Ms. Cailotto’s Birth Defect Project

Down SyndromeCerebral PalsyCleft Lip and PalateCystic FibrosisSickle-CellAchondroplasia (Dwarfism)Tay-SachsPKUSpina BifidaAutismFetal Alcohol SyndromeHIV/AIDS

Down Syndrome

• Associations:– National Down Syndrom

e Society– National Association of

Down Syndrome– March of Dimes

• Books:– World of Health– Diseases– Human Diseases and

Conditions– Sick

• Web sites:– CDC– Mayo Clinic– MedLine Plus– Web MD

• Resource File (a folder of information from the public library’s database)

Cerebral Palsy

• Associations:– United Cerebral Palsy Assoc

.– U.S. Centers for Disease Co

ntrol

Books:

World of Health

Diseases

Human Diseases and Conditions

Sick

MacMillan Health Encyclopedia

• Web pages:– University of Virginia – Mayo Clinic– MedLine Plus

• Resource File (a folder of information from the public library’s database

Cleft lip/Cleft palate

• Associations:– American Cleft Palate-Cran

iofacial Association– American Speech-Languag

e-Hearing Association– Wide Smiles

• Books:– World of Health– Diseases– Human Diseases and

Conditions– Sick– MacMillian Health

Encyclopedia

• Web sites:– Mayo Clinic– MedLine Plus– Web MD– March of Dimes– Lucille Packard Hospital of

Stanford• Resource File (a folder of

information from the public library’s database)

Cystic Fibrosis• Associations

– Cystic Fibrosis Foundation– Boomer Esiason Foundatio

n– Kids Health– Canadian Cystic Fibrosis F

oundation• Books

– World of Health– Diseases– Sick– Genetics and Human

Health– Human Diseases and

Conditions

• Web sites– Medline– Mayo Clinic– National Heart lung and Blo

od Institute– Genetics Home Reference

• Resource File (a folder of information from the public library’s database)

Sickle cell anemia

• Resource File (a folder of information from the public library’s database)

• Organizations– Sickle Cell Disease Association– Sickle Cell Information Center

• Books– Sickle Cell Anemia– Sick– Diseases– World of Health– Human Diseases and Conditions

• Web Sites– Mayo Clinic Medline Plus Web MD– Kids Health CDC

Achondroplasia (Dwarfism)• Associations

– Little People of America – Human Growth Foundation– March of Dimes

• Books– Human Diseases and Conditions– Diseases– World of Health

• Resource File (a folder of information gathered from the Public Library’s database)

• Web pages– Short Stature– Mayo Clinic– MedLine Plus

Tay Sachs Disease

• Resource File (a folder of information from the public library’s database)

• Organizations– National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke– National Tay Sachs and Allied Diseases– Rare Diseases

• Books– Diseases– World of Health– Human Diseases and Conditions

• Web sites– Genetics Home Reference– Mayo Clinic– Medline Plus

Phenylketonuria PKU

• Resource File (a folder of information from the public library’s database)

• Books– World of Health

– Human Diseases and Conditions

• Web Sites– Mayo Clinic

– Medline Plus

– Web MD

– Rare Diseases

Spina Bifida

• Associations:– Spina Bifida Associatio

n

• Books– Diseases– Human Diseases and

Conditions– World of Health– Sick

• Web Sites:– MedLine Plus– Mayo Clinic– National Institute of He

alth

• Resource File (a folder of information from the public library’s database)

Autism

• Associations:– Autism Speaks– Autism Society– Autism Collaboration

• Books– World of Health– Diseases– Human Diseases and

Conditions– Sick

• Web sites:– Mayo Clinic– Medline Plus– Web MD– Kids Health

• Resource File (a folder of information from the public library’s database)

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

• Associations– National Organization on F

etal Alcohol Syndrome

• Books– Gale Encyclopedia of

Genetic Disorders.– World of Health– Diseases– Human Diseases and

Conditions– Sick

• Web Sites:– CDC (Center for Disease C

ontrol)– FASD– Mayo Clinic– Medline Plus– Web MD

• Resource File (a folder of information from the public library’s database)

HIV/AIDS

• Associations:– San Francisco AIDS Foundation– World AIDS campaign– Elizabeth Taylor AIDS/HIV

Foundation

• Books– There are many books on this

topic. But you might want to start with these Reference titles:

– Social issues in America Encyclopedia

– World of Health– Diseases– Human Diseases and Conditions– Sick

• Web sites:– CDC (Center for Disease

Control)– United Nations – The Body– Frontline– National Institutes of Health

• Resource File (a folder of information from the public library’s database)