Welcome to Hand to Hold’s Interactive Resource Directory of health care providers and organizations offering a wide variety of information, support, products and services to families who have had a child born early, a baby with a special health care need or a loss. Find out more or add your organization to our directory.
Entries for Resource Directory Listings
| Organization Name | City | State / Province | Organization Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.W.A.R.E.-Always Wanted a Riding Experience: Therapeutic Riding View Website | San Marcos | TX | Provides therapeutic horseback riding for clients age 24 months and up with any physical or mental disability. |
| ABC Therapeutics Occupational and Physical Therapy View Website | East Amherst | NY | Private occupational and physical therapy practice and approved early intervention providers in New York State. We also provide private services for families who do not qualify or who are waiting for early intervention approval. |
| ABLEDATA View Website | Silver Spring | MD | AbleData provides objective information about assistive technology products and rehabilitation equipment. Their website a wide array of Assistive Technology products, as well as a description of each. It also lists prices and manufactures of the products listed. Sponsored by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and U.S. Department of Education. This site should be used primarily to familiarize oneself with what is available in Assistive Technology. Always consult with a qualified professional before making any decisions to purchase. |
| Accessibility Guide for Educators View Website | This free downloadable guide from Microsoft provides information about accessibility and accessible technology to help educators worldwide ensure that all students have equal access to learning with technology. Microsoft supports the personalized learning vision by providing technology that is accessible to every student—regardless of ability. For educators new to accessibility and working with students with disabilities, accessibility can seem overwhelming. To help educators teach students with all types of abilities, you will find specific information about each type of impairment and accessible technology solutions. This guide provides: * An understanding of accessibility and how it impacts the classroom * Definitions of impairment types and technology solutions for each type of impairment * Guidance on choosing accessible technology solutions * Resources for more information | ||
| ADD Resource Center View Website | New York | NY | Proven, practical programs, information and services For dealing with the challenges of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD) and related issues. Contains more than a hundred articles on topics such as screening, education, parenting, and medication. This is the group associated with the critically-acclaimed film, "ADD and Loving It: The Documentary." This film is available online, for sale, or on your local PBS station. |
| Alternatives 4 Kids – BIA4Kids (Brain Injury) View Website | Alternatives 4 Kids is a Yahoo listserv group that provides information and support for the parents of children who suffer from brain injury and related diagnosis. This group is moderated by parents. | ||
| American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) View Website | Rockville | MD | The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is committed to ensuring that all people with speech, language, and hearing disorders receive services to help them communicate effectively. ASHA is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for audiologists, speech-language pathologists and speech, language, and hearing scientists. They provide information for families on hearing, balance, speech, language, communication, and swallowing. |
| Angel Bracelets View Website | Angel Bracelets was founded to help other people who have lost a baby or a child, whether by miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss (SIDS, etc) or disease; who are currently coping with a terminally ill child; or who are coping with a premature infant. Angel Bracelets does this in several ways. They provide a page where people can post the stories of their babies/children. They also offer memorial & support jewelry that can be personalized to includes names, dates – anything that will fit within the text limitations of the items. They also donate $2 for each item sold to charity that purchasers may select. | ||
| Angels in my Heart View Website | Author Kathleen Olowin’s website for her book Angels in My Heart: A Journey of Love and Loss. This book includes chapters on the process of grief, how men and women grieve differently, the hurtful things people say when trying to offer comfort, and how to support someone enduring a loss. | ||
| Anne Holden, LCSW View Website | Austin | Texas | Counseling for women and families who have experienced fertility struggles, pregnancy loss or losses, the death of an infant, premature birth and post-partum depression. She also supports families through the sometimes difficult, but often joyful, process of parenting a child with special needs. Also provides services in Spanish. |
| Any Baby Can View Website | Austin | TX | ECI Provider for Travis County. Serves zip codes 78610, 78612, 78617, 78702, 78704, 78719, 78721, 78725, 78741, 78742, 78744, 78747. |
| Any Baby Can - CARE Program View Website | Austin | TX | C.A.R.E. = Comprehensive Advocacy and Resources for Empowerment. The CARE Program offers comprehensive family support for families caring for a child through age 21 with chronic illness or development delays. Social Workers provide an array of case management services to address the needs of the whole family. Families work with a social worker to coordinate access to health and social service providers. The social worker develops goals with the family to maximize their child’s health and the family’s well-being. The social worker meets with families at the location most convenient for the family – in their home, at the hospital, at school or at Any Baby Can offices. |
| Any Baby Can - Nurse Family Partnership View Website | Austin | TX | The Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) is a free program that helps low income, first-time mothers and their children with registered nurses serving as home visitors. Services begin prenatally and continue with child development education until the child is two years old. NFP home visitors work with families to achieve three main goals: 1. Improve pregnancy outcomes by helping women engage in good preventive health practices. 2. Improve child health and development by helping parents provide responsible and competent care. 3. Improve the economic self-sufficiency of the family by helping parents develop a vision for their own future, plan future pregnancies, continue their education and find work. |
| Any Baby Can Child and Family Resource Center View Website | Austin | Texas | Any Baby Can Child and Family Resource Center's mission is to improve the lives of children by strengthening them and their families through education, therapy and family support services in the Central Texas area. Any Baby Can provides support for families caring for a child with special needs, therapies and support for children with, or at-risk for developmental delays, prenatal education to at-risk pregnant women, and childbirth, parenting and literacy programs for the community in general. |
| Apple Accesibility View Website | Guide to making your Apple products more adaptable. Apple includes assistive technology in its products as standard features — at no additional cost. For example, iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Mac OS X include screen magnification and VoiceOver, a screen-access technology, for the blind and visually impaired. To assist those with cognitive and learning disabilities, every Mac includes an alternative, simplified user interface that rewards exploration and learning. And, for those who find it difficult to use a mouse, every Mac computer includes Mouse Keys, Slow Keys, and Sticky Keys, which adapt the computer to the user’s needs and capabilities. Templates for modifying products, information on accessible gaming, and third-party solutions for products are available in the resource section. | ||
| ARC of the Capital Area View Website | Austin | TX | The Arc of the Capital Area, a non-profit organization, is committed to promoting independence and choice by providing individualized services to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. |
| Austin Area OB/GYN & Fertility View Website | Austin | Texas | Austin Area OBGYN is a full service practice for women’s health in Central Texas and located within St. David’s Women’s Center of Texas. All physicians are board certified and well trained in normal and complicated obstetrical management, advanced gynecologic treatments and surgeries, and a full-range of infertility care. |
| Austin Area Speech and Language View Website | Austin | TX | Austin Area Speech Therapy & Language Services is an affiliate of Therapy One, a locally owned umbrella organization providing primarily speech and language services but also offering Occupational Therapy at some locations. Therapy One has three locations throughout Austin. Austin Area Speech and Language is proud to recommend any clients to either one of the other Therapy One practices if you do not live within driving distance of our office. |
| Austin Family Institute View Website | Austin | TX | Austin Family Institute is an outpatient interdisciplinary practice which offers individual, marriage, family therapy, and group therapy for the Austin community. They also provide continuing education to the professional mental health community locally and statewide. |
| Austin Health Works View Website | Austin | TX | Austin HealthWorks is a private practice owned and operated by therapists. AHW offers a full spectrum of care from health and wellness promotion to rehabilitation to chronic pain management. Services provided include: Physical therapy, Occupational therapy, Hand therapy, Sports medicine, Ergonomics, Wellness Programs, Corporate Wellness, Work Related Injury, Prevention and Management, Functional Capacity Evaluations, Pre-Employment and Post-Offer tests, Reasonable Accommodation consultations, Chronic Pain Management, Adaptive equipment evaluations and training, and Custom Splinting. |
| Austin Kids Teeth View Website | Austin | Texas | Austin Kids Teeth is a practice of three pediatric dentists in South Austin with an additional location in Buda. Because Pediatric dentists understand the nature of children, they are also diligent about being available for after hour emergencies. Often parents of children with special needs do not take their child to the dentist for fear that the child will be unable to cooperate. Pediatric dentists have special training in helping all children get through a dental examination and fillings too, if needed. All children and teens are welcomed and the invite your call to have your questions answered. |
| Austin Mothers of Multiples View Website | Austin | TX | Supports the parents and guardians of multiple-birth children in the greater Austin area. AMOM is a member of the National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs and of Texas Mothers of Multiples. We meet on the last Monday of every month except May and December at St. George's Episcopal Church in Central Austin. |
| Austin Music Therapy View Website | Austin | Texas | Music therapy is a professional health discipline that uses music to achieve non-musical goals. Austin Music Therapy aims to improve functioning in motor coordination, attention, memory and emotional well-being. Active music making recruits many areas of the brain at once making music therapy a great tool to address functioning in motor, cognitive and emotional areas. Whether one is singing, drumming or playing the piano, we use music making as a key part of therapy sessions to address the needs of the client. |
| Austin Pediatric Surgery View Website | Austin | Texas | The doctors of Austin Pediatric Surgery (APS) are surgical specialists for infants, children and adolescents. From the repair of an inguinal hernia to the complex care of a premature baby with congenital anomalies, the surgeons of APS have committed themselves to providing state of the art pediatric surgical care for the children of Central Texas. We utilize the most advanced surgical techniques and minimally invasive technologies and build on over 20 years of experience in caring for infants, children and adolescents in our community. Also they have a location in Cedar Park, Texas. |
| Austin Perinatology Associates View Website | Austin | Texas | The goal of Austin Perinatal is to guide each patient through the physical, psychological and emotional issues that may occur in the face of their complex pregnancy. We work closely with each patient's generalist obstetrician utilizing the most sophisticated imaging technology, careful interpretation, and individualized therapy custom fit for each and every patient. |
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