[PHSW] Table Manners and Beyond

[Laura Larsson]

Friends:

I found this in my travels, today. It was a URL given as part of a 
presentation done at APHA last year proving that including URLs in your 
abstracts is a good thing and often exceedingly useful to folks like 
myself who love finding new information and passing it along.

For those of you working with women with disabilities, you might find 
this document of interest (or you might want to refer it to those who do 
work with women with functional limitations). It is called: "Table 
Manners and Beyond: The Gynecological Exam for Women with Developmental 
Disabilities and Other Functional Limitations." It was edited by 
Katherine M. Simpson, MA, MFCC and produced by Kathleen Lankasky, BA, MLE.

In addition to lots of useful information, you can find information for 
midwives, birth control, midlife issues, a sample questionnaire, as well 
as a lot of useful information for actually giving a pelvic - including 
how to reduce stress. The manual is well-and-appropriately-illustrated 
with line drawings. The URL is: 
http://www.bhawd.org/sitefiles/TblMrs/cover.html . Click on Table of 
Contents.
 
This page is part of a Website called "Breast Health Access for Women 
With Disabilities". Some of the links don't always work on the site, but 
what information that is available looks good. The site URL is: 
http://www.bhawd.org/ . Breast Health Access for Women with Disabilities 
is a community partnership of women with disabilities, breast cancer 
survivors, medical professionals and grassroots disability rights 
organizations apparently located in Berkeley, CA.

I also really liked the glossary/dictionary of terms for people with 
breast health concerns located at 
http://www.bhawd.org/sitefiles/glossary.html. Of special interest to 
those experiencing pain is a listing of "words of pain" 
(http://www.bhawd.org/sitefiles/painwrds.html). That I found to be 
particularly interesting reading.

Hope you find this useful.

 -- 
Regards,

Laura Larsson
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