PhinisheD support for people doing their PhD dissertation
PhinisheD support for people doing their PhD dissertation
Piled Higher and Deeper comics for graduate students
Merrriam-Webster On-line dictionary
Opportunities in Occupational Therapy Careers
Abbott, M., Franciscus, M-L., & Weeks, Z. R.
WB 555 A133o 2001 Health Circulation
Beautiful Again: Restoring Your Image & Enhancing Body Changes
Willis, J.
WB 320 W734 1993 Health Reserve
Play Helps: Toys and Activities for Children with Special Needs
Lear, R.
WS 105.5 L438p 1996 Health Circulation
Understanding and Managing Vision Deficits: a Guide for Occupational Therapists
Scheiman, M.
WW 140 S319u 1997 Health Reserve
The Healing Power of Herbs: the Enlightened Person's Guide to the Wonders of Medicinal Plants
Murray, Dr. M.
QV 767 M983h 1995 Health Circulation
Recommended by Dr. Kerry Earlywine, NSU pharmacist; each herb is referenced by scientific studies and includes suggested dosages. This info is important if we as OTs suspect an impairment of function because of medicines, over-the-counter or prescribed.
Encyclopedia of Nutritional Supplements
Murray, Dr. M.
QU 13 M983e 1996 Health Circulation
Also recommended by Dr. Earlywine, this book mentions possible drug interactions, etc. This info is important if we as OTs suspect an impairment of function because of medicines, over-the-counter or prescribed.
DealTime.com go here before you buy books, music, or videos on-line; this site calculates & displays the total cost of materials from MANY online vendors & even links you directly to the vendors' websites
Download Braille and ASL Specialty Fonts for Windows and Macintosh
NSU Help Desk learn how to set up your own webpage via NSU--all NSU students & employees get free webpage space; click on "Support Topics" & then "Web Page Basics"
NSU Pine E-Mail access your e-mail account via the Internet. After initially logging in, it may say, "Connection to Host Lost." Click "OK" & then click on the "Connect" menu & "hpd.nova.edu" & log in again.
MicroWeb another way to access your an electronic version of your Pine e-mail account via the Internet.
(NSU Pine) E-mail Forwarding Maintenance you can have your NSU e-mail forwarded to another e-mail account
Getting Started with Email Using Pine Pine e-mail tutorial
NSU Help Desk info for accessing the Internet from home via NSU, etc.
Want to learn a new skill? Adult education is an inexpensive route--I've found that the instructors are excellent and the students are people who want to learn. Broward Educator & Miami-Dade Community College: Community Education Class Schedules. There are free online classes available, too: Hewlett-Packard Online Classes Learning Center, has many business classes; Barnes & Noble University, Equal Access to Software & Information (EASI) click on "Webcasts" to listen to lectures & interviews or to view the transcripts on web accessibility; WebMonkey learn new computer skills.
GPA Calculator for those who want to improve upon or obsess about their grade point average; the site also gives the + & - letter grades and their corresponding decimal on the 4.0 scale; instructions for using it is linked here
Calculate Your Course Grade enter in the grade, weight, & name of each assignment to calculate your course grade
The Longevity Game answer a few questions, & the Northwestern Mutual Life Calculator will show your life expectancy
Sign It! board game for learning American Sign Language
Alphabet Signs company that sells ADA signs
Sexual Health for disabilities
HandiHam ham radio for people with disabilities
Land's End Clothing Model click on on My Model, enter body measurements, hair color, etc. & virtually try on clothes from Land's End
The Year 2001 Health Observances Calendar look up health observances such as "National Aphasia Awareness Week" and "National Occupational Therapy Month"; go to their homepage if you want the calendar in PDF format
Health Observances & Healthcare Recognition Dates
Activity Calendar lists family and health-related observances & the contact info for more information about each observance
Pueblo, Colorado On-Line Consumer Info
Searchable Public Record Databases in the US (by state) or Canada: look up Corporations, Trademarks, Physician Discipline actions, Prisoners, etc.
SAMHSA's Mental Health Services Locator it is a government site
Social Security Programs Throughout the World: 1999 in HTML & PDF formats; the 2001 edition will be available soon
Medicare: Search & Compare Tools includes Medicare Health Plan Compare (also available in Spanish), Medigap Compare, Nursing Home Compare, & Participating Provider Directory
Social Gerontology & the Aging Revolution great links; check out "Old Age Across Cultures and Time"
Extended Care.com: Extended Care Providers search for different types of housing facilities, such as nursing homes & community/senior centers, by zipcode &/or client's functional level
Senior Sites search for non-profit senior housing by state and ammenities
Senior Providers Website senior services, facilities, housing, & resources in Florida
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) info on making the web more accessible
Web Site Accessibility Guidelines Page links for web accessibility
Worksupport.com info & resources for employment of people with disabilities
Blindness Resource Center web accessibility links
Choco-Braille candy bars with braille messages on them--don't leave them in the car!
HotBraille.com send an email message & they will supposedly transcribe it into braille and mail it for free, also has online braille instruction
Cocktail Party Panache tips for when you're attending those fundraisers & other worthy events
NSU Libraries Full-Text Journal Search & HPD Library Full-Text Journal Search will need NSU password to look up and read full-text journals
Free Medical Journals many links to free, online medical journals are listed by title and by language
PubMedCentral also has some free, online medical journals
Online Status of Brandon-Hill (Allied Health/Medical) Journals Brandon-Hill is a recommended list of books and journals that medical libraries should have; the site lists many of those journals and whether the journal is available online, if it is for free or a fee, & journal issues available
Librarian's Index to the Internet a fantastic resource--many great links are described (annotated)!; you can also sign up to their alerting service which will send you only the top 20 links they added that week (they add many more than that every week, so check their site, too)
Digital Librarian a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
Neat New Stuff on the Net chosen by a librarian
Web-Savvy keeping current with web-based resources
Librarians' Resource Centre categories of resources are listed on the right
Scout Report librarians & educators select websites; you can also sign up to their alerting service to learn of new additions
Internet Public Library ask a librarian a reference question online; they have many lists of online resources (pathfinders), & much more--click on "Reference"
ZDNet Downloads lists freeware and shareware that you can download, such as Morpheus; can also sign up to their alerting service
Emazing they have great email newsletters--check out the "Technology" newsletters; I subscribe to "Download of the Day" and "Internet Tip of the Day"
Annals of Improbable Results another "peer-reviewed" journal where scientists, researchers, and other scholars perform psuedo research; they have many tidbits on their site & you can subscribe to their journal, too
AIR: SharewAIR hilarious though a few are a bit risque/crude, includes the Flaming Pop-Tart Experiment, the T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Turing Test, surgical separation of quintuplet Marshmallow Peeps (complete with numerous pictures), & directions on how to make Kitty Litter Cake
Journal of Polymorphous Perversity a humorous journal with psuedoresearch written by psychologists & psychiatrists; NOTE: Site down, but it seems that some of the issues have been compiled and sold in book form on Amazon
Isaacs D, Fitzgerald D. Seven alternatives to evidence based medicine. BMJ. 1999 Dec 18-25;319(7225):1618. Also read the Rapid Responses and Letters at the end of the article.
[Note: abridged Italian version, another abridged Italian version, yet another abridged Italian version, abridged Russian version, abridged Spanish version in a serious article; scroll down to Tabla 4, abridged French version scroll down towards end of webpage, full French translation from the French edition of EBM Journal, and Japanese version.]
Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain a short excerpt on how to torment your tour guide
Feline Reactions to Bearded Men from the Annals of Irreproducible Results
Periodic Table of Condiments: Table of Condiments that Periodically Go Bad also available in color
Understanding & Writing Scientific Research Papers humorous "glossary" of common phrases
Do You Want to Become an IEEE Author? (from http://www.lri.fr/~burelle/Docs/IEEE-author-FAQ.pdf) I knew there was a reason why I hate math!
Why God Never Received Tenure at Any University
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life
This multi-volume set not only covers each culture in its own country, but addresses the hyphenated respresentative in America, such as Arab-Americans. This encyclopedia is excellently suited for researching aspects of activities of daily living & what activities & facets of life are meaningful. Folklore, major holidays, rites of passage, cultural heritage, sports, entertainment, recreation, crafts, hobbies, & folk art are explored. Such information can offer culture-specific topics for reminiscing activities. The series also looks at interpersonal and family dynamics, clothing, food, education, religion, social problems, & other demographic information.
Turkish Games for Health & Recreation 4th printing of this book (written in the 60s and reviewed in the 80s); written in English, it describes popular games for adults & children
Annotated Bibliography of Cultures & Cultural Medicine by Tanya Feddern
Culture Shock! [name of country]
Each book explores many aspects of a culture. These books are a pleasure to read since they often recount personal stories and experiences.
"Our Community's Many Faces"
in the Community Close-Up section of the Sun-Sentinel newspaper, once a month
Every month, a different culture is profiled. The description is given a South Florida focus, with local demographic information, interviews with local residents, & descriptions of local representative businesses.
Sun-Sentinel's South Florida Multi-Cultural Directory
Omnibus articles on cultural customs
International Clothing & Accessories Calculator, Rules of Thumb & Size Charts, International Clothing Sizes, Japanese Sizes, & Russia & other countries important when working on ADLs with international patients--I'm still working on this subject & hope to find a better site soon
Web of Culture click on Worldsmart "Resource Center" & sign up for free for access to info on body language & gestures, etc.; also has a neat article: "Cross-Cultural Website Design"
The Worldwide Holiday & Festival Site click on a country or religion to get a listing of holidays
World Holidays 1999 national & international holidays are sorted by country
International Holidays 2000 international (& some national) holidays are sorted by day of month
Y Forum: The National Forum of People's Differences one can send in cultural questions & answers are posted; also has chat, an onsite search engine, & archives
U.S. Government Census Database: Venus click on "STF3B," enter in the city's or cities' zipcode(s) and get a detailed description of the city's inhabitants (# of different languages spoken, ethnicities are also decently broken down--Hispanic: Nicaraguan, Argentinian, Cuban, etc.); this is great information for learning about the community you will be practicing in
Say Hello to the World in 30 languages, has Real Audio samples, & is transliterated as well as in native script
Languages on the Web lots of language links
The Ultimate Collection of Newslinks US & International
The Paperboy online newspapers (US & International)
ESL textbook free and online
NewsDirectory find newspapers, TV stations, etc. online
There are listerv groups that focus on religion & disability. One example is at DisabledMuslimahs (DISBANDED) for Muslim women with a disability
Lakeshore Foundation (Christian) Religion & Disability Program "helping congregations become more welcoming & inclusive"