PTLive - Protected Tomorrows Special Needs Directory

We provide homeschool classes, academic summer session and individualized tutoring for students, pre-K through college, with distinctive learning styles. New student discounts and free diagnostic testing.

This site contains contemporary products for students across the disability continuum, k-12. Features teacher created materials for staff development.

Attorneys for Children represents children with special needs and advocates on their behalf for special education services. Attorneys for Children provides legal representation of children in connection with special education needs, pediatric personal injury and malpractice, guardianship, and custody issues.

A Healthy Birth offers assistance to couples or moms who are trying to conceive, pregnant, preparing for a birth, and new parents. We offer childbirth education in a class setting or one-on-one, prenatal & postpartum massage therapy, infant massage instruction, and labor support. With over 13 years experience, always, our goal is to help you become active and aware participants in your birth-related experiences. (ahealthybirth@comcast.net)

We provide a need analysis and skill set evaluation for the development of a home study program. Clients are matched with software and special needs materials to help encourage skill development and increase efficiency of therapy models from home. Student see excellent progress towards goals with drill and practice at home.

The Blind Babies Program promotes early development with a special emphasis on vision skills to minimize developmental delays for children 0-5 years old. The Children's Program supplements services already offered by the school system to foster the child’s learning and ability to function independently. The Transition Program assists students who are blind or severely visually impaired in moving from from high school to post secondary education and careers.

Provides assessments, tutoring, consultation to parents and schools for kids with special needs. We utilize...many methodologies...(including) multi-sensory reading/comprehension techniques.

Focused Learning Solutions, is dedicated learning for children with significant disabilities. Its primary focus is children on the Autism Spectrum, girls with Rett Syndrome and children who are nonverbal with motor issues. Every child with special needs presents as a puzzle and as such, deserves a focused solution.

At Handwriting Without Tears, our mission is to make learning and teaching easy and fun by providing superior educational products, training, and promotional materials to educators and parents. We are the leaders in providing easy-to-learn, easy-to-teach, developmentally appropriate, and inclusive materials to preschool and elementary students throughout the U.S. Last year, more than two million students learned to write successfully using the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum. The Get Set for School™ preschool program is used by thousands of public and private preschools to develop handwriting and other school readiness skills.

Hope Haven Children’s Clinic and Family Center, a nonprofit organization, serves children, young adults and families with a variety of educational, developmental and mental health needs.

an effort to better serve and respond to the changing social service needs of the diverse Chicago community, in July 2006 Jewish Children’s Bureau and Jewish Family and Community Service merged into Jewish Child & Family Services. With over 150 years of expertise and dedication to our credit, we are Chicago’s premier social service agency that restores hope and builds community.

The Learning Disabilities Association of Hawaii (LDAH) is a non-profit organization founded in 1968 by parents of children with learning disabilities.

Training/Consultation Services The LRC staff provides regional in-service workshops, training institutes, statewide conferences, consultations, LRC orientations, and technical assistance to educators and parents of students with disabilities. A $2.00 annual membership fee provides access to the following LRC services: Information Services, Materials Circulation Services, Production Services, Van Outreach Services

We offer Cognitive Skills Assesments and Training to identify and then strengthen weak cognitive skills associated with many learning disabilities and brain injuries. Clients include those dealing with Autism-Aspergers, Dyslexia-Dyscalculia, Traumatic Brain Injury, ADHD, PDD, and many other reading and learning difficulties.

Founded in 1986 by Nanci Bell and Patricia Lindamood, Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes is dedicated to enhancing human learning. Our critically acclaimed instructional programs teach children and adults to read, spell, comprehend, and express language. Instruction is attained directly through our Lindamood-Bell® Learning Centers or our Professional Development services. We offer workshops for teachers, on-site school partnerships, and other options. Our instructional models are effective for all ages and have also been found successful for those with a previous diagnosis of dyslexia, hyperlexia, ADD/ADHD, CAPD and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

We have become the largest specialty consultancy in the Northeast and one of the largest in the US by holding strictly to our narrow market focus and by employing staff who have the personal and professional qualifications to meet the mission. All our consultants are qualified at least at the Master’s level. As you read the individual staff biographies you will see we also look for relevant professional experience far beyond academic training.

NACD provides neurodevelopmental evaluations and individualized programs for children and adults, updated on a quarterly basis. As a family-centered organization, NACD stresses parent training and parent implementation of the program. NACD utilizes the newest strategies that yield success and incorporates them into programs custom-designed for each client. Support is provided to families through video reviews, e-mail and telephone sessions. Through frequent contact with staff and other families, parents are well-informed and well-educated in relationship to their child’s progress. NACD chapters can be found across the United States. International services are provided through videotaping and phone conferences.

netIEP is a revolutionary, online special education management solution. This customizable, web-based individualized education plan is designed to save special educators from excessive time, worry and frustration associated with entering and reporting individualized education plans. By organizing and streamlining the special education processes, netIEP also helps your district remain compliant with federal and state regulations (including those relating to IDEA) as well as state laws and school district policies. netIEP makes it easy for educators to offer K-12 students and their parents a powerful and successful education plan. For more information, please visit www.netIEP.com or contact us at 1.800.490.9686. For more information on our other products, please visit www.netchemia.com.

Melmark is a comprehensive multi- service provider of residential, educational, therapeutic, and recreational services for children and adults with developmental disabilities including autism spectrum disorders, acquired brain injury, other neurological and genetic disorders, and related challenging behaviors.

The mission of People Services, Inc., is to serve as the local community agency, providing the delivery of quality services for people with disabilities. Our purpose it to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities by providing services that promote life exploration and informed choices. To offer an array of service options that are designed to meet the needs, wants and desires of the person served.

For more than 50 years, SCVBC has provided support to individuals facing the uncertainties, fears, and challenges related to uncorrectable vision loss. We are a community-based organization dedicated to increasing the confidence, independence, and quality of life of the blind and visually impaired. SCVBC tackles complex vision loss issues comprehensively through rehabilitative, educational, and recreational services that ensure the long-term independence and empowerment of our clients.

The purpose of the Utah Personnel Development Center is to respond to statewide personnel development needs as identified by the Utah Special Education Consortium for students with disabilities.

WilPower, Inc. provides psychiatric rehabilitation and supportive housing for people disabled by chronic mental illnesses.