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  • Accessible Arts, Inc. - The mission of Accessible Arts, Inc. is to champion the arts for children with disabilities and advocate access to the arts.

  • Autism/Asperger Resource Center - The purpose of the Autism Asperger Resource Center (AARC) is to foster the behavioral, academic, and social development of persons with autism, Asperger's syndrome, and related exceptionalities by offering a variety of services to individuals and support networks.

  • Autism Society of Johnson County - ASJCK's world-wide web page and site provides links to various organizational, university, library, government agency, and chapter world-wide web sites. 

  • Autism Resource Guide for Johnson County Families - A resource guide for families of children and adults with autism spectrum disorders, including autism, PDD-NOS, and Asperger's Syndrome. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader Download Adobe Acrobat Reader)

  • Brain Injury Association of Kansas & Greater Kansas City - The Brain Injury Association offers support services to individuals and their families throughout the state of Kansas and the greater Kansas City area who are recovering from traumatic brain injury.

  • Community Developmental Disability Organizations (statewide List)

  • Coalition Actively Reforming Education seeks to engage parents and community, in order to improve upon the factors that will produce an equitable, quality educational outcome for all students in KCK USD 500.communities is inversely proportional to the level of education, unemployment, and quality housing. A new Kansas City, KS collaboration  called CARE  (COALITION ACTIVELY REFORMING EDUCATION); collaboration members: MANA de Kansas City, NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of COlored) People, IBSA KCK (International Black Student Alliance of KCK), North East COALITION, PCAT (Parent Community Action Team), Justice Campaign of America, El Centro.

  • Coalition for Independence - Addressing the Unmet Needs of People with disAbilities (Kansas City, KS)  Centers for Independent Living (CILS) are non-residential, community-based, private, non-profit organizations that are designed and operated by individuals with disabilities.

  • Community Early Intervention Networks -brochure listing all Kansas Infant Toddler Programs. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader Download Adobe Acrobat Reader)

  • Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) - The Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) is an international organization of and for professionals who represent diverse disciplines and who are committed to enhancing the education and lifespan development of individuals with learning disabilities.

  • EFECT (Encouraging Families with Exceptional Children Together) - is to empower families of children with disabilities by providing education, information, encouragement, support, and pathways to services.  EFECT presently serves over 1200 individuals in the Greater Kansas City area and outlying communities.

  • Family Advocacy Center for Education & Support (Email link)

  • Gallaudet University Regional Center at Johnson County Community College - To provide information and education directed to the deaf and hard of hearing community, professionals and agencies that work with those populations. Services include deaf and hearing impaired services, continuing education, and seminars. A non-profit agency. Fees vary according to program.

  • Guidance Center, Inc. - mental health service provider in northeast Kansas, serving all residents of Atchison, Jefferson, and Leavenworth Counties. Services are available without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or ability to pay for care.

  • Heartstrings Community Foundation - assist adults with developmental disabilities to live meaningful, independent, productive lives through interactions within the community.

  • Hoglund Brain Imaging Center - Conduct research, using state of the art magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy and magnetoencephalography, into understanding the structure and function of normal, injured, and diseased brain. With these tools we will study both animal and human brain metabolism, anatomy, hemodynamics, magnetophysiology, and electrophysiology

  • Johnson County Families - JoCoFamily.Net is funded through a Juvenile Crime Prevention grant from the Tenth Judicial District of Johnson County, Kansas. It has been created by the Johnson County Library with support from the District Attorney’s Office and Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center. This information service provides 24-hour access to community resources and legal information for Johnson County families of at-risk youth.

  • Johnson County Developmental Supports - Johnson County Developmental Supports (JCDS) is the Community Developmental Disabilities Organization (CDDO). In its role as one of the State of Kansas' designated Community Developmental Disabilities Organization (CDDO), JCDS provides a single point of contact and entry for people seeking services throughout Johnson County, and maintains a county-wide service needs list for those waiting for certain services. In addition, JCDS works with affiliates who are agencies and individual service provider.

  • Johnson County Mental Health Center - Johnson County Mental Health Center's mission is to improve the mental health and quality of life for Johnson County residents. Our staff accomplishes this by providing mental health services tailored to the needs of those we serve which are of the highest quality and easily accessible to all residents.

  • Kansas Community Mental Health Centers (statewide list)

  • Kansas Centers for Independent Living - represents 12 Centers for Independent Living (CIL’s).  Centers provide services to people with disabilities of all ages.  Centers for Independent Living also provide assistance to businesses and all other entities in the community to assist them in offering services to people with disabilities.  We advocate at a state and national level for the rights of all people with disabilities to live in the communities of their choice.

  • Kansas School for the Deaf - Total Accessibility to Language and Educational Excellence in a Visual Environment.

  • Kansas State School for the Blind - The mission of the Kansas State School for the Blind (KSSB) is to empower students with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills to assume responsible roles in society and to lead fulfilling lives. KSSB will be the statewide leader in establishing partnerships with parents, school districts, and community resources to promote access to a high quality education for all Kansas students with visual impairments, regardless of where they attend school

  • Lakemary Center - to see all those we serve achieve the lifestyle they desire, and also to remain a constant partner as individual needs evolve over time.  A complete spectrum of services for persons of all ages in both Paola and southern Johnson County. residential school and treatment program.

  • Mental Retardation Research Center At Parsons - The Parsons Research Center is home base to a number of projects, most of which are funded by the Mental Retardation Branch of NICHD. These include studies of: reading; the effects of reinforcement variables on self injurious and destructive behaviors; the effects of drugs on aberrant behaviors, adaptive behaviors, and cognitive skills; movement related brain potentials in individuals with Down syndrome; relational and symbolic learning; stimulus control and stimulus classes; treatment of sexual deviancy; and smoking cessation.

  • MOSAIC - Mosaic opens doors to extraordinary lives so that people with disabilities may experience God's gift of wholeness of life in all of the wonderful ways they choose for themselves.

  • The Neurological Disabilities Support Project 

  • The Neurological Disabilities Support Project  - The project supports students with neurologic disabilities by providing services to educators and parents of children with neurologic disabilities.  For example, Kansas teachers and parents of students with Autism, Acquired or Traumatic Brain Injury (ABI/TBI), Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) or other neurologic disabilities can call the Neurologic Disabilities Support Project.

  • Olathe Club of the Deaf - Olathe Club of the Deaf is a club that opens to everyone (Deaf, HH, and Hearing). OCD have a clubhouse where people gathers to meet, talk, and attend club's events. OCD have monthly newsletter which are mail to OCD's members. Interested in being a member, contact Anthony Golden, Due Collector. The clubhouse is located at 221 South Chestnut in Olathe, KS.

  • Premier Therapy Services - is dedicated to helping individuals maximize their communicative potential through family-directed therapy and a team approach. We provide speech-language therapy within the natural environment to address the unique communicative needs of the individual, concerns of the family, and to assist the individual in becoming involved in the community.

  • Resource Center for Independent Living, Inc. - committed to working with individuals, families, and communities to promote independent living and individual choice to persons with disabilities

  • Special Diet: In Your Home Cooking - accommodate your special dietary needs and help you follow doctor or nutritionist recommended plans. I am familiar with AHA, low-fat, low-salt, Weight Watchers, TOPS, South Beach, Atkens, Somersizing, the Zone and the T-factor diets. I am willing to help you with your gluten-free and/or casien-free diets. Menus can be tailored to your needs.

  • Special Olympics Kansas - Our Mission Is... to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for individuals with intellectual disabilities by giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community

  • Special Olympics-Southeast Kansas

  • Tri-Valley Developmental Services is committed to the ideal that people have a right to be active within their community. Our mission is to offer a wide range of choices, meeting individual needs, and providing opportunities for persons with disabilities to maximize their potential enabling them to achieve the quality of community life they seek. Serving citizens of Allen, Bourbon, Neosho, and Woodson counties by maintaining and enhancing the high quality of life which characterizes our communities. Through the services of Tri-Valley, individuals with developmental disabilities become active members of their communities.

  • Wyandot Center for Community Behavioral Healthcare -offer an array of services to support those challenged with behavioral health concerns. If you are experiencing a mental health concern, or have a friend or family member in need of services, the Wyandot Center is here for you. The Wyandot Center is a private not-for-profit agency that operates under the governance of a board of directors as a licensed community mental health center

 

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