disability resources

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• - A private, non-profit agency providing quality and innovative services to over 5,000 individuals with special needs and their families throughout Western New York.
  
• - Organization whose goal is to connect and support families of individuals with special needs.
  
• - A not-for-profit health and human services organization serving people with developmental and learning disabilities and their families throughout the New York metropolitan area.
  
• - Dedicated to ensuring that public mental health policy is just, fair and promotes equality and opportunity.
  
• - A not-for-profit membership organization that advocates on behalf of individuals with brain injury and their families and develops programs that promote changing the behaviors that place people at risk for sustaining a brain injury.
  
• - Provides services, education, technical assistance, to ensure full inclusion of persons with developmental disabilities in their communities and to maximize their potential for leading independent and productive lives.
  
• - Statewide not-for-profit organization run by people with disabilities for people with disabilities. Annual conference information, poetry and songs, issues, and membership information.
  
• - Information on nearly every aspect of partnerships for children -- from early prenatal care to comprehensive health care for any-age child.
  
• - Contact information for disability resources.
  
• - A family-based organization working with and for people with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities.
  
• - Links to general information, social groups, advocacy organizations, educational resources, and parent training information.
  
• - Advocates for the inclusion of people with disabilities in society. Includes executive committee and members listings, ILC directory and purpose.
  
• - A systems advocacy agency whose primary mission is to ensure that people with disabilities have every opportunity to be productive and participating citizens.
  
• - Information and support services for families of multiply disabled children and adolescents.
  
• - Promotes educational equity and excellence for students with disabilities while ensuring that they receive the rights and protection to which they are entitled
  
• - An organization of professionals - speech language pathologists and audiologists - engaged in clinical, educational, or research activities in communication disorders.
  
• - AABR is a non-profit organization provides services to people who are blind and mentally retarded or who have autism in the New York Metropolitan area.
  
• - DDAWNY is a collaborative group of member voluntary agencies that provide services to people with developmental disabilities throughout the 8 counties of WNY.
  
• - Serves people with mental disabilities and their families by providing independent oversight of the quality and cost effectiveness of services provided by all mental hygiene programs in New York State.
  
• - Suffolk AHRC (Association for the Help of Retarded Children) provides educational, residential, day care and work programs for persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.
  
• - A New York based service organization dedicated to providing greater accessibility to arts and cultural events for the Deaf and hard of hearing community.