THE LAW OFFICES OFCARYL ANDREA OBERMAN
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607A North Easton Road
Willow Grove, PA 19090
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PARENT RESOURCES
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ASCEND Group, Inc., an Asperger Syndrome information alliance for Southeastern Pennsylvania, founded in 2001. This is a volunteer, parent-run organization.
O.A.S.I.S. Online Asperger Syndrome Information and Support
Autism Living and Working (ALAW) ALAW’s mission is to help adults with autism form and sustain households, hold jobs, and contribute to community life, through individual supports and accommodations. The Autism Research Institute (ARI), a non-profit organization, was established in 1967. ARI is primarily devoted to conducting research, and to disseminating the results of research, on the causes of autism and on methods of preventing, diagnosing and treating autism and other severe behavioral disorders of childhood. They provide information based on research to parents and professionals throughout the world.
Autism Society of America (ASA) information to help people understand autism, resources for families of children with autism and a directory of local chapters nationwide.
DAN!™ (Defeat Autism Now!™) is dedicated to educating parents and clinicians regarding biomedically-based research, appropriate testing and safe and effective interventions for autism.
Parent Support Groups serving:
● ASA Groups: Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties
● ASA Group: Lehigh County
● Sharing and Caring of Bucks County
Pennsylvania Department of Education - In visiting this site, you will have access to comprehensive overviews of many education reform initiatives. Plus, you'll find useful information from the laws governing Pennsylvania's educational system to lists of the home pages of schools and colleges in the state. With a few clicks, you'll be connected to information explaining how to become a certified teacher in Pennsylvania or where to obtain a GED. Visitors will be able to learn more about our education initiatives and find up-to-date news and information on programs sponsored by the Department. Information explaining the vast resources of the Commonwealth Libraries is also available, including Pennsylvania's innovative POWER library program. This site includes Basic Education Circulars (BECS), Pennsylvania's Academic Standards and Pennsylvania School Profiles.
United States Department of Education - Click here for information for parents and families.
Do2Learn is a website offering games, songs, communication cards, print resources and information for parents and teachers of children with special needs.
The Education Law Center-PA (ELC-PA) is a non-profit legal advocacy organization dedicated to insuring that all of Pennsylvania's children have access to a quality public education. Their main office is in Philadelphia, with a branch office in Pittsburgh. They also operate the Pennsylvania School Reform Network (PSRN), which has its main office in Harrisburg. The PSRN Web site includes various links of use to parents and educators, as well as a section that describes education legislation currently under consideration by the Pennsylvania legislature. Click here for a list of available helpful manuals and brochures, including the latest edition of Special Education in a Nutshell and The Right to Special Education in Pennsylvania: A Guide for Parents. For contact information, click here.
Internet Resource for Special Children (IRSC)
The Federal Resource Center for Special Education
National State Policy Database (NASD) currently holds state department of education rules and regulations for Special Education for individual states in searchable databases.
Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
The Office of Special
Education and Rehabilitative Resources (OSERS) -
Their mission is to
provide leadership to achieve full integration and participation in society of
people with disabilities by ensuring equal opportunity and access to, and
excellence in, education, employment and community living.
PARENT EDUCATION NETWORK (PEN)
is Pennsylvania's statewide Parent Training and Information Center. Much
of the information included in their site is designed to support Pennsylvania
parents of children with special needs, but information and links are included
on Federal Special Education, National Disability Issues and Resources,
Special Education Legal Links, Transportation, and Travel that will also
pertain to parents and individuals with disabilities in other states.
Parents Involved Network (PIN) is an organization that assists parents or caregivers of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders. PIN provides information, helps parents find services and will advocate on their behalf with any of the public systems that serve children. These include the mental health system, education, and other state and local child-serving agencies.
Pennsylvania School Reform Network (PSRN) works to restore Pennsylvania's promise of an excellent education for each and every child. They work with state policy makers and local homemakers, with the teachers and the taught, with the professionals and professors - with all who are willing to roll up their sleeves and improve our public schools.
Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) The mission of PaTTAN is to support the efforts of the Bureau of Special Education and its initiatives and to build the capacity of local educational agencies to provide appropriate services to students who receive special education services.
Circle of Inclusion Outreach Training Project is designed to address the challenges and issues of inclusive program development for children with severe, multiple disabilities.
Enabling Education Network - The University of Manchester in England provides a worldwide perspective on inclusion. The site aims to disseminate information on inclusionary practices and to support and promote the inclusion of marginalized groups in education. Here, find information on educating the deaf in Afghanistan, national policies of inclusion in England, and helping to educate disabled refugees in Nepal.
The Inclusion Network goes beyond the schoolhouse and aims for ways to engage "people with disabilities in all our daily activities--at school, at work, at home, and in the community." The site features an Inclusion Marketplace, helping those with disabilities obtain jobs, as well as Inclusion Consulting Services that employers can use to help set up their workplace to accommodate those with disabilities.
Inclusion... Or Yours, Mine, Ours - The resources to build support and the confidence to include children in your classroom with success.
Inclusion (University of Northern Iowa) - children who learn together, learn to live together.
Inclusion in Science Education for Students with Disabilities
Inclusion Press is a small independent press striving to produce readable, accessible, user-friendly books and resources about full inclusion in school, work and community.
Institute on Community Integration (University of Minnesota) - The Institute on Community Integration was established in 1985 with a mission to improve the quality and community orientation of services and supports available to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
INTSEP - INTegration vs. SEParation - The University of Fribourg, Switzerland's research.
New Horizons: Inclusion of Students with Special Needs - New Horizons is a virtual warehouse of information on the requirements necessary for the successful inclusion of special needs students into the standard classroom environment.
Resources for Inclusive Education - worthwhile links to web inclusion resources.
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics (The Maryland Chapter) includes General Parenting Resources, Health Related Issues, State Agencies and Information Resources.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. CDC's mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury and disability.
KidsHealth - Created by the pediatric medical experts at The Alfred I. duPont Institute Children's Hospital, The Nemours Children's Clinic and other children's health facilities nationwide. Parents and medical professionals will find information on issues ranging from child behavior and development, to nutrition, growth, surgery, immunizations and more.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The Pennsylvania Health Law Project (PHLP)
is a consultant on access to health care for low-income consumers, the elderly
and persons with disabilities. For more than a decade, PHLP has engaged in
direct advocacy on behalf of individual consumers while working on the kinds
of health policy changes that promise the most to the Pennsylvanians in greatest
need. Medical
Assistance, also known
as "MA" or "Medicaid," provides free health care coverage to Pennsylvania
residents who fit into one of the eligibility groups that are covered by
the MA Program and who have income, and sometimes resources, that fall below
the level set by the State for their category of MA eligibility.
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
APPLICATION - To view the application necessary to apply for Medical Assistance
in Pennsylvania on behalf of a disabled child,
click here. The
application is a PDF file which you can read from your computer. To do so,
you will need to have a PDF file viewer, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, installed
on your system. If you do not have one, you can download Adobe Acrobat
Reader for free by
clicking
here. You should then follow the instructions to complete the downloading
and installation process. Once completed, you should mail or hand deliver
the application to the
County Assistance Office
closest to your child's home.
Medicaid Waivers
- A Medicaid Waiver is used to allow states to: 1) provide services that
would allow a person to live in the home and community and avoid institutionalization
and 2) receive federal funding through the use of Medicaid dollars. The term
“Waiver” means that certain statutes, regulations, and limits on services
and eligibility are waived in order to provide these services in the community.
The Office of Mental Retardation operates three waivers: Consolidated Waiver,
Person/Family Directed Support Waiver and Infants/Toddlers and Families Waiver.
Each waiver has its own unique set of eligibility requirements and services.
More information on each waiver can be found at the Department of Public
Welfare's
Office
of Mental Retardation website.
For additional information on Medicaid-funded and non-Medicaid funded home and
community based services in Pennsylvania, call the Long Term Care Helpline
toll-free at 1-866-286-3636. Or visit the
Long
Term Care Website.
Search MEDLINE at the National Library of Medicine's World Wide Web site. Every significant program of the Library is represented, from medical history to biotechnology. This is the world's largest biomedical library.
Yahoo! Health Page - Yahoo's list of resources, including mental health resources.
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