Accessibility & Health Resources

Poster outlining rights surrounding workplace discrimination, provided in various forms to improve accessibility.

This website provides a toolkit with resources and strategies to improve healthcare access and outcomes for individuals with disabilities in rural areas.

The fact sheet provides strategies for supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) through grief and loss, offering guidance to caregivers and professionals to enhance their well-being.

The guide offers best practices for respectful and inclusive interactions with individuals with disabilities, emphasizing direct communication, patience, offering appropriate assistance, and respecting personal autonomy and mobility aids.

This guide provides tips and tricks for creating effective image descriptions, also known as alt text, for use on various social media platforms.

The document provides inclusive emergency preparedness guidelines for people with disabilities, focusing on the C-MIST framework and accessible planning.

This ADA website provides guidelines for hospitals to ensure effective communication with deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals using interpreters, assistive devices, and other aids.

This ADA website provides guidance on ensuring accessible parking spaces are available and properly marked when restriping parking facilities, in accordance with the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design.

This ADA website offers guidance on ensuring effective communication with individuals with vision, hearing, or speech disabilities through tailored auxiliary aids and services.

This ADA website outlines rules for accommodating service animals, mainly dogs, in public spaces, including their permitted areas and control requirements.

This ADA website explains the rules for accommodating various mobility devices, including wheelchairs and other power-driven mobility devices (OPDMDs), in public spaces to ensure accessibility for people with mobility disabilities.

Easy to read resource outlining the requirements for state and local government agencies.

Autism ECHO will engage participants in the 5 steps of early identification: Promotional awareness, parent engaged developmental monitoring, developmental screening and assessment, referral, and services provided. The focus will be to increase the capacit...

The "Autism Essentials" course at Utah State University provides professionals with knowledge on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) history, symptoms, screening, and interventions.

Early ECHO is a knowledge-sharing, virtual learning community of practice for Part C early interventionists from Mountain West regional states (Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota). Early Childhood ECHO increases the capacity of early childhoo...

The goal of this ECHO is to increase access to information and education about healthy relationships and sexuality for adults with disabilities. Individuals with disabilities are more likely to be victims of sexual abuse, exploitation, and left out of con...

The Diversity ECHO program supports early detection of developmental disabilities in diverse communities by equipping professionals with culturally sensitive tools to improve referrals and reduce disparities in support.

This Utah State University course teaches how to identify mental health issues in the agricultural population and connect them to quality resources.

The video emphasizes the critical importance of access to quality assistive technology for individuals with disabilities. It highlights the WHO’s efforts to support this need by developing protocols for product specifications, ensuring assistive devices a...

The video series "Improving the Lives of Individuals with Autism through Exercise" by NCHPAD and Exercise Connection features Coach Dave Geslak and provides strategies to enhance physical health and reduce repetitive behaviors in children with autism.

This short video describes how we are all "temporarily able-bodied", meaning that everyone will eventually have some sort of disability, and the value of creating accessible, inclusive spaces.

Short video explaining the regulations of Titles 1 and 2 of the ADA for local health departments.

How do we create more inclusive environments? Dr. Matthew Wappett, Executive Director of the Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, recommends focusing on these three areas of accessibility to get started.

The video outlines strategies to make COVID-19 safety measures accessible for individuals with disabilities. It emphasizes the importance of accessible communication practices, such as providing information in multiple formats, and integrating disability-...