MyAutismTeam works to assist parents in connecting with each other and service providers. This website offers a database that allows users to search for local autism providers and businesses. It also serves as a social network to make it easier for parents to share information and experiences with providers with one another.
View the Website – MyAutismTeam
This website, created by the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire to promote person-centered planning, helps individuals with disabilities capture life stories in a way that helps others, such as caregivers and service providers, to better understand their history, preferences and support needs. The planning profile allows users to add and edit events in their timeline and provides an organized way of sharing medical and personal history with trusted support staff.
View the Website – Look Back, Plan Forward
The Grandparent Autism Network is an organization that works to increase support for grandparents of children with autism. It collaborates with other community organizations to provide opportunities for socialization, entertainment, and information sharing for families living in Orange County, California. This website contains resources that may help grandparents improve their understanding of autism, as well as more information about current projects and events.
View the Website – Grandparent Autism Network
ESPA works to promote accessible community transportation for people with disabilities. It offers online and in-person trainings, provides technical assistance through its toll-free hotline and engages in research that examines best practices associated with accessible transportation. Its website contains useful resources and publications on a variety of topics relating to transportation.
View the Website – Easter Seals Project Action (ESPA)
This website provides information that people with disabilities may want to know about transportation options. Resources include national and state-specific organizations that can provide assistance to find public transportation in the community as well as general accessibility tools and guidelines, information on local transportation providers, the latest related news, and more.
View the Website – Disability.gov: Transportation
This is a disability awareness curriculum designed to help children better understand what it means to live with a disability and to encourage them to accept physical, developmental, and intellectual differences that people may have. It provides hands-on activities to help children learn about differing disabilities including autism as well as a teacher’s guide to assist educators in planning lessons that teach students about various disabilities. Materials are available for free download on this website.
View the Website – FRIENDS WHO CARE®
This guide, created by OCALI and the Autism Society of Ohio, provides information about basic concepts related to providing supports for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) across the life span. The sections in this document cover a variety of information on autism such as the definition; medical aspects including screening, diagnosis and interventions; transition from school; and specifically, Ohio’s system of services for individuals ages birth through 3 and their families.
View the Guide – Autism: Reaching for a Bright Future – Service Guidelines for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders through the Lifespan (PDF)
This guide, provided by The Center for Autism & Related Disabilities (CARD), offers suggestions to parents, airport personnel and airline providers to help create a smooth flying experience for children with autism and their families. It provides ideas that parents and caregivers can use to prepare the child for the flight, as well as tips for the flight crew in order to help them better meet the needs of individuals with autism.
View the Guide – CARD: Airports, Airplanes, & Autism (PDF)
This guide, developed by the Autism Society of America, is designed to teach children about autism. It provides answers to common questions that children may have about autism and about differences in how children with autism may act or interact with others. This guide also offers suggestions on how to be a friend to an individual with autism.
View the Guide – The Autism Society of America: Growing Up Together (PDF)
This guide was developed and written by parents of individuals with autism spectrum disorders to provide information and resources to other families living in Kentucky. It is intended to help parents navigate educational services, social service programs and intervention services. This guide also reviews intervention models and strategies and other relevant topics such as future planning and advocacy that may be useful to all parents, regardless of state.
View the Guide – Kentucky’s Family Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorders (PDF)
