Special Needs

Physical Disabilities, Mental Disabilities, & Emotional Struggles

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This is a place you can go to find support for all forms of disability struggles. You will find resources for austism, depression, attention disorders, physical disabilities, and more.

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Resources

Beginning Guidelines and Resources for an Inclusive Church 

Training, Curricula & Safety Forms Special Needs Smart Pages: Advice, Answers and Articles About Teaching Children with Special Needs by Joni Eareckson Tada

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Red Fish Theology / Parables - A How to Guide for Offering a Radically Inclusive Worship Service with the Special Needs Community 

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Misunderstood Minds (A PBS documentary)

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Books

Child by Child: Supporting Children with Learning Differences and Their Families
by Susan Richardson

Helping Kids Include Kids with Disabilities
by Barbara J. Newman

A Place Called Acceptance: Ministry with Families of Children with Disabilities
by Kathleen Deyer Bolduc

Autism and Your Church: Nurturing the Spiritual Growth of People with Autism Spectrum
by Barbara J Newman

Faith, Family, and Children with Special Needs
by David Rizzo

Everybody Is Different: A Book for Young People Who Have Brothers or Sisters With Autism by Fiona Bleach

Maddie: Teaching Tolerance with a Smile by Sean O'Brien

Online Ministries

The Inclusive Church
 
Key Ministry

Christian Learning Center Church Services
 
Faith Inclusion Network 
 
Friendship Ministries
 
Joni and Friends
 
Nathaniel’s Hope 
 
Chosen Families

PURE Ministries 
 
Disability Is Natural
 
99 Ballons
 
Faith Ability: Religion and Disability Resources
 
Disabled Christianity


Online Parent Support

Not Alone 
 
Walk Right In Ministries
 
Parent Blogs

wherelilliblooms.blogspot.com
 
gillianmarchenko.com

Organizations

Muscular Dystrophy Association

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy

United Cerebral Palsy

Blindness: American Council for the Blind, American Foundation for the Blind

Alzheimer’s Association

Hearing Impairments: DOOR International, National Association of the DeafNational Alliance on Mental Illness

Autism: Autism Outreach, Inc., US Autism & Asperger Association

LD OnLine

ADHD: Children and Adults with AD/HD, ADDitude