New Jersey Dental Registry
Persons with Developmental Disabilities in New Jersey and their families can click here to identify dentists in their area who serve persons with developmental disabilities.  Dentists can also enter the site to complete a survey and to have the option of being included in this publicly accessible database of dentists in NJ who serve persons with developmental disabilities.

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Alliance for Disability in Health Care Education
(the “Matheny Roundtable” group)
Click here to enter the password-protected Alliance website.

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Disabilityhealth.org is a service of the Matheny Institute for Research in Developmental Disabilities, Matheny Medical and Educational Center and was constructed with funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education, grant # H133G010153.

Matheny's website

NIDRR's website

Disabilityhealth.org is intended to improve the readiness of health care students and professionals to serve persons who have cerebral palsy, spina bifida, Down syndrome, or other developmental disorders.

Multimedia Presentations

The following CD-ROM presentations were developed with funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to train medical students to work appropriately and effectively with patients who have developmental disabilities.  They can be requested from the Matheny Institute for Research in Developmental Disabilities using the contact information at the bottom of this page.

1.      The Patient As Partner - The Clinical Interview With Persons Who Have Developmental Disabilities is a self-running multimedia lesson providing strategies for working effectively with patients who have developmental disabilities, particularly those who have communication deficits.

2.      Primary Developmental Disorders and Their Associated Conditions offers a self-paced tour through basic information about cerebral palsy, spina bifida, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Down syndrome, and autism/pervasive developmental disorders. A particular emphasis is placed on common associated clinical conditions.

All text in the presentations is accompanied by voice narration to maximize accessibility.

Downloadable Documents

The following downloadable documents are resources for health care educators who are incorporating information about developmental disabilities into their training programs.

1. Basic information about some primary developmental disorders and their associated conditions;
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2. Strategies for conducting clinical interviews with patients who have deficits in verbal communication;
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3. An introduction to alternative and augmentative communication; and
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4.      Two standardized patient scenarios and supporting documents. (These scenarios were developed as part of a program at the Matheny School and Hospital, a UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School affiliate, in which third year medical students are asked to engage in a simulated clinical encounter with trained standardized patients who have cerebral palsy and who are nonverbal.)
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To request any of the above materials, contact:

Ken Robey, Ph.D., Director
Matheny Institute for Research in Developmental Disabilities
Matheny Medical and Educational Center
PO Box 339
Peapack, NJ 07977

research@matheny.org

908-234-0011, ext 716