Teaching and Learning Resources
Explore disability-focused curricula, teaching tools, clinical training, communication resources, and interprofessional learning materials for health professions education.
These resources can help educators integrate disability into existing courses, create new learning experiences, prepare students for disability-inclusive practice, and strengthen interprofessional education.
The collection emphasizes practical resources that educators and health professionals can use in teaching, simulation, clinical education, faculty development, and health care improvement.
Resources for teaching disability across professions and developing collaborative learning experiences.
A growing collection of interprofessional educational resources designed to improve health care and health outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Resources include Inclusive Health Fundamentals, advanced interprofessional education with service learning, virtual IPE with people with IDD as simulated patients, and IPE using people with IDD as standardized patients.
The National Center supports interprofessional practice and education and maintains a digital Resource Center containing educational materials for collaborative learning and practice.
A flexible core curriculum developed for the IDD workforce that can be integrated into academic courses, organizational training, or service-learning experiences.
Materials for educators developing or strengthening disability-related content within health professions curricula.
The Council on Social Work Education provides a structured curricular resource for integrating disability into professional education, including classroom exercises, assessments, slides, assignments, personal stories, readings, and a searchable educational resource database.
Although designed for social work education, many of the teaching strategies and disability concepts can inform curriculum development across health professions.
AASPIRE develops participatory research and inclusion resources in partnership with autistic people and other community members. Its Inclusion Toolkit supports more inclusive research and community-engaged practices.
The Disability Equity Collaborative provides evidence-based resources and practical tools for improving disability access in health care, including guidance for health care organizations on accessibility programs, accommodation needs, effective communication, and accessible care.
Training resources that support accessible, responsive, person-centered care for people with disabilities.
The New Hampshire Disability and Health Program offers free, virtual, on-demand training for health professionals on disability-competent care.
Current modules address providing health care and screenings to people with disabilities and accessible and adaptive communication. Continuing education is available for several health professions.
This free, virtual, on-demand training focuses specifically on effective oral health care for adults with disabilities, including barriers to care, disability-competent practice, and strategies for patients with mobility, intellectual, and other disabilities.
The Disability Equity Collaborative's implementation guide helps health care organizations build disability accessibility programs, document accommodation needs, provide accommodations, and improve effective communication.
Practical tools for teaching and implementing accessible communication in health care settings.
A collection of communication tools, planning resources, educational materials, accommodation guides, and health-care-visit planning tools for patients and health professionals.
Patient-Provider Communication provides practical tools for identifying a patient's communication needs, documenting those needs in the health record, and arranging accommodations before and during health care encounters.
CDAC provides resources for making health services accessible to people with speech and communication disabilities, including guidance related to communication supports, informed consent, capacity, autonomy, and communication accommodations.
The ADHCE Core Competencies on Disability for Health Care Education provide a framework for integrating disability knowledge, skills, professionalism, legal responsibilities, team-based care, clinical assessment, and care across the lifespan into health professions education.
This page is a curated starting point rather than a comprehensive directory. Resources are selected for their usefulness in disability-focused health professions education, clinical training, curriculum development, and communication access. Inclusion of an external resource does not imply ADHCE endorsement of all content or positions of the originating organization.
About the AllianceThe Alliance for Disability in Health Care Education, Inc. (ADHCE), is a '501(c)(3) Public Charity' organization of healthcare educators and professionals who are working to integrate disability-related content and experiences into healthcare education and training programs. |
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