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Provides referrals to the appropriate school district's Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE) for evaluation to determine the needs of preschoolers with special needs. Offers information regarding services that may be available to children with disabilities who are age 3-5.

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Disease / Disability Information
Specialized Information and Referral
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Offers many support and peer groups for individuals with disabilities including social and recreational gatherings. The groups are facilitated by individuals. Call for specific information. Groups are available for youth and adults.

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Parents With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Families / Friends of People With Disabilities
Health / Disability Related Support Groups
Visual Impairments
Deafness
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Brain Disorders
Hard of Hearing
Adults With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Provides referrals to the appropriate school districts Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE) for evaluation to determine the needs of preschoolers with special needs. Offers information regarding services that may be available to children with disabilities who are age 3-5.

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Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Specialized Information and Referral
Provides referrals to the appropriate school districts Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE) for evaluation to determine the needs of preschoolers with special needs. Offers information regarding services that may be available to children with disabilities who are age 3-5.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Provides referrals to the appropriate school districts Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE) for evaluation to determine the needs of preschoolers with special needs. Offers information regarding services that may be available to children with disabilities who are age 3-5.

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Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Specialized Information and Referral
Provides information and referral and advocacy services for health and related topics to families of children, from birth to 21 years of age who have, or are suspected of having a serious or chronic healthcare condition.

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Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Specialized Information and Referral
Provides information and referral services for health and related topics to families of children, from birth to 21 years of age who have, or are suspected of having a serious or chronic healthcare condition.

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Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Specialized Information and Referral
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Offers many support and peer groups for individuals with disabilities including social and recreational gatherings. The groups are facilitated by individuals. Call for specific information. Groups are available for youth and adults.

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Parents With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Families / Friends of People With Disabilities
Health / Disability Related Support Groups
Visual Impairments
Deafness
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Brain Disorders
Hard of Hearing
Adults With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Provides families, educators, early interventionists, medical professionals, employers, and the community at large with resources to support individuals with disabilities, enabling them to become active members of their communities and meet their full potential in all aspects of life. The CCI provides multi-faceted assistance and enrichment through a variety of resources, services, events, programs, seminars, and workshops. Call for more detailed information.

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Developmental Disabilities
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Special Education
Private Colleges / Universities
Offers monthly 4 hour respite for children with disabilities and their siblings enrolled in program. Parents drop off their children, who are cared for by Director of LITLC, students from Lynbrook High School, and other communities. Program includes dinner, crafts, music, and playtime.

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Siblings of People With Disabilities
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Helps people with special needs develop strength, confidence, and increased self esteem. Offers private 30 minute sessions, as well as group sessions.

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Horseback Riding
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Rehabilitation / Habilitation Services
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Volunteer Opportunities
Rehabilitative / Habilitative Medicine Associations
Equestrian Therapy
Offers a scheduled proactive experience for children with developmental disabilities ages 7 and up and adults who live with their family in Suffolk and Nassau County. Respite is available seven days a week for two individuals at a time.

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Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Respite / Home Health Care Volunteer Opportunities
Out of Home Respite Care
Respite Care
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Specializes in working with children who have a brother or sister with special needs. Adult volunteer mentors give these children special one-on-one attention in a one-to-one, professionally supported relationship, monitored by dedicated case manager. Volunteers are screened and trained. Also match the special needs children with volunteers whenever appropriate.

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Mentoring Services Volunteer Opportunities
Adult / Child Mentoring Programs
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Provides short-term skilled care and support services at home for patients with disabilities and complex medical conditions from newborn to 44 years of age. Offers a family-centered, team approach to caregiving with the goal of improving patients' independence and quality of life. Treats patients with a wide spectrum of health conditions including Cerebral Palsy, HIV/AIDS, seizures, Failure to Thrive, Hydrocephalus, Diabetes and Asthma. Offers physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapy, specialized pediatric nursing, private duty nursing, home health and personal care aides, skilled nursing visits, palliative care, medical equipment and supplies.

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Home Health Care
Parents With Disabilities / Health Conditions
People With Chronic Illnesses
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Provides a range of specialized assessments and evaluations of developmental, learning, neurologic and psychiatric issues in children, adolescents, and young adults. Serves any child ages preschool through young adult who is struggling academically and/or experiencing emotional or behavioral problems related to a neuropsychological deficit. Parent and professional education workshops are offered by North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center staff who have expertise in child development and neuropsychology. Offers school consultation to help educators work with children with neuropsychological deficits more effectively.

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Workshops / Symposiums
Clinical Psychiatric Evaluation
Neurological Impairments
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Psychological Assessment
Young Adults
Volunteer Opportunities
Provides dances, basketball leagues and computer classes for special needs children of Nassau County.

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Disability Related Sports
Computer and Related Technology Classes
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Developmental Disabilities
Provides referrals to the appropriate school district's Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE) for evaluation to determine the needs of preschoolers with special needs. Offers information regarding services that may be available to children with disabilities who are age 3-5.

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Disease / Disability Information
Specialized Information and Referral
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Offers a team approach (nurses, social workers, therapists and nutritionists) to provide patient/family centered asthma education and manage asthma care at home. Services include medication management, environmental and lifestyle assessment, emergency management and health monitoring through a telehealth program. Works collaboratively with patient's physician to follow treatment plans and manage asthma effectively. Communicates with school health staff and educators as needed to support children attending school.

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Asthma
Home Telemedicine
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Home Health Care
UPSD is a source for information on all actions of government that affect individuals with disabilities and their families. UPSD is committed to alerting the community, the press, and congressmen before decisions are made that affect its members. Provides at no cost the Toys 'R' US Toy Guide For Differently-Abled Kids. Publishes a newsletter, The Voice, Our National Newsletter. Visit the website and the UPSD link for monthly national news updates and membership information.

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Volunteer Opportunities
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Families / Friends of People With Disabilities
Provides early intervention for children birth to five, including speech/language therapy, physical and occupational therapy, special education (self-contained and integrated classes), adapted physical education, computer education, play therapy and family counseling. Also offers a nursery school, Pre-K, day care and a special program for children with autism spectrum disorders. Call for more information.

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Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Special Preschools
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities / Delays
Adapted Physical Education
Provides recreation respite services for families with developmentally disabled children ages 21 and under two Saturdays per month.

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Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Families / Friends of People With Disabilities
Developmental Disabilities
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Caregivers
Provides individualized programs for students in grades 1-12 with AD/HD and learning disorders.

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Private Schools
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Secondary / High Schools
Learning Disabilities
Elementary Schools
Middle Schools
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Provides a religious school for Jewish children with special needs. Also offers cultural enrichment, parent support groups and socialization groups.

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Intellectual Disabilities
Jewish Community
Developmental Disabilities
Learning Disabilities
Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Offers multiple canine-assisted activities, utilizing certified therapy dogs who engage with participants in one-on-one experiences including elements found in canine sports. Participants include a large variety of individuals and groups of children and adults with and without special needs.

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Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Adults With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Pet Assisted Therapy
Provides evaluations and therapies for children birth through age five in their homes or in a preschool/daycare facility setting. Offers services in Arabic, Chinese, Creole, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish and Urdu. Please call for an appointment.

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Children and Youth With Disabilities / Health Conditions
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities / Delays