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April 2nd, 2008
 

Family Life: Links

Assist Guide
AssistGuide: Providing Choices for Long-Term Living aims to be your interactive community for long-term care products, services, information, and support to health care providers, consumers, family members and caregivers.
Website maintained by: Assist Guide

Aurora Highview Community Millennium Project
This is the website of a project to create a uniquely designed, barrier-free public play structure that serves York Region (Ontario) and beyond, providing challenging play opportunities for all children, including those with special needs.
Website maintained by: Aurora Highview Community Millennium Project

Caregiver.com
A website and magazine (Today's Caregiver Magazine) for, about and by caregivers. The website includes topic-specific newsletters, online discussion lists, back issue articles of Today's Caregiver Magazine, chat rooms and an online store.
Website maintained by: Caregiver.com

Challenge Air For Kids/Friends
Challenge Air for Kids & Friends, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation that joins together with communities and families to host special events where they fly physically challenged and seriously ill children in small airplanes flown by wheelchair pilots. Each event brings together children with various disabilities in their community, challenging them to expand their individual perspectives, renew their faith in themselves and strive to reach for their dreams.
Website maintained by: Challenge Air For Kids/Friends

Child Care Connection Nova Scotia (CCCNS)
Website maintained by: Child Care Connection Nova Scotia (CCCNS)

ConnectABILITY
ConnectABILITY is a virtual community focused on lifelong learning and support for children, youth and adults with an intellectual disability, their families, caregivers and support networks.
Website maintained by: ConnectABILITY

Disability, Pregnancy & Parenthood International (DPPi)
DPPi helps parents with disabilities, professional workers, relatives and friends who help support a parent with a disability, who are looking for information about parenting and disability.
Website maintained by: Disability, Pregnancy & Parenthood International (DPPi)

Disabled Parents Network (DPN)
Disabled Parents Network believes that disabled people have the right to have children and that they should be properly equipped, supported and resourced for each stage of parenting.
Website maintained by: Disabled Parents Network (DPN)

Education Wife Assault
Includes a free searchable directory of services for abused women with disabilities in seven cities in Ontario, with names and locations of organizations, listings of services and type of access for women with disabilities.
Website maintained by: Education Wife Assault

Equip K.I.D.S International
This charitable organization is dedicated to helping children with disabilities in developing countries.
Website maintained by: Equip K.I.D.S International

Internet Resources for Special Children
This site is dedicated to providing information on the needs of children with disabilities around the world. The highlight of the website is its substantial directory of disability links, organized into topic areas. A list of Internet search engines is even made available to complete the user's search for information.
Website maintained by: Internet Resources for Special Children

Kenneth Gordon School
An elementary school operated by the Society for the Education of Children with Specific Learning Disabilities, for children with dyslexia or other specific learning disabilities.
Website maintained by: Kenneth Gordon School

Kutaways Coats
Coats designed for wheelchair users to maintain the quality of living for people in motion.
Website maintained by: Kutaways Coats

Motherisk
Created by the Motherisk Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, this website contains evidence-based information about the risk or safety of medications, chemicals, drugs of abuse and other exposures during pregnancy and lactation.
Website maintained by: Motherisk

Parents with Disabilities Online
Parents with Disabilities Online - "The Internet's One-Stop Resource for Parents with Disabilities", provides information and resources related to parenting.
Website maintained by: Parents with Disabilities Online

R.E.A.C.H.
UK-based association for children with hand or arm deficiencies.
Website maintained by: R.E.A.C.H.

The Children's Institute
The Children's Institute is dedicated to promoting the well-being of children, young people and their families and to providing services that meet their special needs.
Website maintained by: The Children\'s Institute

The Dragonfly Toy Company Inc. – For Children with Special Play Needs
This site is for a toy company that makes toys for children with special needs. There is an online catalogue, and an instant-order system.
Website maintained by: The Dragonfly Toy Company Inc. – For Children with Special Play Needs

The Exceptional Parent Resource Guide
Gives helpful information for parenting children and young adults with a disability or special health care need.
Website maintained by: The Exceptional Parent Resource Guide

Through the Looking Glass (TLG)
Through the Looking Glass is an organization for parents with disabilities, as well as for parents of children with disabilities. It hosts international conferences and produces publications and papers.
Website maintained by: Through the Looking Glass (TLG)
Located in Berkeley, CA, United States.

Wow! Winners on Wheels Online
This is a colourful site for kids who use whelchairs. Designed to promote achievement, it gives children an opportunity to win Wheel Awards for success in areas such as sports, crafts and nature. Kids can also join a circle and meet other kids on line to chat or play games. There are opportunities to upgrade computer skills, a section for parents and another called Tough It Out to help children develop self-confidence.
Website maintained by: Wow! Winners on Wheels Online

Yoga for the Special Child
Yoga for the Special Child is an integrated system of yoga techniques designed to stimulate the cognitive and motor development of children with Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Attention Deficit Disorder and Learning Disabilities.
Website maintained by: Yoga for the Special Child