| | AblePlay.org ~ Consumer reviews of play products for children with special needs
This web site provides independent ratings and reviews of play products for children with special needs. Read what other parents and professionals think about the best and worst in adaptive toys!
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| | ACT Training Kit: "I Am A Leader: Youth Leadership Development Program"
This Pre-Transition and Transition Program is designed to be used by teachers, self-advocacy outreach efforts in schools or clubs, CIL transition programs and after school programs. A perfect resource for any group working with kids!
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| | Arc Greater Twin Cities
Arc Greater Twin Cities offers programs and services for people of all agew with mental retardation and related disabilities, as well as their families. Arc provides information and intensive one-to-one assistance; speaks for people with disabilitie...
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| | Arc Minnesota
Arc Minnesota provides advocacy and support for people with developmental disabilities and their families. A part of the national Arc and affiliated with local chapters, Arc Minnesota is a statewide, voluntary organization. They're dedicated to ens...
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| | Arc Resource Center
Looking for information? Can't find a touch-screen computer to use? Whether you're a person with a disability, a family member, or a professional, the Arc Resource Center is a great place to start. They have an assortment of books, videos, magazin...
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| | Autism Conferences Online!
Now you can participate in autism conferences from home! Autism Conferences Online is a video recording created specifically for Autism Today. It can be viewed on any computer connected to the internet, and each month a new world renowned exper...
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| | Basics of being a good renter
If you're looking into getting your own apartment and want to learn how to be a good renter, this may be the class for you. It's a six week course covering what landlords and fellow tenants will expect from you. If you want more information, see co...
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| | Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project
Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project is a four hour documentary radio show about the experiences of people with disabilities and their families since the beginning of the 19th century.
The Web site includes lots of downloadable mater...
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| | Brookes Publishing Company
This organization publishes books for adults who work with people who have disabilities. Books are centered around practical, research-based solutions to issues in the disability field: helping children develop essential life skills, providing effect...
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| | College of Direct Support - Great training at a great price!
The College of Direct Support is an interactive, Internet-based learning system for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs). The College offers "training opportunities that deepen and enhance your extremely important roles as caregivers, teachers, mento...
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| | Community Supports for People with Disabilities -- Two-year degree program
The Community Supports for People with Disabilities AAS degree and diploma majors are designed to train individuals to provide residential, vocational, or educational supports to people with disabilities in their communities. They emphasize building ...
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| | Cornucopia Of Disability Information (CODI)
CODI serves as a community resource for consumers and professionals by providing disability information in a wide variety of areas. CODI has two main functions. First, it is a huge internet directory of disability information. Through CODI, you'll ...
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| | DisABILITIESBOOKS
1) You Will Dream New Dreams: Inspiring Personal Stories by Parents of Children with Disabilities (Kensington, 2001) is a collection of 63 short essays by “veteran” parents of children with disabilities asked to write the stories they wish they had h...
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| | Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota
The Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota is a non-profit organization focused on enhancing the quality of life of those affected by seizures. An affiliate of the National Epilepsy Foundation, the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota provides programs and ser...
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| | Families and Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE)
The Families and Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE) project is a strong partnership that aims to improve the educational outcomes for children with disabilities. It links families, advocates, and self-advocates to communicate the new focus of...
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| | Family Village: A Global Community of Disability-Related Resources
Family Village is a global community that integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities, for their families, and for those that provide them services and support. ...
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| | FEAT of Minnesota (Families for Effective/Early AutismTreatment)
A non-profit organization of parents and professionals designed to help families with children who have been diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), including Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), or Asperger's Syndrome. FEAT off...
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| | Goodwill / Easter Seals -- Services for people with disabilities
This organization offers a wealth of job training and placement opportunities for adults who have disabilities or other social barriers. Goodwill/Easter Seals staff help people identify their employment goals, and they structure job training program...
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| | Higher Education and Students with Asperger Syndrome
This free workshop is for parents who have a child with a Asperger syndrome.
Students with Asperger syndrome may be qualified academically for higher education, but they may not succeed if they are not prepared. Come to this workshop to find out ...
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| | KEEY (Kids, Education, the Environment and You)
KEEY is a program that facilitates hands on horticultural learning for kids. With KEEY, kids help raise plants and improve the appearance of public areas such as parks, boulevards, and public gardens. Through such hands on learning, KEEY expands th...
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| | Leisure Education Assessments ~ Reach for Resources
This program focuses on assessment and placement of individuals into leisure activities by a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. Individual and group activities will focus on leisure awareness, social skills, decision making and leisure reso...
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| | Long Term Care Planning - Web Tool from the Federal Government
This web site is a national clearinghouse for long-term care info, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It serves to provide information and resources to help you and your family plan for future long-term care (LTC) needs.
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| | Making Your Case -- e-learning course
"Making Your Case" is a three-hour, self-directed course on how to communicate with public officials by effectively telling your personal story, writing a letter, providing testimony, and communicating in positive ways. Click the link below to review...
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| | Mental Health Association of Minnesota (MHAM)
The Mental Health Association of Minnesota is a nonprofit agency that responds to the needs of individuals with mental illnesses and their family members. MHAM offers services in advocacy and education, including: Individual advocacy case services, ...
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| | Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration (MAVA)
As the largest alliance of volunteer administrators in the state of Minnesota, MAVA is a powerful resource for the volunteer community. MAVA provides news, information, professional development and training opportunities to its members. MAVA is the l...
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| | Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (MCN) was founded in 1987 to meet the increasing information needs of nonprofits and to convene nonprofits to address issues facing the sector. MCN is the statewide association of more than 1,800 member nonprofit o...
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| | Minnesota State Council on Disability
The Minnesota State Council on Disability is an agency that advises, provides technical assistance, collaborates and advocates to expand opportunities, improve the quality of life and empower all persons with disabilities. Browse their services and p...
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| | MN Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
The Governor's Council's mission is to work toward assuring that people with developmental disabilities receive the necessary support to achieve increased independence, self determination, productivity, integration and inclusion into the community. ...
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| | National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care Information
Welcome to the National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care Information. This is a new web site developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide information and resources to help you and your family plan for future long-term care...
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| | National Institute for People with Disabilities
National Institute for People with Disabilities (also known as YAI) is an award-winning, nationally acclaimed network of not-for-profit health and human services agencies who directly serve New York State, providing a wide variety of support services...
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| | National Institute for Residential Resources and Training (NIRRT)
This organization, based in Saint Paul, offers a variety of cutting-edge trainings for disability professionals. Topics range from specific disabilities to broader issues, such as medications, legal matters, and risk management plans. Click below to ...
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| | National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP)
NSIP offers the following:
- Regional, state, and program training to AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, and National Senior Service Corps Programs
- Communication and information via the Corporation's Disabilitylist listserv
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| | PACER Center
The mission of PACER Center is to expand opportunities and enhance the quality of life of children and young adults with disabilities and their families, based on the concept of parents helping parents. PACER provides a wide range of services for ind...
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| | Partners in Education -- e-learning course
This is a six-hour, self-directed e-learning course to help parents of children with developmental disabilities better understand and maximize the benefits of special education services and inclusion for their children. For more information, visit th...
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| | Partners in Living - A free, innovative online course about disability
Partners in Living is a self-study course created to help people with developmental disabilities, as well as their families and friends, explore four important elements that, together, can help them create a meaningful life: Self-Determination, Famil...
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| | People with Disabilities In the Today's News
Read the latest news stories from around the world involving people with disabilities and disability issues. Find articles, options/editorials, audio and video, and more! This is a service of Yahoo.
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| | Pillsbury United Communities
This organization provides a wide range of human services for people with socio-economic disadvantages. It does this by operating over forty distinctive programs through a citywide network of six neighborhood centers. Pillsbury believes that helpin...
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| | Program Development Associates -- Ideas, Traning & Solutions for Professionals
This company provides a wealth of educational resources for today's disability professional. The catalog is packed with training videos, CD-ROMs, DVDs, books, and more. Use the link below to access PDA's web site, which features an online catalog. ...
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| | Recreation/Leisure assessments - Reach for Resources
This program focuses on assessment and placement of individuals into leisure activities by a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. Individual and group activities will focus on leisure awareness, social skills, decision making, and leisure res...
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| | Student Experience ~ In-home care
This organization provides in-home personal care by utilizing college students who are pursuing careers in healthcare, behavioral and social sciences, and who are looking for a "hands-on" learning opportunity. These students make wonderful Personal ...
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| | Sundays Energy
Energy costs are continuing to rise, and it is increasingly clear that people must change their patterns to ease pressure on the environment. The average citizen must find ways to minimize their use of resources as technology finds more sustainable f...
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| | Tasks Unlimited
Tasks Unlimited is a group of not-for-profit organizations committed to helping adults with serious and persistent mental illness and brain disorder improve their status by increasing self-sufficiency. Programs serve residents of Minnesota and are lo...
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| | The Council on Quality and Leadership
This extensive organization seeks to improve quality of life programs so that they are based on results - how people's lives are really affected. The Council on Quality and Leadership goes about this goal with a range of activities, including accred...
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| | Therapeutic Recreation Directory
Therapeutic Recreation is the provision of Treatment Services and the provision of Recreation Services to persons with illnesses or disabling conditions. The primary purposes of Treatment Services which are often referred to as Recreational Therapy,...
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| | Transition Plus Services, MPS
TPS is a Minneapolis Public School program for secondary students with disabilities, ages 18-21, who have not yet received their high school diploma. TPS provides a range of services at the school site and in the comunity that are designed to asist s...
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| | True Balance, PLLC
True Balance offers a variety of assessment, therapy, and education services, including the following:- Mental Health Assessment
- Autism Assessment and Consultation
- Workshops
- Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP)
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| | Video - Benefits of hiring people with disabilities
How to Improve ROI: Employment Solutions for Small Business
More than 18 million people with disabilities are currently employed in America’s workforce. Are you curious about how your small business can tap into these available resources and incre...
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| | West Metro Learning Connections Bloomington, Inc.
WMLC is a school of social skills development for children and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders and related conditions. The school combines therapeutic education, guided social experiences, training, coaching, and consultation to make auti...
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| | When Parents Ask for Help: Everyday Issues through an Asset-Building Lens
Curfews, homework, chores, dating, body image, conflicts, risky activities, fights, jobs, depression — parents can tackle these everyday issues and much more in this upbeat and positive resource. Reproducible articles speak directly to parents and ca...
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