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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.
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.
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 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”
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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.
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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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.Read More
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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.
Easter Seals When we gather for Thanksgiving next week, most of us will be thinking about dinner, not danger. But what too many people don't know is that each year three million Americans become disabled because of preventable accidents in their home.
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Take our quiz as part of your preparations for the holiday weekend, and make sure your home is safe!
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Accessing autism services: why a label matters
Describing someone as having autism tells you a bit about that person. But really … what can you tell from that label? Some people with autism require significant support throughout their lives. Others with ASD move through their daily lives independently. Currently there are three categ...
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Describing someone as having autism tells you a bit about that person. But really … what can you tell from that label? Some people with autism require significant support throughout their lives. Others with ASD move through their daily lives independently. Currently there are three categ...
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Easter Seals "When I think about all that volunteers do today – and the millions and millions of lives we touch – it makes me very proud to be part of such and incredible group of people." Jerry Mattimore, Board Chair, Easter Seals, Inc.
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We've partnered with VolunteerMatch, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help everyone find a great volunteer opportunity.
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Language and labels — what’s the big deal?
Language and labels are powerful. They convey information, inform society and suggest a particular perspective. Labels that are used to describe individuals with disabilities, when used in other contexts, are often derogatory. Pierre Lellouche, French minister to Europe, did just this when descr...
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Language and labels are powerful. They convey information, inform society and suggest a particular perspective. Labels that are used to describe individuals with disabilities, when used in other contexts, are often derogatory. Pierre Lellouche, French minister to Europe, did just this when descr...
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Toni Renae Walker I need to have respite for my husband, he cannot keep on leaving work to help me out such as taking me to Doctors, grocerie shopping, shopping, and so forth
Easter Seals Just saw last week's "Glee." Did anyone else see it? What did you think?
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Are autism service dogs smart?
A story in last Sunday’s New York Times ponders whether service dogs help humans because they are smart, or simply because the rigorous training they go through makes them want to please the person on the other end of the leash. The matter of what exactly goes on in the mind of a dog is a t...
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A story in last Sunday’s New York Times ponders whether service dogs help humans because they are smart, or simply because the rigorous training they go through makes them want to please the person on the other end of the leash. The matter of what exactly goes on in the mind of a dog is a t...
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Patricia Hardin hi john,My name is pat hardin,I am also a advocator for children with dissabilities,I also have a son affected with asd disorder.I would love to read your book
John Hendry
Hi, my name is John Hendry and I have been an advocate for persons with disabilities for many years. I am a professional speaker and author. I have written a motivational/inspirational book for parents of children with disabilities (to be published in January) based on the life of my youngest son born with cerebral pal...sy.
Incidently, my son was chosen as the "Timmy" for the local Easter Seals Campaign on two separate occasions. Keep up the amazing work you do on behalf of children with challenges.Read More
Incidently, my son was chosen as the "Timmy" for the local Easter Seals Campaign on two separate occasions. Keep up the amazing work you do on behalf of children with challenges.Read More
Easter Seals Concerned about an older, unsafe driver in your family? Learn what transportation options are available for older adults:
Source: seniortransportation.easterseals.com
Our mission is to increase transportation options for older adults and enhance their ability to live more independently within their communities throughout the United States.
