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Offers support groups to assist individuals and their families in coping with the special problems neuromuscular diseases impose.

Children's Developmental Disabilities Service Coordinator may be able to assist with:

• Connecting with financial and/or medical resources

• Finding respite care in or out of home

• Identifying if a child has developmental delays or meet related conditions criteria

• Looking at other family needs involved when caring for a child with developmental delays

• Obtaining in-home medical or therapy services

• Obtaining physical adaptations or equipment for a child

• Planning services in cooperation with schools, public health and other community resources

Provides resources, including newsletters, speakers, social events, library materials available for loan or purchase, and a slide and tape presentation explaining care and treatment of newborns with Spina Bifida; available for in-service programs. Additionally, offers the following:

• Financial assistance may be available for those attending the national conferences

?- Sponsors state conferences held in the spring and the fall

• Serves persons interacting with, or those dealing with, AD/HD

• Free email newsletter

• Speakers bureau

• Monthly meetings

• CHADD National offers a membership that includes magazines, fact sheets, online experts, and more

Provides a specialized communication therapy for children with autism; program teaches parents, caregivers, and educators specific techniques that will make learning to understand and use language more successful for each individual child. Programming includes:

• Evaluation and consultation services

• Parent involved weekly therapy

• Parent support group: Limited childcare for registered children

• Public workshops and parent classes

• Stage Play acting classes through the Duluth Playhouse Children's Theater

Provides an information line for parenting information and education. Services include:

• Parenting warmline in both English and Spanish languages

• Parenting materials and resources for parents

• Parent2Parent peer support group program that matches parents with other parents through the parenting warmline

??Helps parents and others navigate systems that serve children and young adults with disabilities in areas such as special education, mental health, and transition to adulthood. Service areas include:

• Individual assistance: Advocates are available by phone and email to guide families, explain available options, and share additional resources. Advocates who speak Spanish and Somali are available and will work to assist in other languages upon request.

• Information dissemination: Provides printable and online resources with practical tips for accessing services for children and youth with disabilities.

• Trainings and workshops: Provides free virtual and in-person trainings and seminars to educate parents of children with disabilities and professionals on various topics related to special education and other disability services.

Provides educational support and referrals for individuals and parents of children and teenagers who have concerns about attention deficit or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, including:

• Hour-long coaching sessions available to discuss work or academic issues related to ADD or ADHD

• Monthly workshops for adults, parents, and professionals on ADD/ADHD and learning disabilities topics

• Phone and referral information line responds to questions concerning ADD/ADHD

• Support group for adults with ADD/ADHD

Offers the following services:

• Adult health care management program for adults, age 21 and over

• Annual conference for educators, held annually in October

• Annual conference for grandparents, held annually in May

• Annual conference for youth and adults with Down syndrome, held annually in Spring

• Bi-monthly newsletter

• Education packet

• Expectant parent packet for parents with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome

• General information available to anyone including educators and other professionals

• Hospital or home visits for new parents by trained persons

• Information packet for grandparents

• Networking with other organizations

• New parent breakfast

• New parent information packet; mailed to all hospitals in Minnesota with English and Spanish versions available

• Regional conference for parents and professionals held every other year

• Resource library with current information on Down syndrome

• Social activities and informational meetings

• Solutions, a newsletter for educators

?- Support groups for parents of children with Down syndrome

Offers programs and resources to support educators, parents, and students with dyslexia, including:

• Conferences for the interaction and education of parents and professionals

• Educational literature

• List of tutors for students with dyslexia

?- Parent support

• Teacher training workshops on multi-sensory structured phonics (Orton-Gillingham approach) and related reading skills, written expression, and spelling

Provides services during pregnancy and postpartum, services for mothers and infants and services for families of children with special needs. Other specific programs are Follow Along, and Healthy Beginnings.