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Disability World Links: Families and Children
  • Adaptive Parenting Equipment - This online, illustrated "idea book" about equipment for adaptive parenting was developed by Through the Looking Glass and is housed on the NCDRR web site.
  • Child Rights Information Network - The site of a group of NGOs advocating for children all over the world; disability is one of about 15 topics covered regularly.
  • Disabled Parents Network - Disabled Parents Network is a national organisation (U.K.) of and for disabled people who are parents or who hope to become parents, and their families, friends and supporters.
  • Family Voices - A national grassroots network of families advocates for heath care services for children with special health care needs
  • Inclusion Research Institute - The IRI disseminates educational & technological innovations enabling independence of people with disabilities in schools, community & employment.
  • Los Pipitos - Somos una Asociación socio-voluntaria de padres, madres, familiares y amigos de los niños, niñas y jóvenes con deficiencia y/o disCapacidad. Nos brindamos apoyo y solidaridad mutua y trabajamos para que nuestros hijos e hijas alcancen su pleno desarrollo y felicidad en una sociedad con igualdad de oportunidades.
  • Parents for Inclusion - The web site for a U.K. organization of "parents helping parents so that disabled children can learn, make friends and have a voice in ordinary school and throughout life."
  • Paso a Paso - The website of the Paso a Paso Foundation, formed in 1991 by a group of parents in Venezuala. The site offers a great amount of information in Spanish concerning the improvement of lives of children with special needs and their families. It also offers services and publications, as well as a bimonthly bulletin.
  • Through the Looking Glass - A center whose mission is to "create, demonstrate and encourage non-pathological and empowering resources and model early intervention services for families with disability issues in parent or child which integrate expertise derived from personal disability experience and disability culture."
  • ARCH National Respite Locator - The National Respite Locator Service helps parents, caregivers, and professionals find respite services in their state and local area to match their specific needs. The service is also useful when a family travels or must move to another state.

  

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