Here you will find a large variety of medical resources for parenting your Special Needs children. You will find Wish foundations, air flight charities, Lyme Disease, Epilepsy, bronchitis, heart defects, asthma, ear infections, other medical sites, & parent's pages

The Sunshine Foundation Dream Makers
Grants a child with rare diseases and disorders
to Disney World, while having fun at their place

Make-A-Wish
A foundation that offers children with terminal
illnesses the reality of their wishes and dreams

The Wishing Well Foundation USA
A non-profit national organization head quartered
in New Orleans. The Foundation's goal is to bring
wishes to children with a life threatening illnesses

The Wishing Star Foundation
The Wishing Star Foundation is a non-profit
organization that grants wishes to children
with a terminal disease in East WA. & Idaho

BraveKids.org
Our team is dedicated to helping children
their families & health care professionals
with chronic, life-threatening illnesses in
the San Francisco, Seattle, & LA regions

Brent Eley Foundation
Brent Eley Foundation is a non-profit public
charity, that provides emergency travel funds
for children, as their medical status permits,
supports the pediatric oncology research at
The Children's Hospital of Denver, Colorado

The Brittany Miller Foundation
The Brittany Miller Foundation funds are to
be used to defray travel, lodging, food and
the miscellaneous expenses associated with
hospital visits and or other treatments in NY
New Jersey, Connecticut or is approved by
the majority vote of the Board of Directors

First Hand Foundation
The First Hand provides grants and
the funding to seriously ill children.

Lili Claire Foundation
Los Angeles based organization whose
mission provides individuals living with
Williams Syndrome and other birth defects
support resources for them & the families

Making Headway Foundation Inc
Making Headway Foundation Inc is a nonprofit
organization Dedicated to the Care, the Comfort,
and the Cure of children with Brain, Spinal Cord
Tumors & catastrophic Neurological Illnesses

Angel flights
Will provide free air transportation up to 1,500 air
miles for those who are in need medical treatment

Children's Flight of Hope, Inc
Non-profit organization that will provide free air
transportation to and from a medical facility for
treatment to children with critical medical needs

The Wings for Children, Inc
Provides free air transportation to children & the
family with chronic and life threatening illnesses

Northwoods Air Life Line
Non-profit organization who help people obtain
medical assistance that is unavailable to them in
the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to destinations
in Indiana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois, Ohio & the low area regions in Michigan

Pilots for Christ
Provides non-ambulatory patients who don't require
an in-flight medical treatment, for relatives who need
to visit with a seriously ill patient out of area via air

Flights for Life
Provides a round-trip air transportation for medical
needy individuals who must travel to and from their
residence for a non-emergency medical treatment

Corporate Angel Network
Will arrange for free air transporatation for cancer
patients travelling to and from medical treatments

Mercy Medical Airlift
Provides charitable free long distance medical air
transport for all medical needy, low-income patients
ensuring access to long distant specialized facilities

Volunteer Pilots Association
Provides free air travel for needy people who need
a necessary medical treatment that is out of area

In fact in December 2002 my daughter Ashly and I took an Angel Flight from Oregon to California, in order to fly to Cedars Sinai in order to see the geneticist who was finally able to diagnose Ashly's condition. One of the pilots even taught me how to fly! the plane, all by myself. I Thought the pilots we had were great

Anatomical Tour Of The Ear
A very detailed explanation of
the ear anatomy with pictures

Earache in Children
What You Should Know

Understanding your hearing
test for hearing loss

Acute Bronchitis

Bacterial Pneumonia

Bronchiolitis and Your Child

Easing the Pain of a Sore Throat

Scoop on Strep throat

Sign and Symptoms

Asthma Medicines

Asthma Treatments for Children
information on using bronchodilators, inhalers,
and anti-inflammatory preventative medicines

Early Warning Signals:Asthma

Asthma Attack

Using a nebulizer

Asthma in Children - Keep Kids Healthy

Asthma Prevention for Children
information on how to minimize contact with common
allergens, such as dust and mold. that triggers asthma

Asthma Guidelines for Young Children
Asthma treatment guidelines for managing infants &
younger children who have acute or chronic asthma

Asthma Control Medications for Children and Adults

When to Suspect Lyme

LymeNet Advanced Topics in Lyme Disease

Epilepsy/Seizures Types

Seizure Disorder In Childhood

Complex Partial Seizures from Neurology

Endocarditis or Dental
Work Prophylaxis

Heart murmurs and your child

Immunizations for Children
With Heart Problems

Prepare for Surgery

Traveling with a
Child with a Heart Problem

GI Q&A Page 2

Congestion of the Spleen

Splenomegaly

Lab Test Interpretation
A very detailed easy to read and understand site
that Explains commonly ordered clinical lab tests

What Does My Blood Test Mean

ABTA's Dictionary for Brain Tumor Patients
American Brain Tumor Association

Digestive Diseases Dictionary

Glossary of eye and vision terms

Traumatic Brain Injury Glossary of Terms
Traumatic Brain Injury Resource Guide

The Best Medical Resources on the Web

Hardin MD: The Medical Information Hub

Health Hippo
collection of links to laws, government
and to policies related to health care

Health-related Linkage Library

KinderStart Health, Medical Dental

Jeff Flax's Medical Resources

ORPHANET Database

Tenny's Medical Page

Our Mischievous Ones

Special Needs Angels

You will find specific disease related organizations
dwarfism, musculoskeletal, cartilage, bone abnormality
metabolic disorders, enzyme therapy and more at our
Loads of medical links and Resources

For medical search engines and Portals, online
medical libraries, journals (Pubmed, Hon, NLM
Medline) and misc.health web pages and sites
Ashly's World of med search links

Here, you will find information and resources
for special education, learning disabilities
speech disorders, and federal disability laws
Special Education Links

Here is a large variety of parent support links
to health message boards, parent-to-parent
match ups, organizations, support groups
Parent Support Links

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daughter Ashly, who has Geleophysic
Dysplasia believed to be a different
Metabolic Lysosomal storage disorder

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