Special Education Non-Profit Resources

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Providing Nationwide Services

Center for Learning Disabilities--Overland Park, KS

Devereux Life Management Services --lifetime care management solutions to families with special needs, including mental retardation, developmental or cognitive disability

The Federation for Children with Special Needs--Boston, MA

Special Kids Fund -- conducts fundraising projects to benefit organizations serving special needs and at-risk youth

The LEARN Center of the Illinois Masonic Medical Center

The International Dyslexia Association (formerly known as the Orton Dyslexia Society).

National Parent to Parent Support & Information System

Parents Helping Parents--the Santa Clara, CA, Family Resource Center

The Riggs Institute--referrals and information about The Writing Road to Reading/ Spalding method

Teamwork Wins, LTD.--connecting children with Invisible Challenges and practitioners who provide quality services to them via Conferences, Workshops, Seminars and Camps

The Schwab Foundation for Learning--informational web site and phone consultations

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Arizona

PIMA Prevention Partnership-- A substance abuse prevention program for people with disabilities

Arkansas

Little Rock--Easter Seal Society Technology Resource Center
Bryant--S.U.P.O.R.T., Behavioral Health Counseling & Consultation

California

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  Melvin-Smith Learning Centers, with centers serving Northern California
Fresno--Exceptional Parents Unlimited
Garden Grove--Comfort Connection/ Family Resource Center
Los Angeles--Etta Israel Center
Napa--Moving Forward, a postsecondary program for young adults with learning differences
Sacramento
Santa Clara--Parents Helping Parents, Inc.
San Mateo --Schwab Foundation for Learning

Colorado

Colorado Springs-- PEAK Parent Center, Inc.

District of Columbia --

DC--Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment (COPE)

Georgia -- National Parent to Parent Support & Information System

Illinois -- Reading and Learning Lab, DePaul University, Chicago

Indiana-- Indiana Parent Information Network

Iowa -- Parent Educator Connection

Kansas

Families Together, the Parent Training and Information Center for Kansas
Center for Learning Disabilities

Louisiana-- Families Helping Families, The Parent Training & Information Center for Louisiana

Massachusetts-- Federation for Children with Special Needs, Boston

Michigan

United Cerebral Palsy Association of Metropolitan Detroit
Gerstmann Syndrome Support Network, a member of the Michigan Parents Coalition

Minnesota-- PACER Center

Missouri

Missouri Parents Act-- the Statewide Parent Training and Information Center
The Network: Disability Advocacy & Support Network

Nevada

Nevada Parent Network
Nevada P.E.P.

New Hampshire

Education-A-Must, Inc., a non-profit advocacy organization
Monadnock Developmental Services, Inc.
Greater Laconia Community Services, Inc.

New Jersey

Family Support Center of New Jersey
Statewide Parent Advocacy Network of New Jersey

New York

Parent to Parent of New York State--offering statewide services.
Parent Network--Parent Training and Information Center for NY state (except New York City)
YAI/ National Institute for People with Disabilities

North Carolina

The Family Support Network of North Carolina
Parents Together

North Dakota-- Pathfinder Family Center

Oklahoma--

Oklahoma City--PRO-Oklahoma, Parent Training & Information Center
Oklahoma City--Department of Human Services, programs for families with special needs

Oregon-- The Riggs Institute-- referrals and information about the Spalding reading method

Pennsylvania--

The Children's Institute-- inpatient and outpatient programs
Parents Exchange--Information, referrals, and advocacy services

Teamwork Wins, LTD.--connecting children with Invisible Challenges and practitioners who provide quality services to them via Conferences, Workshops, Seminars and Camps. A Pennsylvania Act 48 provider.

South Carolina

Family Connection of South Carolina, Inc.

South Dakota-- South Dakota Parent Connection

Tennessee

The Star Center--Special Technology Access Resource Center
Boling Center for Developmental Disabilties--at the University of Tennessee

Texas-- Partners Resource Network--the statewide Parent Training and Information Center.

Utah-- Utah Parent Center-- for parents of children with special needs.

Vermont--

Vermont I-TEAM
Stern Center for Language and Learning

Virginia

Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center (PEATC)
PADDA--People with Attentional & Developmental Disabilities Association

Washington

NATHHAN News-- providing support to special needs homeschooling families
Washington PAVE, Tacoma

West Virginia --West Virginia Parent Training and Information