability inclusion and accessibility within medical education.
ACE.D from the National League for Nursing provides disability-focused teaching resources designed to help nursing faculty prepare students to provide high-quality, person-centered care to people with disabilities.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing provides resources for nursing programs related to students with disabilities, accommodations, inclusive education, and preparing a diverse nursing workforce.
NOND promotes equity and inclusion for nurses and nursing students with disabilities and works to remove barriers within nursing education and professional practice.
DDNA supports nurses caring for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through education, certification, professional development, and resources.
The Golisano Institute at St. John Fisher University works to transform nursing education and health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through education, research, leadership, and workforce development.
AOTA provides professional education, evidence-based practice resources, and guidance related to participation, accessibility, disability, health, and occupational therapy practice.
AOTA's practice resources can support evidence-informed clinical decision-making and discussion of appropriate, person-centered occupational therapy interventions.
AACP supports pharmacy educators and programs preparing pharmacists for patient-centered, collaborative, and inclusive practice.
Pharmacy educators can use the ADHCE Core Competencies alongside interprofessional disability curricula and communication-access resources to integrate disability content into pharmacy education and experiential learning.
AAPM&R is the national medical specialty organization representing physiatrists and provides education, clinical resources, professional development, and advocacy related to function, rehabilitation, and disability.
Developed through Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at SUNY Upstate, this toolkit offers ready-to-use disability education for medical and health professions learners.
The APTA Academy of Leadership and Innovation provides disability-competence educational resources designed to help physical therapist and physical therapist assistant programs incorporate disability content and the ADHCE Core Competencies into curricula.
APTA provides professional education, evidence-based resources, advocacy, and practice guidance related to movement, mobility, participation, rehabilitation, and patient-centered care.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Evidence Maps provide searchable evidence, clinical practice guidelines, systematic reviews, and patient perspectives across communication and swallowing topics.
Practical tools for improving communication access during health care encounters, including planning resources, communication supports, and accommodation guidance.
CDAC provides resources on communication accessibility, accommodations, informed consent, communication assistance, and health care access for people with speech and communication disabilities.
Many disability education resources are intentionally interprofessional. Visit ADHCE's Interprofessional Education & Toolkits collection for curricula, clinical training, communication-access tools, and resources that can be used across health professions.
This is a curated collection rather than a comprehensive directory of professional organizations. Priority is given to resources that can help health professions educators, students, and clinicians strengthen disability-inclusive education and practice. Inclusion of an external resource does not imply ADHCE endorsement of all content or positions of the originating organization.
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