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Providing Individualized IBI Services for Children with Autism in Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph and Surrounding areas.

The purpose of the Guide is to help employers understand their legal obligations regarding the duty to accommodate, and create their own workplace accommodation policies and procedures.

Canadian Human Rights Commission

Autism Ontario has launched a new website to help parents find Applied Behaviour Analysis services. The website is called ABACUS, and it is a web resource created to both help Ontario parents learn about ABA services and to locate ABA providers in their community.

Ability Online is an extraordinary and absolutely free Internet community. Here, young people with disabilities and illnesses connect with all kinds of possibilities.

Design of adaptive apparel for disabilities, specializing in wheelchair and walker bags, wheelchair-arm pouch for mobile phones, door openers, mail, keys, glasses.

Adaptive sailing programs from across Canada have come together to launch a network so they can better focus their efforts. This, the Able Sail Network, will help the various program operators reach out to funders and people with disabilities that might be interested in the sport.

The ATLC online inventory is a resource that students with disabilities, parents and guidance counsellors can use when thinking about a school and its disability services.

Online, searchable database for information on accessible transportation and travel across Canada

Accessible Canadian Adventures (ACA) designs, coordinates and arranges hunting and fishing adventures specifically for sportsmen and women with physical disabilities.

Real estate agent Peggy Stewart has a special interest in accessible housing. She helps special needs buyers and sellers either find an existing, modified home or sell one they have.

Making Ontario accessible to people with disabilities. Everyone - individuals, communities, businesses and organizations - has a role to play in making this happen. AccessON.ca can help. Here you can learn what you can do - and, in some cases, what you are legally required to do - to make your business or organization welcoming to people of all disabilities.

The vision of Active Cambridge is working to build a more vibrant and active community. For more information on this initiative contact Andy at andy@activecambridge.ca

The Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability (ALACD) promotes supports and enables Canadians with disabilities to lead active, healthy lives. We provide nationally coordinated leadership, support, encouragement, promotion and information that facilitates healthy, active living opportunities for Canadians of all abilities across all settings and environments. 

Active Living Magazine focuses on health, fitness, and recreation for individuals with disabilities. It features articles, information on adaptive equipment and programs, as well as personality profiles. Published six times a year.

The overarching goal of the ATRC is to help ensure that emerging information technology and practices are designed inclusively from the very beginning. We define inclusive design as design that enables and supports the participation of individuals and groups representing the full range of human diversity. We see disability as a mismatch between the needs of the individual and the service, education, tools or environment provided and accessibility as the adaptability of the system to the needs of each individual. Our research, development, education and service are all grounded in this principle.

ARCH Disability Law Centre is a specialty legal aid clinic with a provincial mandate dedicated to defending and advancing the equality rights of persons with disabilities. ARCH was founded in 1979 under its previous name, Advocacy Resource Centre for the Handicapped (ARCH). ARCH is primarily funded by Legal Aid Ontario.

The mission of Asperger's Syndrome Support for Adults is to provide support for those with Asperger's Syndrome in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. This support will focus on, though is not necessarily limited to, group meetings that will give adults with Asperger's Syndrome the opportunity to meet with each other.

ADIO was created to provide a window into the Federal Government for the Assistive Technology (AT) and Rehabilitation Engineering Research Sectors. It also works to ensure that the Industry Portfolio programmes and services are accessible to Canadians with disabilities.

The Association for the Neurologically Disabled of Canada (A.N.D. Canada) is a Canadian non-profit charitable organization.  

We dedicate ourselves to providing functional rehabilitation programs to individuals with neurological disabilities. With the help of A.N.D., higher achievement is within reach. Our goal is to help the neurologically disabled reach their full potential by treating the cause of the neurological disability rather than the symptom.
 

APSGO is an organization of parents of disruptive youth. We have joined together to provide support and empower parents to deal with their situation. The organization provides weekly meetings, workshops and other resources to assist parents in acquiring the skills to help themselves and their children.

Augmentative Communication Community Partnerships-Canada (ACCPC) has posted information about 2009 workshops and seminars.

Is the private practice of Daisy Arseneault, BMusTh, established to meet the individual needs of each family unit through music.

Autism Spectrum Connection Waterloo Region provides an online space for parents who have a child with autism to share their experiences, connect with and support one another. This online community enables parents to tell their stories, contribute information, resources and engage in conversation with other families affected by autism.

In order to provide better insights into the causes and treatments of ASDs, ASD-CARC's goal is to identify and classify subgroups of Autism Spectrum Disorders.