“Full of practical, meaty information, this program demystifies disability, emphasizes that ‘disability’ is not ‘illness.’ The central theme is that the outward manifestations of disability do not mean that there is a diminution of human capacity. . . Powerful and instructive . .”
Dr. Robert Master, Commonwealth Care Alliance, Boston.

Access to Medical Care: People with Developmental Disabilities is a new 25-minute DVD. Includes closed captions and audio descriptions. View a preview on YouTube.

Access to Medical Care: Adults with Physical Disabilities, selected for Brandeis University’s Irving Zola Memorial Lecture Award in 2008, is a 22-minute DVD. Includes closed captions. View a preview on YouTube.

Access to Medical Care is a two-part video series that is designed to educate medical providers, families and individuals with disabilities about health care access and disability sensitivity. It empowers providers, patients and families to achieve accessible, appropriate care in compliance with U.S. disability law.

Through compelling interviews with individuals, physicians, nurses, dentists, parents, and advocates, the two DVDs introduce and clarify key concepts in treating people with physical and developmental disabilities. Appropriate for students and professionals, they:

• Explore the views and experiences of people with disabilities and providers in establishing rapport and effective communication,

• Address cultural competence, access and communication issues which often arise in the clinic,

• Identify common myths and stereotypes which interfere with accurate assessment of patients,

• Explain barriers which result in disparities in health care delivery, including physical/architectural, communication, attitudinal and social/economic policy,

• Identify the most common access and accommodation needs of adults with physical, sensory and communication disabilities, as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, and explains feasible, cost-effective solutions,

• Clarify essential principles of quality care in treating people with disabilities,

• Reinforce key learning points in bulleted graphics (available in printed handouts in the curriculum).

The DVDs come with Access to Medical Care: Training Tools for Health Care Providers, Disabled Patients and Advocates on Culturally Competent Care and Compliance with Disability Law. This accompanying text offers a case-based learning exercise and extensive in-depth reference materials. It provides essential knowledge for appropriate provision of care and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The curriculum emphasizes access and communication as the fundamental components in addressing health care disparities for people with disabilities. It is included free with any purchase of either of the DVDs or can be downloaded here.

Price: Each individual DVD costs $100 plus $4 shipping and handling, and CA sales tax, where applicable. When purchased together, there is a discounted total price of $150 plus $4 shipping and handling, and CA sales tax where applicable. 

Free consultation on training sessions included with purchase. Price discounts are available for individuals with disabilities and special circumstances.

Click here to download the order form.

Contact Dr. Marsha Saxton, for more information, at 510-225-6349 or marsax@wid.org.

The curriculum was developed by the World Institute on Disability, in collaboration with Nisonger Center, Ohio State University; Center for Health Care Strategies; Kaiser Foundation Multi-Media; California HealthCare Foundation.