Health Impairment

Fact Sheet

The term special health impairment refers to a variety of health problems that dictate the need for special medical or educational services. Health impairments include convulsive disorders, cystic fibrosis, heart disease, sickle cell disease, hemophilia, asthma, rheumatic fever, cancer, AIDS, or any other chronic or acute health problem that limits strength, vitality, or alertness and adversely affects the student's educational development.

The following links are from the PACER Center Web site at

http://www.pacer.org/links/national/disability.htm#2

PACER Center
Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights

• AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth, and Families
  www.aids-alliance.org/aids_alliance/index.html
  1600 K St NW #300 Washington, DC 20006, 888-917-AIDS, 202-785-3564, fax 202-785-3579
• Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics
  www.aanma.org
  2751 Prosperity Ave # 150, Fairfax, VA 22031, 800-878-4403, fax 703-573-7794
• American Chronic Pain Association
  www.theacpa.org
  PO Box 850, Rocklin, CA 95677, 916-632-0922, fax 916-632-3208
• American Diabetes Association
  www.diabetes.org/home.jsp
  1701 N Beauregard St, Alexandria, VA 22311, 800-342-2383
• American Pain Foundation
  www.painfoundation.org
  201 N Charles St # 710, Baltimore, MD 21201, 1-888-615-7246
• Arthritis Foundation
  www.arthritis.org
  P.O. Box 7669, Atlanta, GA 30357-0669, 800-283-7800, 404-872-7100, fax 404-872-0457
• Cancer Information Service
  http://cis.nci.nih.gov
  800-332-8615
• Candlelighters' Childhood Cancer Foundation
  www.candlelighters.org
  P.O. Box 498, Kensington, MD 20895, 800-366-2223, 301-962-3520, fax 301-962-3521
• The CFIDS Association of America Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome
  www.cfids.org
  PO Box 220398, Charlotte, NC 20222, 704-365-2343, 800-442-3437, fax 704-365-9755
• Children with Diabetes
  www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/index_cwd.htm
  5689 Chancery Pl, Hamilton, OH 45011
• Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America
  www.ccfa.org
  386 Park Ave S 17th Fl, NY,NY 10016, 800-932-2423, fax 212-779-4098
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
  www.cff.org/home/
  6931 Arlington Rd., Bethesda, MD 20814, 800-344-4823, 301-951-4422, fax 301-951-6378
• FACES the National Craniofacial Association
  www.faces-cranio.org
  PO Box 11082 Chattanooga, TN 37401, 800-332-2373, 423-266-1632, fax 423-267-3124
• Family Voices
  www.familyvoices.org
  3411 Candelaria NE Suite M, Albuquerque, NM 87107, 888-835-5669, 505-872-4774, fax 505-872-4780
• The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network
  www.foodallergy.org
  10400 Eaton Place #107, Fairfax, VA 22030, 800-929-4040
• Immune Deficiency Foundation
  www.primaryimmune.org
  40 Chesapeake Ave. #308, Baltimore, MD 21204-4843, (800) 222-3123, (410) 296-0232, fax (410) 321-5069
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDF)
  www.jdf.org
  120 Wall St., 19th Floor, New York, NY 10005-4001, 212-785-9500, 800-223-1138 v/TTY,212-785-9500 fax, 800-533-2873
• Lupus Foundation of America, Inc.
  www.lupus.org
  1300 Piccard #200, Rockville, MD 20850-4303, 800-558-0121, 301-670-9292
• National Center for Education in Maternal Child Health
  www.ncemch.org
  2000 N 15th St. #701, Arlington, VA 22201, 703-524-7802, fax 703-524-9335
• National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC)
  www.niddk.nih.gov
  One Information Way, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301-654-3327, fax 301-907-8906
• National Hemophilia Foundation
  www.hemophilia.org
  116 W 32nd St, 11th Floor, NY, NY 10001, 800-42HANDI, 212-328-3700, fax 212-328-3777
• The National MPS Society, Inc. (Mucopolysaccharidoses)
  www.mpssociety.org
  45 Packard Dr, Bangor, ME 04401,207-947-1445, fax 207-990-3074
• National Organization for Albinism & Hypopigmentation (NOAH)
  www.albinism.org
  PO Box 959, East Hampstead, NH 03826-0959, (800) 473-2310, (603) 887-2310
• Organic Acidemia Association
  www.OAANews.org
  13210 35th Ave N, Plymouth, MN 55441, 763-559-1797, fax 763-694-0017
• PACER's Parent-to Parent Health Information and Advocacy Center
  www.pacer.org
  8161 Normandale Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55437, 800-537-2237, 952-838-9000, TTY 952-838-0190, fax 952-838-0199
• Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases
  www.pkids.org
  PO Box 5666 Vancouver, WA 98668, 1-877-55PKIDS, 360-695-0293, fax 360-695-6941
• Prader-Willi Syndrome Association
  www.pwsausa.org
  5700 Midnight Pass Rd. #6, Sarasota, FL 34242, (941) 312-0400, (941) 312-0142 fax
• Share and Care Cockayne Syndrome Network
  www.cockayne-syndrome.org
  Shirley Rodriguez, 972-613-4590 or 214-728-2679
• Sickle Cell Disease Association of America
  www.sicklecelldisease.org
  200 Corporate Point #495, Culver City, CA 90230, 800-421-5453
• United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation
  www.umdf.org
  8085 Saltsburg Rd #201, Pittsburgh, PA 15239, 412-793-8077, fax 412-793-6477