Child
Passenger Safety Transporting Children
with Special Health Care Needs
**Partners
of the Maryland Child Passenger Safety Board compiled the resources
provided in this section. A 4-hour Transporting Children with Special
Health Care Needs Workshop was presented in all 5 regions of the
state for child passenger safety advocates. These are the materials
that were provided for the participants. The PDF documents can be
viewed by using Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have Acrobat
Reader on your computer please click
here to download it.**
Child Passenger Safety Transporting Children with Special
Health Care Needs Resource Material:
Child Passenger Safety & OP Health Care Project Overview (Printable
PDF)
Child Passenger Safety Materials Checklist (Printable
PDF)
Maryland's Child Seat Belt Law effective
June 30, 2008 (Printable
PDF)
Maryland Law - June 30, 2008 update (Maryland Highway
Safety Office/MHSO)
with Booster 5-STEP test (Printable
PDF)
Glossary for Special Needs-
(Technology Assisted Care-Equipment, Mediations & Machines)
(Printable PDF)
Glossary for Special Needs-(Disabilities & Medical
Terminology) (Printable
PDF)
Manufacturers of Special Needs Seats and Products
Special Needs Car Safety Seats/ Restraints Product
Information (Printable PDF)
Courtesy
of American Academy of Pediatrics
Carseat
Compatibility Database
Automobile Restraints for Children with Special Needs
American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statements
for Children with Special Needs:
• Selecting
and Using the Most Appropriate Car Safety Seats for Growing Children:
Guidelines for Counseling Parents /AAP Policy Statement
• Safe Transportation
of Premature and Low Birth Weight Infants (RE9617)
•
Safe Transportation of Newborns at Hospital Discharge(RE9854)
•
Transporting Children with Special Health Care Needs (RE9852)
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Other Links:
The following are links to resources where you can obtain further
information on various special health care needs.
National Information Center for
Handicapped Children and Youth,
www.nichcy.org
American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA),
www.Aota.org
American Physical Therapy Association (APTA),
www.apta.org
Autism Society of America,
www.autism-society.org
Epilepsy Foundation-National Office,
www.efa.org
Hydrocephalus Association,
www.hydroassoc.org
Little People of America,
www.lpaonline.org
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation,
www.marchofdimes.com
National Down Syndrome Society
www.ndss.org
Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation,
www.oif.org
Spina Bifida Association of America,
www.sbaa.org
United Cerebral Palsy,
www.ucpa.org
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