* This is the place for sharing information . . . it is under continuing development.
The listings below are currently grouped as follows:
(1) BLIND: Local Listing
(2) BLIND: National Listing
(3) BLIND: International Listing
(4) PSYCH: Local Listing
(5) PSYCH: National Listing
(6) HANDI: Local Listing
(7) HANDI: National Listing
(8) DEAF: Local Listing
(9) DEAF: National Listing
(10) PALSY: Local Listing
(11) PALSY: National Listing
(12) HEAR: Local Listing
(13) HEAR: National Listing
(14) AUTISM: Helpful Information
(15) Special Library BOOKS:
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information in the following order:
Name of the service or organization
Internet URL, if known
Telephone number(s)
Brief description of service
* If doing a manual search, it is best to advance to the numbered
group or groups that contain information categories being researched.
The Groups and their listings start here.
(1) BLIND: Local Listing
Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind
202-462-2900
Provides instruction, services and products for people who are blind or
have low vision in the Greater Washington area.
Family Service Foundation
301-459-2121
Statewide organization offering counseling, psychiatric services, all
problems and ages. Specialized treatment, residential, day habilitation
for hearing, deaf, deaf-blind, developmentally challenged. Mon.- Sat. hours.
Lions Of District 22-C Eye Bank And Research Foundation
301-577-7800
Pursuing the goal of sight restoration and blindness prevention by
providing eye tissue for transplantation, research and education, free
health screening and financial assistance.
Maryland Society for Sight
410-243-2020
Enables 30,000 Marylanders annually to avoid needless blindness from
eye disease and injury through eye screenings, eye examinations, and
consumer eye health and safety information.
Maryland Therapeutic Horsemanship Association, Inc.
410-740-8791
Provides specialized programs teaching horseback riding to children and
adults who are physically challenged, mentally retarded, emotionally
disturbed, deaf or blind, serving Central Maryland.
Metropolitan Washington Ear
301-681-6636
Free service provides readings from newspapers, magazines, and novels
via closed-circuit radio and a Dial-in service for the blind and
print-handicapped.
Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington
202-234-1010
Vision screening for children, glaucoma screening for adults, free eye
care for poor and homeless, support groups for elderly visually impaired,
education on eye health.
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic of Metropolitan Washington
202-244-8990
RFB&D provides recorded textbooks at all academic levels to students
who have visual, perceptual, or physical disabilities. Most work is
performed by volunteers.
The Maryland School for the Blind
410-444-5000
Free day, residential, outreach education and therapy services for ages
0-21, blind or visually impaired, including multi-disabled, Maryland
students.
Volunteers for the Visually Handicapped
301-589-0894
Provides Braille and mobility instruction, counsels blind adults, trains
volunteer readers/shoppers; sells assertive devices for the visually
impaired, and provides transportation to monthly activities.
York County Blind Center
717-848-1690
Provides sheltered employment, rehabilitation teaching, orientation and
mobility, recreation, radio reading service, low vision clinic, preschool
and adult vision screening, social services and support.
(2) BLIND: National Listing
American Council of the Blind
www.acb.org
800-424-8666
Provides blind people scholarships, legal assistance, crisis support,
a free monthly Braille magazine; and referrals to education,
rehabilitation, jobs, recreation, and adaptive aids services.
American Foundation for the Blind
www.charities.org/afb.html
800-232-5463 - Promotes Braille literacy, develops training materials for
teachers of deaf-blind children, monitors Americans with Disabilities
Act, evaluates services for blind and visually impaired people.
Blind Children and Adults Action Fund of America
410-659-9315
Help the blind attain independence with Braille newspapers, books and
calendars. Allow blind children to read along with sighted parents
using our braille/print books.
Blind Children's Fund
www.blindchildrensfund.org
517-333-1725
Providing parents and professionals information, materials, and resources
that help them successfully teach and nurture blind, visually and
multi-impaired infants and children.
Blind Federation of America
www.nfb.org
410-659-9314
Teaches the sight impaired self-reliance through new technology, Braille
and recorded publications. BFA also provides scholarships, employment
assistance and civil rights protection.
BlindSkills
www.teleport.com/~blindskl
800-860-4224
Where blind children and visually impaired adults get help with coping
and adaptive techniques via a toll-free number and a quarterly publication,
DIALOGUE.
Blinded American Veterans Foundation
www.bva.org
800-242-0161
Insuring, through volunteerism (free), that blinded and sensory disabled
veterans attain their maximum potential through research, rehabilitation
and re-employment services.
Blinded Veterans Association
www.bva.org
800-669-7079
Congressionally chartered to serve blinded veterans. Enhances employment
opportunities, assists in procuring benefits offered by public and private
agencies, provides educational information and scholarships.
Christian Eye Ministry, Inc.
909-599-8955
Saving and restoring sight to the neglected blind in the Third World,
particularly children. Training and enabling local medical personnel to
perform sight saving surgeries.
Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust
www.dav.org
606-441-7300
Your gift provides food, clothing and shelter to homeless veterans,
transportation to medical facilities, and counseling and rehabilitation
for amputee, blind, and severely disabled veterans.
Disabled Childrens Relief Fund
516-377-1605
Crippled, blind, deaf, injured, developmentally delayed, and other
children receive medical equipment, wheelchairs, braces, hearing aids,
and therapy especially when they have no health insurance.
Eye and Tissue Banks International
800-756-4824
You will make a blind person see. TBI eye banks provide eye tissue for
sight restoring corneal transplants and research. Go ahead. Make a
miracle.
Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation
860-243-5200
Raises and trains German shepherd guide dogs to be placed with persons
who are blind to increase their independence and freedom.
Foundation Fighting Blindness
www.blindness.org
800-683-5555
Supports clinical and basic eye research to cure retinal degenerative
diseases, including RP and Macular Degeneration, educates the public
and serves as an informational clearinghouse.
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind (R)
371 East Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown, NY 11787 USA
www.guidedog.org
Phone: (631) 930-9091
(800) 548-4337 (ext. 1191)
Fax: (631) 361-5192
More than eyes for a blind person, a guide dog provides independence,
security, and companionship. Help us breed, train, and give guide dogs
without charge.
Guide Dogs of America
www.iam160.com
818-362-5834
Guide dogs and training are given free-of-charge to blind individuals
throughout the United States and Canada, providing mobility,
independence and freedom with dignity.
Guiding Eyes for the Blind
www.guiding-eyes.org
914-245-4024
Since 1956, has been breeding, raising and training guide dogs for
legally blind individuals, including those with multiple disabilities.
Lions Clubs International Foundation
www.lionsclubs.org
630-571-5466
Supports volunteer community programs worldwide in rehabilitation/
vocational training, diabetes research, drug abuse prevention; with
special emphasis on blindness prevention and sight restoration.
Lions World Services for the Blind
501-664-7100
A comprehensive rehabilitation center for blind adults providing
counseling, training in independent living and mobility skills,
vocational evaluation, and high quality marketable job skills.
Lutheran Braille Workers, Inc.
909-795-8977
Through a network of 7000 volunteers, braille and large print materials
are produced and given free to the blind and visually handicapped
throughout the world.
National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving the
Blind and Visually Handicapped 212-683-5068 - Develops national
standards and administers the accreditation program for schools and
rehabilitation agencies serving children and adults who are blind or
visually impaired.
Prevent Blindness America
www.prevent-blindness.org
800-331-2020
Fights sight loss through free info-line, adult and children's
vision screenings, workplace, home and sports eye safety programs
and medical research.
Project ORBIS International
800-672-4787
Flies a jet-based teaching eye hospital around the world, training
doctors and nurses while restoring sight to thousands.
Research to Prevent Blindness
800-621-0026
Is the world's leading voluntary organization supporting scientific
research into the causes, cure and prevention of all blinding diseases.
Retinitis Pigmentosa International
800-Fight RP
Mission is two-fold: 1) To raise funds for the research and 2) To
maintain our human service programs for the blind and visually impaired.
SEVA Foundation
www.seva.org
800-223-7382
Seva's work: treatment and prevention of blindness in India, Nepal,
and Tibet; community development in Guatemala and Mexico; diabetes
treatment for Native Americans on reservations.
Seeing Eye, Inc.
www.seeingeye.org
201-539-4425
Is a philanthropy which provides trained dog guides to blind people.
Southeastern Guide Dogs
www.guidedogs.org
941-729-5665
Our guide dogs are humanely trained and provided free of charge to
blind individuals, so they may travel with independence, safety, and
dignity.
The Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation
www.charities.org/drwf.html
202-298-9211
Scientific research into treatments and cure of diabetes. Conducts
screenings, education programs to save lives from blindness, kidney
failure, amputations. Publishes The Diabetes Wellness Letter.
United States Association for Blind Athletes
www.usa.net/~usaba
719-630-0422
Independence and self-confidence within the blind community. Nationwide
sports and leadership programs provide blind youth equal training and
competition programs as their sighted peers.
(3) BLIND: International Listing
Helen Keller International
800-638-8079
Works in developing nations to treat and prevent nutritional blindness,
onchocerciasis, cataracts and trachoma and to educate and rehabilitate
the incurably blind.
International Eye Foundation
800-638-8079
Saving sight worldwide. Programs to control vitamin A deficiency,
"river blindness," cataracts and infections. Provides local health
worker training, technology transfer, eye surgery, equipment, medicines.
(4) PSYCH: Local Listing
AIDS Program of Whitman-Walker Clinic,
202-797-3500
Provides vital HIV/AIDS services, including education/prevention,
medical, dental, housing, psychosocial and legal. Serves more
than two of three area residents living with AIDS.
Anchor Mental Health Association, Inc.
202-635-5900
Rehabilitates mentally ill people. Provides housing, food,
clothing, medical and psychiatric treatment, job skills training and
placement to help them achieve independent, productive lives.
Arundel Lodge, Inc.
410-841-6131
Arundel Lodge's Psychiatric rehabilitation Program deal with reduction
of homelessness, community crisis management, and independent living
skills for the chronic mentally ill population in Anne Arundel County.
Barney Neighborhood House
202-939-9000
Educational, social, recreational, counseling services (Wards I and VI)
youth, adults, senior citizens. Psychosocial program for mentally
challenged adults.
Bell Socialization Services
717-848-5767
Provides psycho-social rehabilitation services to persons with mental
health or mental retardation disabilities; also operates a 30-day
emergency shelter for homeless families.
Birthright of Montgomery County
301-946-3339
Provide pregnancy tests, maternity assistance, baby clothes, advice
on medical help and social services. Discuss social relationships
and the physical and psychological dangers of abortion.
Boys Home Society, Inc.
410-669-7955
Boys Home provides care for abused and neglected male children 9-13
years of age. Our services include social work, education,
recreation and psychological consultation.
CHI Centers, Inc.
301-445-3350
Services for developmental disabilities children/adults; special
education including physical/occupational/speech therapies;
psychological/vocational evaluations/training; employment/residential
services; habitation/recreation program; transportation.
CPC Health (formerly Community Psychiatric Clinic, Inc.)
301-424-8300
Provides expert and comprehensive mental health services for persons
of all ages and range of needs: hospital, residential, outpatient,
rehabilitation treatment; and community outreach programs.
Calvary Women's Shelter, Inc.
202-783-6651
Provides emergency shelter and transitional services, including case
management, a Life Skills program and psychiatric services for 25
homeless women in Washington DC.
City Lights School, Inc.
202-832-4366
City Lights is a psychoeducational Day Treatment Program. The program
provides rehabilitation services that will help youth transition back to
public/private school, and to become productive members of their
community.
Community Council for the Homeless at Friendship Place (CCH/FP)
202-364-1419
Helping homeless neighbors in upper northwest Washington rebuild their
lives through outreach, health care, psychiatric and substance abuse
counseling, case management, job referrals and housing.
Delaware Guidance Services for Children & Youth, Inc.
302-652-3948
Provides statewide Mental Health Services for young people and families.
Services include individual, family, and group therapies, medication
treatment, psychiatric and psychological evaluation.
Edgemeade - Maryland Center for Youth and Family Development, Inc.
301-888-1330
Edgemeade provides special education, residential, psychiatric, medical
and family services to Maryland and D.C. adolescents who are emotionally
disturbed and learning disabled.
Family Life Center
410-997-3557
The Family Life Center provides individual and family counseling Therapy
and Psychiatry. Group Therapy in specialty areas such as women, persons
with HIV, Parenting.
Family Service Foundation
301-459-2121
Statewide organization offering counseling, psychiatric services, all
problems and ages. Specialized treatment, residential, day habilitation
for hearing, deaf, deaf-blind, developmentally challenged. Mon.-Sat.
hours.
Family Services of Kent County, Inc.
410-778-2341
Family and individual counseling, including marital, stress and work
related problems of non-psychiatric nature.
Geriatric Services of Delaware
302-658-6744
Provides support to elderly-disabled Delawareans. Services include Meals
On Wheels, Foster Care, Nursing, homemaker/housekeeping services,
telephone reassurance, psychiatric nursing, medical transportation.
Joseph Richey House, Inc.
410-523-2150
A licensed, Medicare certified, residential and home care hospice
providing medical care, expert pain control, symptom relief, psychosocial
and pastoral care.
Lab School of Washington, The
202-965-6600
We offer comprehensive educational services for the learning disabled
through a day school, adult night school, college and career counseling,
tutoring, psychological services, occupational and speech therapy.
Maryland Lupus Foundation
410-337-9000
Provides education and psychosocial support to lupus patients and their
families, increases the public's awareness of lupus, and funds clinical
and basic scientific lupus research.
Mobile Medical Care, Inc.
301-460-3535
Provides outpatient medical and therapeutic care to low-income persons
utilizing volunteer doctors, nurses, psychologists, and psychiatrists.
No patients are turned away.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services
703-698-1655
We offer comprehensive, individualized services to people with serious
mental illness, including treatment, counseling, return to work and
substance abuse services, utilizing community resources.
Southern Maryland Community Network, Inc.
410-535-4787
Provides services to persons with psychiatric disabilities by developing
a natural support network, enabling them to work and live fully in the
community.
Vantage Place, Inc.
410-992-5071
Psychiatric rehabilitation program providing housing, skills teaching,
entitlement assistance, advocacy, and crisis intervention to persons
with chronic mental illness and persons with traumatic brain injuries.
Women's Center, The
703-281-2657
Provides immediate, affordable counseling, education and information
to women and families for their psychological, professional, legal
and financial concerns, regardless of their ability to pay.
(5) PSYCH: National Listing
American Association of Suicidology
www.cyberpsych.org
202-237-2280
Facts: 31,000 Americans commit suicide annually; one in six is under
25, most are preventable. We promote research, publicize warning
signs, train care-givers and assist survivors.
Children of Alcoholics (NACoA)
www.health.org/nacoa
888-554-2627
Provides programs to identify and save children of alcoholics from
physical and psychological abuse; advocates for children with
schools, physicians, clergy, therapists, other professionals.
Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors
215-946-2876
The only worldwide organization providing burn survivors with
psychological support and many other services, aiming to return
them to happy and productive
lives.
Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
www.psyeta.org
301-963-4751
Psychologists working to reexamine the ways people relate to animals,
and through educational programs, to develop more compassionate
attitudes and behavior toward people and animals.
United States Cerebral Palsy Athletic Association
www.uscpaa.org
410-848-2460
Offers competitive sports opportunities to persons with cerebral
palsy, stroke, or traumatic-brain injury. Builds the physical,
psychological, and emotional well-being of the participant.
American Paralysis Association
www.apa.uci.edu/paralysis
800-225-0292
Encourages/supports research worldwide to find a cure for paralysis
caused by spinal cord injury/other central nervous system disorders.
Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled
www.animalfunds.org/monkeyhelpers.html
617-787-4419
We provide specially trained monkeys as helpers and companions to
paralyzed people. Monkey-helpers and lifetime support services are
provided to disabled individuals at no charge.
Kent Waldrep National Paralysis Foundation
800-925-2873
Our mission is to support research targeted at curing paralysis
caused by spinal cord injury, head injury or stroke.
Paralyzed Veterans of America Spinal Cord Injury Education
and Training Foundation (ETF)
www.pva.org
202-872-1300
Improving the overall well-being of paralyzed veterans with spinal
cord injuries, by enhancing the knowledge and abilities of healthcare
professionals who care for them.
Paralyzed Veterans of America Spinal Cord Research Foundation
www.pva.org
202-872-1300
Dedicated to helping Americas paralyzed veterans lead fuller and more
independent lives. We fund research for improved care and the
eventual cure of paralysis.
The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, Inc.
800-782-6387
Supports spinal cord injury research (SCI) and provides educational
and referral services to the SCI community.
(6) HANDI: Local Listing
American Red Cross, Montgomery County Chapter (MCCARC)
301-588-2515
Provides disaster/emergency relief, health/safety/social/casework
services to servicemen/their families; volunteer services to
hospitals/nursing homes (teaching, transporting poor/elderly/
handicapped persons).
Associated Catholic Charities, Inc.
410-547-5508
Catholic Charities serves abused and neglected children, the
homeless, handicapped, elderly, families, and the poor through
more than 50 programs.
Deaf-REACH (National Health Care Foundation for the Deaf)
202-832-6681TDD
Deaf-REACH provides deaf adults who are mentally ill, developmentally
disabled, or otherwise handicapped the tools they need to live as
independently as possible.
Downtown Cluster of Congregations
202-347-7015
Break the cycle of poverty. Establishing life-style programs for
homeless, handicapped and low-income groups. Emergency and long-term
needs of the impoverished are addressed.
Edgewood Area Thrift Shop (APG)
410-676-4733
The Shop serves as a medium for the sale of used merchandise in
order to generate funds for charitable purposes.
Helping Children Grow, Inc.
202-546-4064
Offers an alternative to prolonged institutionalization and
incarceration of neglected, abandoned, abused or handicapped
children by providing family home environments.
Housing Development Corporation, St. Mary's Court
202-223-5712
Everyone deserves a safe home. We provide housing to the elderly,
handicapped and underprivileged along with poetry classes, art,
Spanish, exercise, travel and special events.
Independent Living for the Handicapped, Inc. (ILH)
202-797-9803
We provide physically disabled adults with wheelchair-accessible
housing, transportation, and personal care aide assistance. We
train aides and perform referral, information, and advocacy
services.
Metropolitan Washington Ear
301-681-6636
Free service provides readings from newspapers, magazines, and
novels via closed-circuit radio and a Dial-in service for the
blind and print-handicapped.
PACT: Helping Children with Special Needs, Inc.
410-455-0404
Provides education, therapy and family support to infants
and toddlers who have developmental delays, complex medical needs,
and handicapping conditions.
Volunteers for the Visually Handicapped
301-589-0894
Provides Braille and mobility instruction, counsels blind adults,
trains volunteer readers/shoppers; sells assertive devices for the
visually impaired, and provides transportation to monthly activities.
(7) HANDI: National Listing
52 Association for the Handicapped
www.charities.org/52.html
212-868-1217
Founded in 1945, "52" offers free confidence-building, post-
therapeutic rehabilitation programs to physically disabled
individuals, including children, at its Confidence Through Sports
Centers.
Adoption Center
www.adopt.org/adopt
800-TO-ADOPT
Your donation helps find loving adoptive families for abused and
handicapped children and brothers and sisters who want to stay
together.
America the Beautiful Fund
www.charities.org/abf.html
800-522-3557
Assists 50,000 volunteer efforts to grow food for the needy, restore
blighted neighborhoods, help the handicapped, create jobs for young
people, and encourage good citizenship.
Children's Disability Service Association
www.friendshipventures.org
800-450-8376
Impoverished, handicapped children provided leisure, respite care,
social and support services. Your gift eases suffering and funds
quality programs for the afflicted and their families.
Disabled and Alone/Life Services for the Handicapped
www.childrenscharities.org/disabled_alone_handicapped_services.html
800-995-0066
What will happen to my handicapped child when Im not here? Help us
assure a safe, caring world for disabled persons after their parents
die.
FACES: The National Association for the Craniofacially
Handicapped
www.childrenscharities.org/FACES.html
800-332-2373
Craniofacially disfigured children require specialized reconstructive
surgery. We take care of these children and their families while
treatment is received. Rebuilding faces - rebuilding futures.
Father Flanagans Boys Home
www.charities.org/ffbh.html
800-448-3000
Boys Town provides food, clothing, shelter, education, spiritual,
and medical care to homeless, neglected, abused, and communicatively
handicapped youth.
Holiday Project
www.holiday-project.org
707-763-2160
On holidays, when the need is greatest, volunteers spend time with
the ill, elderly, disabled and handicapped, bringing needed attention,
gifts of necessities and love.
Janey Foundation, Inc.
410-461-1661
Establish centers for the handicapped children in India. Provide
counseling services to ethnic families in the Metropolitan Washington
area in marital and family problems.
Lutheran Braille Workers, Inc.
909-795-8977
Through a network of 7000 volunteers, braille and large print
materials are produced and given free to the blind and visually
handicapped throughout the world.
National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving the Blind
and Visually Handicapped
212-683-5068
Develops national standards and administers the accreditation program
for schools and rehabilitation agencies serving children and adults
who are blind or visually impaired.
National Association for Visually Handicapped
www.charities.org/navh.html
212-889-3141
A program, solely to benefit partially seeing of all ages, offers
educational outreach, referral, large print, emotional support and
visual aids services. Call collect.
National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped
303-298-9650
All people deserve a healthy smile. Dentists donate treatment and
some programs offer housecalls to needy persons disabled by
handicaps, advanced age or medical problems.
National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped (NTWH)
800-618-6622
Provides professional theatre training to talented, disabled adults
so they may pursue success in professional theatre or enhance their
chances in the wider workplace.
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Development Program
302-478-6574
Service to those who are: poor, young, growing, elderly, uneducated,
AIDS patients, handicapped, ignorant, homeless, addicted, refugees,
desperate, hungry, mentally afflicted, hospitalized, searching,
suffering, unemployed.
St. Marys Infant Home
804-622-2208
Provides residential services to 88 severely multi-handicapped
children ages birth to 18. The Infant Home refuses no child for
a lack of financial resources.
USA Baseball
609-586-2381
Fosters national/international amateur baseball, designates/sponsors
individuals/teams to represent United States in international
competitions; encourages participation by women and handicapped
individuals in baseball.
(8) DEAF: Local Listing
CONTACT Delaware, Inc.
302-761-9800
CONTACT Delaware, Inc. provides statewide 24-hour helpline services:
CONTACT Crisis Helpline, Deaf CONTACT Helpline, Rape Crisis CONTACT
Support Services, and daily Reassurance CONTACT Program.
Deaf Access Services, Inc.
301-696-1550
Promotes communication accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing
people primarily in Frederick County; provides sign language
interpreting, community education, information and referral, youth services.
Deaf Outreach/A. Eugene Hoeper Foundation
301-596-6928
TDY-Provide volunteer services for chronically ill, homebound deaf
individuals using Sign Language, visitation, emotional support,
respite care, cheer-by-mail and loaning specialized equipment.
Deaf-REACH (National Health Care Foundation for the Deaf)
202-832-6681TDD
Deaf-REACH provides deaf adults who are mentally ill, developmentally
disabled, or otherwise handicapped the tools they need to live as
independently as possible.
Family Service Foundation
301-459-2121
Statewide organization offering counseling, psychiatric services, all
problems and ages. Specialized treatment, residential, day habilitation
for hearing, deaf, deaf-blind, developmentally challenged. Mon.-Sat.
hours.
Lutheran Social Services - South Region
717-848-6238
Provides interpreting and other services for the deaf, counsels abusive
men through the ADVANCE program, provides case management, and offers
volunteer outreach through Touch-a-Life.
Maryland Therapeutic Horsemanship Association, Inc.
410-740-8791
Provides specialized programs teaching horseback riding to children and
adults who are physically challenged, mentally retarded, emotionally
disturbed, deaf or blind, serving Central Maryland.
Neurofibromatosis, Inc. Mid-Atlantic
301-577-8984
We provide information on this tumor-causing disorder, peer counseling,
newsletters and other materials, small equipment, speakers; support
research; conduct meetings with interpreter for deaf.
(9) DEAF: National Listing
American Foundation for the Blind
www.charities.org/afb.html
800-232-5463
Promotes Braille literacy, develops training materials for teachers of
deaf-blind children, monitors Americans with Disabilities Act, evaluates
services for blind and visually impaired people.
Auditory - Verbal International, Inc.
www.digitalnation.com/avi
703-739-1049
Provides the choice of listening and speaking for children who are deaf
or hard of hearing through education, advocacy and family support.
Deafness Research Foundation
village.ios.com/~drf1
800-535-3323
The largest national voluntary health organization supporting research
into the causes, treatments and prevention of deafness and serious ear
disorders.
Disabled Childrens Relief Fund
516-377-1605
Crippled, blind, deaf, injured, developmentally delayed, and other
children receive medical equipment, wheelchairs, braces, hearing aids,
and therapy especially when they have no health insurance.
Dogs for Disabled Americans (NEADS)
chamber.worcester.ma.us/neads
508-422-9064
Trains rescued dogs and donated puppies to help special needs children
and people who are deaf or physically disabled with everyday tasks and
increased independence.
Dogs for the Deaf
541-826-9220
Rescues dogs from shelters, trains them to serve as the ears for people
who are deaf, and places these special canine helpers nationwide.
International Hearing Dog, Inc.
303-287-3277
Trains dogs to alert deaf and hard of hearing persons to doorbell, phone,
smoke alarm, alarm clock, baby cry, etc., at no cost to recipient.
John Tracy Clinic for Preschool Deaf Children
www.johntracyclinic.org
800-522-4582
Provides, free of charge, support for parents in dealing with the impact
of deafness and training to help their hearing-impaired preschooler
develop communication skills.
National Association of the Deaf
www.nad.org
301-587-1788 Voice; 301-587-1789 TTY
Nations largest organization safeguarding the accessibility and civil
rights of 28 million deaf and hard of hearing Americans in education,
employment, health care, and telecommunications.
National Black Deaf Advocates
First call the MD Relay at 800-735-2258, then request 301-322-4523
The largest consumer organization of African American deaf/hard of
hearing people in the United States, advocates and promotes their
education, cultural, and economic advancement.
National Cued Speech Association
800-459-3529
You can help a deaf child learn language and become literate by helping
fund cued speech family support and education through your workplace
contribution.
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc.
301-608-0050
Opens the line of effective communication between deaf, hard of hearing
and hearing people by promoting excellence in interpreters/
transliterators and providing information to consumers.
SoundAid
www.childrenscharities.org/soundaid.html
714-494-4777
100% volunteer organization. We provide hearing aids, books, medicines,
and services to deaf and poor children in Mexico, Guatemala, and Turkey,
supplying hope and opportunity.
(10) PALSY: Local Listing
Cerebral Palsy of Prince George's and Montgomery Counties
301-262-4993
We provide educational, vocational, residential, social and therapeutic
supports so individuals with cerebral palsy and related disorders can
live as independently as possible.
United Cerebral Palsy Of South Central PA., Inc.
717-632-5552
Provides early intervention services for babies with disabilities and
attendant care services for mentally alert, physically challenged
adults.
United Cerebral Palsy of Delaware, Inc.
302-764-2400
Serves people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities through these
programs: Case Management, Respite Care, Client Assistance Program,
After School Care, and Summer Day Camping.
United Cerebral Palsy of Washington and Northern Virginia, Inc.(UCP)
202-269-1500
United Cerebral Palsy serves people with cerebral palsy and other
disabilities and their families through programs which provide direct
care, information, respite, technology and advocacy.
(11) PALSY: National Listing
American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Development Medicine
847-698-1635
To foster and stimulate education and research in cerebral palsy and
development medicine for the welfare of patients and their families.
United Cerebral Palsy Associations
www.ucpa.org
800-USA-5UCP
The national organization of UCPA, promotes through legislation,
research and direct services programs equal access to all things in
life for people with disabilities.
United Cerebral Palsy Research and Educational Foundation
800-872-5827
Provides grants for research and training on causes and prevention of
cerebral palsy and on improving the quality of life of persons with cerebral
palsy.
United States Cerebral Palsy Athletic Association
www.uscpaa.org
401-848-2460
Offers competitive sports opportunities to persons with cerebral palsy,
stroke, or traumatic-brain injury. Builds the physical, psychological,
and emotional well-being of the participant.
(12) HEAR: Local Listing
American Heart Association, Maryland Affiliate, Inc.
410-685-7074
The American Heart Association is dedicated to reducing disability and
death from cardiovascular disease and stroke through research, community
programs, and public and professional education.
American Heart Association, Montgomery and Prince George's Region
301-990-8900
Dedicated to reducing disability and death from cardiovascular disease
and stroke through research, community programs, and public and
professional education in Montgomery/Prince George's counties.
American Heart Association, Nation's Capital Affiliate (AHA/NCA)
202-686-6888
Fighting the nation's number one and number three killers . . .
cardiovascular disease and stroke, we fund important public health
education/research in the Washington, D.C. community.
American Heart Association, Virginia Affiliate, Inc.
703-941-8500
World's largest non-governmental supporter of cardiovascular research.
Provides heart education to public throughoutNorthern Virginia in
reducing disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
Blue Ridge Speech and Hearing Center of Loudoun County (BRSH)
703-777-5050
Provides evaluation, therapy to individuals experiencing speech or
language disorders. Dispenses hearing aids, other hearing devices;
serves outpatients, homebound clients, nursing homes and preschools.
Deaf Access Services, Inc.
301-696-1550
Promotes communication accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing
people primarily in Frederick County; provides sign language
interpreting, community education, information and referral, youth
services.
Family Service Foundation
301-459-2121
Statewide organization offering counseling, psychiatric services, all
problems and ages. Specialized treatment, residential, day habilitation
for hearing, deaf, deaf-blind, developmentally challenged. Mon.-Sat.
hours.
Fidos For Freedom, Inc.
410-880-4178
Specially trained assistance dogs providing independence and
companionship to people with mobility or hearing impairments and
unconditional love to nursing home residents through dedicated
volunteers.
Hearing and Speech Center, Washington (formerly Washington
Hearing and Speech Society)
202-244-4420
Provides complete hearing evaluations, fitting/dispensing of hearing
aids, on-site hearing screening, speech and language evaluations and
therapy. Sliding fee available based on ones income.
Hearth, Inc.
410-247-7947
Hearth, Inc. provides transitional shelter and supportive services for
homeless women and children and develops affordable housing for income
eligible families.
Heartly House
301-662-8800
Temporary shelter and/or emotional support for survivors and their
children seeking refuge from domestic violence and/or rape/sexual
assault, and education groups for batterers.
Northern Virginia Youth Symphony Association (NVYSA)
703-642-8051
Sponsors four orchestras for promising musicians ages 8-20. Orchestras
rehearse weekly under outstanding conductors. Presents full season of
affordable concerts for the community.
RPJ Housing Development Corporation
703-528-5606
Develops/preserves low-income housing. Acquisition/renovation affordable
rentals. Organizes volunteer home repairs: metro-wide Hearts/Hammers,
Fairfax/Arlington Christmas-in-April. Provides transitional housing.
Home ownership programs.
Shiloh Family Life Center Foundation
202-232-4200
We provide child care, after school educational enrichment and youth
mentoring programs, emergency financial assistance and counseling,
and a center to support hearing impaired seniors.
The Hearing and Speech Agency of Metropolitan Baltimore, Inc.
410-243-3800
Provides evaluation and treatment for children and adults with
communication disorders; speech-language pathology, audiology, special
education, social work, sign language, interpreters and related
services.
Washington Hospital Center
202-877-6558
Private non-profit hospital with specialties in burn, cancer, eye,
emergency, heart, maternity, renal transplantation and trauma.
(13) HEAR: National Listing
Advertising Council, Inc.
www.adcouncil.org
212-922-1500, ext.245
Raising a better tomorrow. We give children the voice they need to be
heard by the American public. We create hundreds of messages detailing
how everyone can help improve children's lives.
American Hearing Research Foundation
312-726-9670
Supports hearing research and education.
High Index
Provides site listings for communications systems and specific
Special Help / handicapped assistance index Brings you back to
www.maryland-us.com\special.htm.
Click on this link to see this Internet site.
The Digital Hearing Aids Depot
This is a products available to help hearing needs.
Products To Help Hearing Impaired
American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
301-897-5700
Advances knowledge and improves practice in serving children and adults
with speech, language, or hearing disorders through research, education,
and innovative special projects.
American Tinnitus Association
www.teleport.com/~ata
800-634-8978
Tinnitus, (ear and head noises) afflicts millions. ATA provides
information; makes hearing-health referrals; publishes quarterly
journal and bibliography; funds research and coordinates support
groups.
Assistance Dog United Campaign
800-284-DOGS
Guaranteed! 100% of your donation goes toward providing loving
assistance dog partners (guide, service, hearing, social/therapy
dogs) to disabled individuals through ADUCs seventy-two member
Auditory - Verbal International, Inc.
www.digitalnation.com/avi
703-739-1049
Provides the choice of listening and speaking for children who are
deaf or hard of hearing through education, advocacy and family
support.
Cancer Curing Society
www.gerson.org
619-585-7600
Help us teach patients and physicians safe, proven alternatives that
cure cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart and other M-fincurable
diseases - and replace non-curing surgeries and drugs.
Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence www.cpsdv.org
206-634-1903
Prevention of sexual abuse and domestic violence is at
the heart of this interreligious organization which trains and consults
religious communities nationwide.
Child Advocates, National Association of
www.childadvocacy.org
202-289-0777
The voice defending America's neediest children - the homeless, hungry,
sick, abused, and neglected. Help protect these kids, keeping their
voices heard and their rights defended.
Childrens HeartLink
www.charities.org/heartlink.html
612-928-4860
An international medical charity, dedicated to the prevention and
treatment of heart disease in needy children and assisting cardiac
centers in developing countries.
Christian Service Organizations of America
www.csoa.org
888-728-2762
Opening our hearts in Christian love and compassion to those in need,
sharing God's word, His blessings, and ourselves through your
generosity.
Disabled Childrens Relief Fund
516-377-1605
Crippled, blind, deaf, injured, developmentally delayed, and other
children receive medical equipment, wheelchairs, braces, hearing aids,
and therapy especially when they have no health insurance.
HEAR NOW
www.leisurelan.com/hearnow/
800-648-HEAR
Hearing aids provided to the poor of all ages. 20,000,000 Americans
need hearing aids - 5,000,000 cannot afford them. Your donation gives
the gift of sound.
1457 Heart To Heart International
913-764-5200
Humanitarian response the Midwest way. Person-to-person, ordinary
people mobilizing medicines and supplies to meet critical needs in
the United States and around the world.
Heart of the Matter, Inc.
818-447-6420
Education, emphasizing teacher training, USA and abroad, through
instruction, support of academics, health, sanitation and provision
of basic needs, exemplifying Christian values and ethics.
Heartbeat International of West Central Florida
813-933-7136
Free pacemakers and medical services to poor children and adults in
developing countries. Also provides state-of-the-art training to
physicians treating these patients.
Heartspring
www.heartspring.org/heartspring
800-835-1043
A residential school for children with multiple disabilities.
Specializing in programs for children with autism, mental retardation,
behavior disorders, seizure disorders, vision and hearing impairments.
Hope Heart Institute
206-328-8600
Dedicated to reducing death and disability caused by cardiovascular
disease through our research and education to advance disease treatment
and prevention.
Human Rights Documentation Exchange
512-476-9841
Helps political asylum seekers who flee persecution, torture, or death,
to receive a fair hearing, by providing evidence of human rights
violations in their countries.
International Hearing Dog, Inc.
303-287-3277
Trains dogs to alert deaf and hard of hearing persons to doorbell,
phone, smoke alarm, alarm clock, baby cry, etc., at no cost to
recipient.
John Tracy Clinic for Preschool Deaf Children
www.johntracyclinic.org
800-522-4582
Provides, free of charge, support for parents in dealing with the
impact of deafness and training to help their hearing-impaired
preschooler develop communication skills.
Medical Research Agencies of America
www.mraa.org
888-215-6722
AIDS. Arthritis. Cancer. Diabetes. Heart disease. Herpes. Fight back
by supporting medical research and help discover the prevention and
cure for these and other diseases.
National Association of the Deaf
www.nad.org
301-587-1788 Voice; 301-587-1789 TTY
Nations largest organization safeguarding the accessibility and civil
rights of 28 million deaf and hard of hearing Americans in education,
employment, health care, and telecommunications.
National Black Deaf Advocates -
First call the MD Relay at 800-735-2258, then request 301-322-4523
The largest consumer organization of African American deaf/hard of
hearing people in the United States, advocates and promotes their
education, cultural, and economic advancement.
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc.
301-608-0050
Opens the line of effective communication between deaf, hard of
hearing and hearing people by promoting excellence in interpreters/
transliterators and providing information to consumers.
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/shh
301-657-2248
The largest consumer organization dedicated to individuals with
hearing loss. SHHH offers support, referral, and information through
the National office and 260 local chapters nationwide.
Sertoma Foundation
816-333-8300
North American volunteer organization, primarily benefitting people
with speech and hearing disorders. Clubs also promote democracy,
help youth, and contribute to their communitys well-being.
By clicking on the term "better health and physical needs" at
the end of this sentence, you will find a very helpful link to
better health and physical needs site.
(14) AUTISM: Helpful Information
SUBSCRIBE (NO COST) TO FEAT's Daily Newsletter: Each day
They collect autism features and news as it breaks.
To Subscribe (or unsubscribe) click on the following link:
Link to FEAT
Over the past 50 years, vaccines have gained control over or virtually
eliminated diseases that used to be very common in the U.S., including
measles, diphtheria, polio, smallpox, rubella, Hib meningitis and mumps.
But, other diseases such as hepatitis B, varicella and pneumococcal
meningitis are still common, resulting in serious illness for many
families. In fact, even in the U.S., where immunization rates are the highest,
approximately 1 million pre-school children are not adequately protected
against potentially disabling or fatal diseases that can be prevented by
immunization. For more information, please call 877-55-PKIDS or log onto
http://www.pkids.org .
(15) Special Library BOOKS:
Answers to Distraction Hallowell and Ratey
Driven to Distraction Hallowell/Ratey
Parents' Guide ADHD in Children Goldstein pamphlet
Maybe You Know My Kid Fowler
Your Hyperactive Child Barbara Ingersoll
How to Own and Operate an Attention Deficit Kid Debra Maxey
Raising Your Spirited Child Mary S. Kurcinka
Raising a Thinking Child Myrna B. Shure, Phd.
123 Magic Phelan Discipline hints
The Hyperactive Child, Adolescent and Adult Paul Wender
Benefits for Children w/Disabilities Social Security definitions and rules
ADD and the Law Latham/Latham
You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid... Kelly/Ramundo for adults w/ ADD/ADHD
Down and Dirty Guide to Adult ADD Gordon/McClure
Adventures in Fast Forward Kathleen Nadeau ADD Adults
Women w/ ADD Sari Solden
No Easy Answers Sally Smith (Learning Disabled Child at home and school)
ADHD/Hyperactivity Michael Gordon for parents and teachers
What is ADHD? Dr. Keith Bauer primer for parents & teachers
Succeeding Against the Odds Sally Smith (How LD can realize their promise)
Learning Disabilities NIH pamphlet understanding, getting help, coping
Hyperactivity and Attention Disorders in Children pamphlet
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder NIH pamphlet resource and reading list
The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing Rapport obsessive-compulsive disorder
Putting on the Brakes Quinn/Stern for kids to read Putting on the Brakes Handbook - activities
Learning to Slow Down and Pay Attention Nadeau/Dixon for kids to read
Eagle Eyes Gehret child's perspective
A Boy and a Bear Lori Lite a relaxation book for kids
I'm Somebody Too Gehret sibling's perspective
Making the Grade Roberta Parker for teens w/ ADD
School Strategies for ADD Teens Nadeau/Dixon/Biggs
ADD/Hyperactivity Handbook for Schools Parker for teachers
How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Rief for teachers
Attention w/o Tension Copeland/Love for teachers
Negotiating the Special Education Maze Anderson/Clintwood/Hayden
Primary Source:
ADD Warehouse - 1-800-233-9273
www.addwarehouse.com
Also try:
Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders (CHADD) -
a support organization at http://www.chadd.org/
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