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Parent Resource Guide | Disability Specific Organizations

Auditory Impairment/Deaf
Autism
Brain Injury
Cerebral Palsy
Deaf/Blind
Emotional and Behavioral Problems and Disorders
Learning Disability
Mental Retardation
Speech/Communication Impairment
Visual Impairment/Blind

Disability Contact
Auditory Impairment/Deaf

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
31 Center Drive, MSC 2320
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2320

1-800-241-1044
1-800-241-1055 TTY
(301) 402-0018 FAX
www.nidcd.nih.gov

Autism

Autism Society of America
7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 300
Bethesda, Maryland 20814-3067

1-800-328-8476
www.autism-society.org

Brain Injury

Brain Injury Association of Texas
1339 Lamar Square Drive, Suite 103
Austin, Texas 78704

1-800-392-0040 (in Texas)
(512) 326-1212
(512) 326-8088 FAX
www.biatx.org

Brain Injury Society
1901 Avenue N, Suite 5E
Brooklyn, New York 11230

(718) 645-4401
www.bisociety.org

Cerebral Palsy United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) of Texas
5555 N. Lamar Boulevard, Suite L139
Austin, Texas 78751

1-800-798-1492
(512) 472-8696
(512) 472-8026 FAX
http://www.ucp.org/
Deaf/Blind

The National Information Clearinghouse on
Children Who are Deaf-Blind (DB-LINK)

345 N. Monmouth Avenue
Monmouth, Oregon 97361

1-800-438-9376
1-800-854-7013 TTY
(503) 838-8150 FAX
www.tr.wou.edu/dblink/

The National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young Adults Who Are Deaf-Blind (NTAC)
1003 Virginia Avenue, Suite 106
Atlanta, Georgia 30354

(404) 766-5800
(404) 766-4009 TTY
(404) 766-3447 FAX
www.tr.wou.edu/ntac/

Emotional and Behavioral Problems and Disorders

Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
1000 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW Suite 400
Washington, DC 20007

1-888-457-1551
(202) 944-5400
1-877-334-3499 TTY
(202) 944-5454 FAX
http://cecp.air.org/

Learning Disability

The Learning Disabilities Association of Texas
1011 West 3lst Street
Austin Texas 78705

1-800-604-7500 (in Texas)
(512) 458-8234
(512) 458-3826 FAX
www.ldat.org

Learning Disabilities Online
www.ldonline.org/

Mental Retardation

The Arc of the U.S.A.
1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 650
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910

(301) 565-3842
(301) 565-3843 FAX
www.thearc.org

The Arc of Texas
8001 Centre Park Dr.
Austin, Texas 78754

1-800-252-9729
(512) 454-6694
(512) 454-4956 FAX
www.thearcoftexas.org

Speech/Communication Impairment

Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association
P.O. Box 140647
Austin, Texas 78714-0647

1-888-729-8742
(512) 452-4636
(512) 454-3036 FAX
www.txsha.org

Visual Impairment/Blind American Foundation for the Blind (Headquarters)
11 Penn Plaza, Suite 300
New York, NY 10001

(212) 502-7600
(212) 502-7777 FAX
www.afb.org

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