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Our Kids
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Information and support for parents and caregivers of children with special needs. Links to resources and affiliated web sites.
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Parents Helping Parents
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Helping children with special needs receive the love, hope, respect and services they need to achieve their full potential by strengthening their families and the professionals who serve them.
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ICan Online
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ICan Online is a well organized site that offers a tremendous amount of information to the disabled community.
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Ideal Lives
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Practical tips and web resources for special needs parents, specialized in free resources and personalized solutions for families, and the teachers and professionals who support them.
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Parents with Disabilities Online
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Information, support and products for parents who have disabilities.
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Impact of a Handicapped Child on the Family
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From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute and meant for teachers, but has information for parents too.
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The Learning Disabled Child and the Home
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Discusses various issues such as fathers, siblings, discipline.
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Partners Resource Network
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Purpose is to empower parents of children and youth with disabilities in their roles as parents, decision makers, and advocates for their children.
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Single Parent Central - Childcare & Children with Disabilities
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An overview of the accommodations childcare centers and home-based centers must make for disabled children under the American With Disabilities Act.
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Parent Training and Information Centers by State
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Programs funded by the Office of Special Education Programs in the US Department of Education to help provide training and information to meet the needs of parents of children with disabilities living in the area served by the center.
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Eastern Los Angeles Regional Center Parents Network
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Parents of developmentally delayed children who are clients of the Easter Los Angeles Regional Center.
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Parenting Toolbox
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Provides articles with tips and information, as well as links to specific threads in the accompanying message boards.
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About Parenting Special Needs
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The starting place for exploring parenting special needs, from About.com.
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Americans With Disabilities Act Information
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Americans With Disabilities Act Information
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Ten Commandments of Etiquette
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The Empowerment Zone offers tips for communicating with those who have special needs.
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Special Families Guide
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Articles and answers to questions from Robert Naseef, Ph.D. on parenting a child with a disability.
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Disabled Parents Network
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A UK based organisation of disabled people who are parents or who hope to become parents, their families and allies.
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Child Care and the ADA
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Child care centers rather privately or publicly operated must conform to ADA standards in order to meet the needs of special children.
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Special Needs
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Support site for the disabled, chronically ill, and the people who care for them.
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Hints for Mothers of Many Children
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Discusses general issues but also a section of disabled children and their siblings.
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About Special Education
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A resource for parents, teachers, and students.
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Westchester ARC
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We serve people who have developmental disabilities and their families.
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SNAP
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SNAP wants to promote awareness and acceptance of children with special needs, especially the physically challenged.
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Parenting From the Heart
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A twice weekly newsletter devoted to all who are touched by children with special needs.
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The Arc's Q&A on Child Care
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Child Care Settings and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Know your rights.
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Parent Pals.com
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Special education website focusing on parent and professional support for special needs children. Directory of articles and links contributed by parents and professionals.
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Life's Crooked Path
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A mother's true story about parenting a child with disabilities.
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Parents of a Child with Special Needs
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Links to resources and information for caregivers and parents of children with special needs.
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Special Mommy Chronicles
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"Special Mommy Chronicles" is a weekly column by a Special Needs mom to Special Needs parents.
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Casa Center - Continuing Advancement for Special Adults
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This site is for special needs children as adults.
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Mothers From Hell 2
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Facing disability issues with combustable humor & advocating for disability rights! MFH2 is a national group offering more support than a 44DD underwire and more empowerment than a tanker full of caffeine, chocolate & Viagra!
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The Prevention News
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Newsletter published by Peter Leibert for Arc-California chapters and their members, focusing on issues related to the prevention of mental retardation and other disabilities.
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Mothers with Attitude
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Humor and help for adoptive moms, special-needs moms, any old moms at all.
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TRI Online! Parent Advocacy
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A place for information and resources for parents of children with disabilities, education, transition and school-to-work issues.
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PSP (Parents Supporting Parents)
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Support group where parents of children with special needs support other parents with special needs children,organise fun days and trips for these children and their siblings. We invite speakers to meetings in the past these have included experts from many different fields.
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Parenting the Spirited Child
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Classes for parents of a 3-7 year old who is spirited, oppositional, willful, aggressive, angry, or ADHD will want to learn about this exceptional class.
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Special People, Special Planning
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Special People, Special Planning is a special needs planning book on how to create a lifelong plan for special needs children and a disabled family member.
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Angels Gather Here
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Family raising 3 biological children,7 medically fragile adopted children and fostered 225.
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Maggy Larsen Books
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Encouragement for those raising difficult and challenged children.
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Bright Tots
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Offers information on autism, pdd and aspergers.
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Creative Perspectives, a different look at autism
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Providing service to parents and families to help them with special needs autistic children. Offers programs to assist the children and parents to learn.
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Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs
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The Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center cares for children and young adults with significant chronic illness.
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Helping Your Special Needs Child
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Authors Sandy Tovray and Maria Wilson-Portuondo, both parents of special needs children, share their experiences and offer solid advice in Helping Your Special Needs Child.
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Parents Exchange
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An information, referral, and advocacy service for parents and caregivers of children with disabilities and professionals who work with our families.
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Tamarack Reading Pages
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A commercial site that offers reading books for beginning readers with special needs. A sight word reading system is designed to improve reading skills.
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The Little Prince
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Articles, resources, and links to therapists and treatment programs.
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About Potty Training Children with Special Needs
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Learn about potty training children with special needs, such as autism and down syndrome, including signs of readiness and how to avoid resistance.
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About Stress in Childhood
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Children experience stress just as adults do. But sometimes, its manifestations are different.
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Angels In Care
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A place for children who are hurting emotionally, mentally or physically in which they can find love, hope, peace and joy within themselves and each other.
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The Bible's Way to Victory over ADHD and Other Childhood Challenges
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This free online book provides sound answers on preventing and overcoming behavioral, emotional and learning problems, including ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder), Conduct Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome.
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Special Needs News
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News and information of interest to families of children and adults with special needs in the Security, Widefield, Fountain, and Colorado Springs, Colorado area.
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Our Kids
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Information and support for parents and caregivers of children with special needs.
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Parenting Toolbox
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Provides articles with tips and helpful information, as well as links to specific threads in the accompanying message boards.
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Parents with Disabilities online
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Information, support and resources for parents with disabilities, from books to webresources and tips for adaptable parenting products.
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Child Care Settings and the Americans with Disabilities Act
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The ADA affords children with mental or physical disabilities the opportunity to participate in all activities and opportunities of community life.
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Westchester ARC
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Describes services to people with disabilities; also provides information about events, publications, and lobbying.
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Parents Helping Parents
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Helps children with special needs receive the love, hope, respect and services they need by strengthening their families and the professionals who serve them.
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Prevention News
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This publication is for Arc-California chapters and their members. It communicates issues related to the prevention of mental retardation and other disabilities.
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NATional cHallenged Homeschoolers Associated Network (NATHHAN)
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Christian homeschooling for challenged or disabled children. Articles, lending library, newsletter, and links.
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iCanOnline
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iCanOnline brings together content, community and resources in one place that is easy to navigate and welcomes your input. This site is for individuals of all ages; however, it includes many resources relating to child and youth.
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Our-Kids
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Our-Kids is a "Family" of parents, caregivers and others who are working with children with physical and/or mental disabilities and delays. We call the list "Our-Kids". While it isn't exactingly descriptive, it avoids the pitfalls of labeling our kids anything but what they most certainly are: The wonderful little people in our lives.
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