If you don’t have a name yet, try these sites
 
Famous People With Disabilities


The Stuttering Foundation


 

 

Reference Books

American National Biography      REF 920 AME

Current Biography          REF 920 CUR  also Current Biography Online

Dictionary of American Biography            REF 920.073 DIC

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography      REF 920.03 MCG  also online in the Gale Virtual Library

 

Newspaper and Magazine Articles

EBSCOHost 

Look in either Biography Collection Complete or MasterFILE Premier

Use Last name, First name as a Subject

ProQuest   

Browse by Person

If you need to, use Interview or Feature as the Document Type


Some General Biography Web Sites

Biography 

Who2  


 Some General Health Web Sites

Medline Plus

NOAH (New York Online Access to health)  A - Z  

Yahoo:  Types of Disabilities   

 

Specific Conditions

 There are many organizations devoted to specific diseases and conditions such as:

 American Foundation for the Blind     

Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center