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Associations, Affiliations & Government
- Acess ON
www.accesson.ca - The Arthritis Society
www.arthritis.ca - At Health
Provider of mental health information and services.
www.athealth.com - Autism Ontario
www.autismontario.com - GenevaCentre For Autism
www.autism.net - British Columbia Council for Families
www.bccf.bc.ca - Canadian Cancer Society
www.cancer.ca - Canadian Down Syndrome Society
www.cdss.ca - Canadian Health Network
Health info for every body
www.canadian-health-network.ca - The Canadian Hearing Society
www.chs.ca - Canadian Institute of Child Health
www.cich.ca - Canadian National Institute for the Blind
www.cnib.ca - Canadian Paraplegic Association
www.canparaplegic.org - Child Advocacy Project
www.childadvocacy.ca - Developmental Services Toronto
www.dsto.com
- The Easter Seal Society
www.easterseals.org - Epilepsy Canada
www.epilepsy.ca - Epilepsy Ontario
www.epilepsyontario.org - Local Health Integration Networks
- Motherisk
Treating the Mother – Protecting the Unborn
www.motherisk.org - Muscular Dystrophy Canada
www.mdac.ca - Ontario Association of Children's Rehabilitation Services
www.oacrs.com - Ontario Brain Injury Association
www.obia.on.ca - Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy
www.ofcp.on.ca - Ontario March of Dimes
www.marchofdimes.ca/dimes - Neurologic Rehabilitation Institute of Ontario
www.nrio.com - Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario Conferences
- Provincial Council for Children's Health
www.pcch.on.ca - Sick Kids
www.sickkids.ca - The "Special Needs" Planning Group
- Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Canada
www.sbhac.ca - Surrey Place Centre
- Surrey Place Centre exists to enable individuals with developmental disabilities to maximize abilities and enhance health and well being.
- Toronto Area Safety Coalition
www.torsafe.com - Variety - The Children's Charity Ontario
www.varietyontario.ca
Children’s Mental Health
- Canadian Mental Health Association
www.cmha.ca - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
www.camh.net - Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
www.bpkids.org - Children's Mental Health Ontario
www.kidsmentalhealth.ca - Parents for Children’s Mental Health
www.parentsforchildrensmentalhealth.org - The Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
www.onthepoint.ca - The Psychology Foundation of Canada
www.psychologyfoundation.org
Disability Networking & Research
Within all of these sites, there are general links to information on health & recreation as well as links to articles & books.
- The Canadian Association of Independent Living Centres
www.cailc.ca - CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research
www.canchild.ca - Community Living Ontario
www.communitylivingontario.ca - Current Oncology
An online peer-reviewed medical journal published six times a year, plus supplements. Specializing in cancer, the journal attracts top oncologists from around the world.
http://www.current-oncology.com
- Disability News & Resource Directory
www.disabilityblog.info - Disability Resource Directory
www.disability-resource.com - Door 2 Adulthood
www.door2adulthood.org - Extend-A-Family
Ensure that people with disabilities develop meaningful relationships and participate fully in the community
www.extendafamily.ca - Family Alliance Ontario
Family Alliance Ontario is an alliance of citizens that offers knowledge, tools and networking opportunities to individuals with disabilities and their families to assist them to realize a vision that includes having valued relationships, choice and control in their lives, and enables inclusion through meaningful contribution and participation in their communities.
www.family-alliance.com - Family Village
A Global Community of Disability-Related Resources
www.familyvillage.wisc.edu - Gage Transition to Independent Living
www.westpark.org/patientservices/gage.html - Income Security Advocate Centre
www.incomesecurity.org - Medical Publishing Resources
www.demosmedpub.com - Offord Centre for Child Studies
Research dedicated to improving the life quality and life opportunities of the one in five Canadian children and youth who suffer from serious social and emotional problems.
www.offordcentre.com - Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres
www.oaccac.on.ca - Reena
Reena will enable people with developmental disabilities to realize their full potential by forming lifelong partnership with individuals and their families within a framework of Jewish culture and values.
www.reena.org - Safe Ability
Safe Ability provides valuable, accessible and current information on occupational health and safety.
www.linkup.ca/safeability
For Parents
- Ability Online
www.ablelink.org
Free Internet community where young people with disabilities and illnesses connect with all kinds of possibilities.
- Respite Services
www.respiteservices.com
Respite Services: family support service that provides temporary relief from the physical and emotional demands involved in caring for a family member with a developmental and/or physical disability. - Alberta Government’s Children’s Services: Parenting Day-to-Day
www.child.gov.ab.ca/acyi/parenting/daytoday/page.cfm?pg=index - www.bullying.org
Canadian project to address bullying and what can be done about it.
www.bullying.org - Canadian Child Care Federation
www.cccf-fcsge.ca - Canadian Parents
Parenting website.
www.canadianparents.com - Caring for Kids
Child’s health information from Canada’s pediatric experts www.caringforkids.cps.ca - Child Health Information – Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
www.cheo.on.ca/english/9100.shtml - Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
www.cheo.on.ca - Cycle to Walk
www.cycletowalk.com
- Exceptional Family
Resource Magazine for Parents of Exceptional Children
www.exceptionalfamily.ca - Exceptional Parent Magazine
Provides information, support, ideas, encouragement & outreach for parents and families of children with disabilities, and the professionals
who work with them.
www.eparent.com - Family Education Network
www.familyeducation.com - Family Net
Family Net includes a wide variety of valuable information for families of children and youth with disabilities.
www.oacrs.com/resource-familynet.php - Growing Health Canadians: A Guide for Positive Child Development
www.growinghealthykids.com - How to Talk So Kids will Listen
www.fabermazlish.com - Invest in Kids
Invest in Kids aims to strengthen the parenting knowledge, skills and confidence of all those who touch the lives of children from birth to age five.
www.investinkids.ca - Kids Health for Parents
www.kidshealth.org/parent - Kutaways
Coats for wheelchair users
www.kutaways.com - MedicAlert
MedicAlert is the leading provider of medical information services that are linked to customized medical bracelets and necklets.
www.medicalert.ca - McGill University & Yaldei Development Center
Encourages the development of innovative ideas that impact public practices and policies.
www.earlyinterventioncanada.com - Plan-it Safe
Child & Youth Injury Prevention Centre
www.plan-itsafe.com - Poverty Makes Me Sick
www.cheo.on.ca/english/4210.shtml - Ready Web Virtual Library: Tips for Parents
readyweb.crc.uiuc.edu/parents.html - Safe Kids Canada
Works to keep kids safe where they live, learn and play
www.sickkids.ca/safekidscanada - Scadding Court Community Centre
Delivers a wide range of programs and services for seniors, adults, youth and children including recreation programs, sports programs, after four programs, services for new Canadians, health services and much more.
www.scaddingcourt.org - Values Parenting
www.valuesparenting.com - WellChild
WellChild is the UK charity dedicated to the needs of sick children and families.
www.wellchild.org.uk - Work Family Tips: Families Helping Families
www.wft-ifb.ca - YMCA, Greater Toronto
www.ymcatoronto.org - Find My YMCA
www.ymcatoronto.org/en/find-ymca/index.html
Technology
- General Links
- Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
atrc.utoronto.ca - Driver Rehabilitation Services
www.saintelizabeth.com/about-contact-sales-service.php - Tetra Society
www.tetrasociety.org
Terta Society offers a unique program connecting volunteers with technical expertise to create assistive devices for people with disabilities, thus offering individuals greater accessibility within their communities.
Toys
- The Dragonfly Toy Company
www.dftoys.com
- Toy Tips
www.toytips.com
Transitions
- Door 2 Adulthood
www.door2adulthood.org - Gage Transition to Independent Living
www.westpark.org/patientservices/gage.html
For Clients
- Wheel-Trans
www.toronto.ca/ttc/special.htm
For Kids
- 4 Kids TV
Games, videos, message boards & downloads
www.foxkids.com - Ability Online
Free Internet community where young people with disabilities and illnesses connect with all kinds of possibilities.
www.ablelink.org - Band-Aids and Blackboards
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/faculty/jfleitas/bandaides/ - Barbie
www.barbie.ca - Berit’s Best Sites for Children
(Created by TV show Theodore Tugboat)
www.beritsbest.com - Cartoon Network
www.cartoonnetwork.com - KidsCom
www.kidscom.com - Looney Tunes
looneytunes.warnerbros.com - National Geographic
www.nationalgeographic.com - Neuroscience for Kids
faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html - Si Kids
Online counterpart to Sports Illustrated For Kids magazine
www.sikids.com - Yahoo Kids
kids.yahoo.com - YTV
www.ytv.com