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Announcing Easter Seals Community OneSource pilot program in Chicago!
Easter Seals Community OneSource helps veterans, veterans with disabilities, and families of veterans to successfully integrate back into their home communities. We’ll help navigate the public and private resources available and make recommendations to fill your individual needs.
Contact Brett Nila 866.423.4981 or learn more on our Web site.

Learn about Autism Services in Your State
Easter Seals and the Autism Society of America (ASA) have partnered to assemble a state-of-the-state report on autism services in the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Learn about the number of children with autism who have received special education services, insurance coverage for autism, educational programs and more. Find your state at: http://www.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=ntlc8_autism_state_profiles

Living with Autism Study Released
Find out what over 2,500 parents of children with autism and typically-developing children had to say about daily life, relationships, finances, healthcare and more. Download this groundbreaking study now.

Celebrate a Restored Americans with Disabilities Act!
On September 25th, President Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act into law. This important legislation broadens protections for people with disabilities and restores the intent of the original Americans With Disabilities Act. This success is the result of cooperation between business groups, disability organizations and bipartisan leadership in Congress ... and dedicated Easter Seals supporters who contacted their elected officials. Join Easter Seals' Legislative Action Network to stay on top of important legislative issues that impact people with disabilities and their families.

 
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Easter Seals Just in time for holiday shopping...
MYTH 10: It is all right for people without disabilities to park in accessible parking spaces, if only for a few minutes.
FACT: Because accessible parking spaces are designed and situated to meet the needs of people who have disabilities, these spaces should only be used by people who need them.

Dawn
Dawn
I know that I use the handicapped stalls even though I do NOT look handicapped. Yes I get some bad looks. But I would never take one over someone visibly handicapped. They would have priority. Mine is a major convenience. Theirs would be total necessity.
9 hours ago
Sara
Sara
Ron- To answer your question, no this only applies to parking spaces. I have a MA disabled person placard and need those spaces as I can't walk long distances. Also, although I am always grateful to an ambulatory person ahead of me in the ladies room who will "forgo" the use of the accessible stall for me, I do not demand they do so.

I hope this helps.
9 hours ago
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Angie Caldwell

Angie Caldwell Hey Everyone, I hope you all had a great/safe Thanksgiving! I am new to this group but I am no stranger to Easter Seals. I worked for Easter Seals of Iowa in many departments for almost 5 years ago I spent the past 2 years volunteering with AmeriCorps but I am now back with Easter Seals of Iowa working in the 24Hr. SCL... program. Easter Seals is where I belong and where my heart is, I have a feeling that Easter Seals will be a part of my life for a very long time as it is for most people who encounter Easter Seals in any shape way or form. Be safe this weekend!

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November 27 at 9:20pm · Report
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Easter Seals Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

November 26 at 7:38am
Angie Johnson
Angie Johnson
yea it was good now ready for bed
November 26 at 3:19pm
S Alicia Seecharan
S Alicia Seecharan
Happy Holidays!
November 27 at 11:26pm
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Easter Seals 's feed: Act for Autism

Traveling with autism
My husband Mike and I are heading north this week to spend Thanksgiving with our son. Gus is 23 years old now, and we look forward to Thanksgiving dinner with him and his three roommates in their Wisconsin group home. When Gus still lived at home with us, our family often spent Thanksgiving Da......

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Lisa

Lisa Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who had visited this site. I'm 35 years old with a disabilit and looking for people who want to talk. Feel free to contact me on facebook or email at sayrelm@verizon.net

November 25 at 7:31am · Report
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Easter Seals Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so we'll be toasting our wonderful supporters, but we give thanks for you all year long!

Take a look at our annual report (this year we've gone paperless and it includes movies!) to see what we do and how we use those vital donations!

Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone!

www.easterseals.com
Easter Seals provides exceptional services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people living with autism and other disabilities can live, learn, work and play in our communities.
Meredith Taubes

Meredith Taubes I love Easter seals for all the love and warm thay have showed my family for years and thay will always be with us .I would say to do anything to help them help others.happy turkey day all with the wish form our family

November 24 at 9:00am · Report
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Easter Seals It’s the busiest travel weekend of the year! In 1986, the Air Carrier Access Act prohibited discrimination against persons with disabilities by all air carriers and provided enforcement under the U.S. Department of Transportation. This Thanksgiving, be thankful for all the legislative landmarks:

Mary
Mary
It's great to be armed with knowledge like this. Some airport gate agents have to be reminded sometimes of this information.
November 24 at 7:44am
Easter Seals

Easter Seals Welcome Stacie! We're glad you found us here on Facebook. Every Easter Seals is a little different because they develop their services around what their community needs. If you have service question, click the link below. But if you have just general questions, feel free to ask them here...we've got a great community who can help.

www.nj.easterseals.com
Enabling individuals with disabilities or special needs and their families to live, learn, work and play in their communities with equality, dignity and independence.
Dawn
Dawn
I just recently got hooked up with Easter Seals for help with rides. I never knew what Easter Seals was or did except that I kept hearing the announcement in my grocery store about supporting Easter Seals. I would just grumble because I feel like I have reached out to anyone I can looking for more resources and can never get any help. So I am ... See Moreasking.. what kind of help is available? I am desperate for a lot of things right now. I am going through a bad divorce and b/c I wouldn't sign the taxes jointly hubby cut me off all money. I get $500 from Disability. He only makes 110k on fake paper but more like 150k in reality. And he won't give me a dime. Yes, it's a long story!! I am in Colorado. Are there any resources for anything? I could desperately use a human to help me do some serious organization of paperwork for this divorce. I am in so much pain from walking to all my appts!!!
Thanks ahead of time for ANYTHING, any tidbit you could share!!! DM
November 23 at 11:00am
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Easter Seals
Dawn, I would talk to the person at Easter Seals who helped you with the rides or fill out this contact us form: http://co.easterseals.com/contactus. If you fill out the form, someone will get back to you via the privacy of email.
November 23 at 11:16am
Dawn
Dawn
Thank you.
November 23 at 11:41am
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Easter Seals 's feed: Act for Autism

Inspired by families living with autism
A lot of people left comments to a New York Times article called Going to Battle Against Autism, and I found myself touched by what those comments said about the dedication of families with autism. I was especially moved by the stories of two parents who were not only stretched p...hysically and em...

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Stacie Mincie

Stacie Mincie HI WE ARE NEW HERE .BUT THIS IS FREDDIE HE IS 4YRS OLD WITH AUTISM. WE LIVE IN MONMOUTH COUNTY . SO I GUESS WE JUST LOOKING TO FIND SOME HELP FOR US SINCE THIS A NEW AREA TO US. ANY HELP OR ADVICE FROM SOON TO BE FRIENDS WE WELCOME WITH A WARM HEART!

Easter Seals

Easter Seals We've gone green and xtreme! Check out our paperless annual report and learn how we’re bridge military and civilian life in “We Are Easter Seals”

www.easterseals.com
Easter Seals provides exceptional services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people living with autism and other disabilities can live, learn, work and play in our communities.
Krista Baker
Krista Baker
Eater seals program is great whe it comes to chilren with any form of autism they sponsor so many programs its great.
November 20 at 4:10pm
Stacie Mincie
Stacie Mincie
NEW HERE .SO GLAD FIRST COMMENTS I SEE ARE ALL MAKING ME FEEL LIKE I FINALLY FOUND A PLACE THAT WILL HELP ME HELP MY SON WHO IS 4YRS OLD WITH AUTISM.
November 22 at 7:07am
Mike Falcon

Mike Falcon Can't wait for the Taste of the Chefs event tonight! Former Easter Seals student, Maite Falcon will be there presenting her Famous and delicious Rum Cakes!

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Mike, how was the event? It sounds delicious!
November 20 at 7:29am
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Easter Seals Disability Etiquette: When greeting a person with a severe loss of vision, always identify yourself and those who are with you. For example, say “On my right is Andy Clark.” When conversing in a group, remember to give vocal cues, like saying the name of the person you are speaking to. Talk in a normal tone of voice, i...ndicate when you move from one place to another and let it be known when the conversation is at an end.

www.easterseals.com
Easter Seals provides exceptional services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people living with autism and other disabilities can live, learn, work and play in our communities.
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Jennifer Lindsay
Jennifer Lindsay
I get a lot out of these posts.
November 19 at 8:44am
Marie
Marie
Hopefully Jennifer, other people will see and read this. The
public is so unaware of how to talk to a person. Don't look
down at the person in a wheelchair, bend down yourself
to be eye to eye. And don't stare at people as you walk
by them! We see you, and your facial reactions are a... See More
bit rude. Hope everyone gets the message. Thank U!!!
November 19 at 9:51am
Marie
Marie
They just don't know how to grow up, or use words of
wisdom, their parents taught them. Goes on and on. :(
Thanks Jennifer.
November 19 at 10:50pm