Caregiver Resource Database

The Family Hope Center

Our core mission is to partner with families of children who have neurological challenges or disorders. We do this by providing parent training courses and individualized plans for your child.

The Insurance Resource Center

Resources for consumers, providers, clinicians, employers, and educators on issues related to medical insurance for autism and behavioral treatments. This service is based in Massachusettes.

The Jax Memorial Autism Fund

The Jax Memorial Autism Scholarship is available to assist families with resources or funding for their loved one who is on the spectrum. This can be used to purchase sensory items for your child.

The Jiselle Lauren Foundation

The Jiselle Lauren Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that exists to advocate for, connect with, and provide opportunities for children with disabilities. Through generous donations and giving efforts, we are able to provide financial support to children and their families that allows them access to therapies, medical care, devices, equipment, transportation, and many other resources. Our purpose is to bring more joy to these kiddos and their families through everyday moments and experiences.

The Miracle League

The Miracle League removes the barriers that keep children with mental and physical disabilities off the baseball field and lets them experience the joy of America’s favorite pastime.

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

You’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within.

The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living

In this book, he gives readers everything they need to successfully start using the powerful practice of tapping—or Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT).Tapping is one of the fastest and easiest ways to address both the emotional and physical problems that tend to hamper our lives.

The Unforgotten Families

The Unforgotten Families is an advocacy group working to get the family CNA program implemented in every state. This would allow parents to be paid as a caregiver for their special needs child, or a family member can provide the care as well. This could provide some much needed respite and financial relief for special needs families.

Therapy Shoppe

We specialize in sensory products, fidget tools, oral motor chewies, skill-building toys, and occupational therapy supplies.

Toilet Training for Individuals with Autism or other Developmental Disorders

Toilet training can be a battleground for parents and children. In this book―the only one on the market dealing with the specific issues involved in toilet training children with autism―Maria Wheeler offers a detailed roadmap for success, based on over twenty years of experience. Easy-to-read bulleted lists offer over 200 do’s and don’ts presented, along with more than fifty real-life examples. Learn, among other things, how to gauge “readiness,” overcome fear of the bathroom, teach how to use toilet paper, flush and wash up, and deal with toileting in unfamiliar environments. A life preserver for parents and reluctant children!

Tools to Grow

Tools to Grow, Inc. is a place to share ideas and inspire others with engaging print and go resources, interactive digital teletherapy technology activities, handouts, worksheets, activities, games, and educational material.

Trinity

We have trained volunteers who come alongside kids with various special needs so that they may participate and encounter Jesus Christ through His Word and His people. Our special needs ministry is called Special Journeys and we provide this ministry during our 10:30 AM service on Sunday mornings for kids age 3 – grade 8.

Parents’ Night Out is a time for trained volunteers to care for your special needs child(ren) & their siblings (infant-age 11) one Friday each month. Kids will eat a meal, watch a movie, play in the sensory room, or just enjoy playing with other children in our safe environment. Located in Lakeville, MN.

Trinity Lutheran Church

A Sunday morning program for individuals with disabilities was initiated at Trinity Lutheran Church in February of 1972. The approval of our pastor and support of the congregation resulted in a successful experience for 10 young people. Through the continued support of Trinity staff and members, we continue to provide a safe and loving place for individuals with a variety of cognitive and/or physical challenges to come every Sunday morning. Located in Henrico, VA.

Turn Autism Around Podcast

Dr. Mary Barbera, autism mom, BCBA-D, RN, best-selling author of The Verbal Behavior Approach, and online course creator discusses autism from several different angles for both parents as well as medical, educational, and behavioral professionals.

Underestimated: An Autism Miracle

In Underestimated: An Autism Miracle, Generation Rescue’s cofounder J.B. Handley and his teenage son Jamison tell the remarkable story of Jamison’s journey to find a method of communication that allowed him to show the world that he was a brilliant, wise, generous, and complex individual who had been misunderstood and underestimated by everyone in his life.

Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded: A Different Way of Seeing Autism

Autism therapy typically focuses on ridding individuals of “autistic” symptoms such as difficulties interacting socially, problems in communicating, sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. Now Dr. Barry M. Prizant offers a new and compelling paradigm: The most successful approaches to autism don’t aim at fixing a person by eliminating symptoms, but rather seeking to understand the individual’s experience and what underlies the behavior.