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On the following pages, you will find some of the medical or technical resources we've found. Some of the articles may only be available in medical libraries or other medical resources, so you may want to seek your doctor's assistance in obtaining some of the information.

Medical Resources

• Accessible Examination Table Developed by Sandra L. Welner, MD. This examination table allows for persons with disabilities to transfer as independently as possible, and to use a variety of positions for achieving the examination. Ideal for gynecological/obstetric and other types of examinations.

• National Study of Women with Disabilities: Pregnancy Brought to you by the Center for Research on Women with Disabilities 3440 Richmond Avenue, Suite B - Houston, Texas 77046 Phone: 713-960-0505 Toll Free: 800-44-CROWD Fax: 713-961-3555 email: crowd@bcm.tmc.edu.

Medical Books

• Reproductive Issues for Persons With Physical Disabilities Brookes Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore MD, 1993.

• Sexual Function in People With Disability and Chronic Illness : A Health Professional's Guide Marca L. Sipski and Craig Alexander, Aspen Publications, Gaithersburg, MD.

• Women With Physical Disabilities : Achieving and Maintaining Health and Well-Being Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1996.

Journal Articles, Research Papers, and Book Chapters

• Bergman, Susan and Sandra Welner, The Disabled Patient. Medical Care of Women, Sanders & White, 1993, pp. 749-759.

• Demasio, Kafui and Urania Margriples, Pregnancy Complicated by Maternal Paraplegia or Tetraplegia as a Result of Spinal Cord Injury and Spina Bifida. Sexuality and Disability, Volume 17, No. 3, 1999.

• Fiduccia, BW, Multiplying Choices: Improving Access to Reproductive Health Services for Women with Disabilities. Berkeley Planning Associates, Berkeley, CA, 1997.

• Kirschner, Kristi L., Carol J. Gill, Judy Panko Reis, and Sandra Welner, Health Issues for Women with Disabilities. Rehabilitation Medicine: Principles and Practice, Third Edition (DeLisa and Gans, eds.); Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia, 1998.

• Welner, S., Gynecologic Care of the Disabled Woman. Contemporary OB/GYN, Vol. 38, No. 1, p. 55, 1993.

• Welner, Sandra, Pregnancy in Women with Disabilities. Cherry and Merkatz's Complications of Pregnancy, Fifth Edition (W.R. Cohen, ed.), Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2000.

• Welner, Sandra, Reproductive Endocrinology and Disability: The Effect of Disability on Menstrual Cyclicity and Fertility. Infertility and Reproductive Clinics of North America, Vol. 9, No. 4, October, 1998.

• Winch, Roberta, et. al., Women with Cerebral Palsy: Obstetric Experience and Neonatal Outcome. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 1993, 35, pp. 974-982.

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