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360oandp.com
Prosthetic and Orthotic Resource
360oandp.com

Amputee Coalition
National Limb Loss Information Center
www.amputee-coalition.org/limb-loss-resource-center/

ACA Parent Support Network
888/267-5669, ext. 8130
The Parent Support Network, a program of ACA’s National Peer Network, can provide contact with another parent that has experienced raising a child with limb loss or limb difference.

Animal O&P
www.AnimalOandP.com

Athletes Helping Athletes
www.roadrunnersports.com
Athletes Helping Athletes provides hand cycles to children with disabilities.

Birth Defect Research for Children, Inc.
www.birthdefects.org
Birth Defect Research for Children is your resource for free birth defect information, parent networking, and birth defect research through the National Birth Defect Registry.

Blaze Sports
www.blazesports.org
BlazeSports America provides sports training, competitions, summer camps, and other sports and recreational opportunities for youth and adults who use wheelchairs, have a visual impairment, have an amputation, or who have a neurological disability such as cerebral palsy or spina bifida. Participant ages range, depending on the program, from 6 years through adulthood.

Bright Way Services Inc.
www.brightwayservicesinc.com
Provides variety of mental health and intellectual/developmental disability services in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties of PA.

Case for Smiles (formerly ConKerr Cancer)
www.caseforsmiles.org
Case for Smiles provides colorful pillowcases to children to help them feel special while battling life-changing illnesses. With the help of volunteers, Ryan’s Case for Smiles has donated more than 1.2 million pillowcases to children staying at area hospitals, as well as at hospitals all across the country.

Center on Technology and Disability
www.ctdinstitute.org
Assistive and Instructional Technology Supporting Learners with Disabilities

Cerebral Palsy Guide
www.cerebralpalsyguide.com
A resource for families and individual affected by this disorder.

1st Cerebral Palsy of New Jersey
www.cerebralpalsycenter.org
For more than 55 years, Cerebral Palsy of New Jersey has provided services, support, education, and advocacy to children and adults with disabilities to help them lead fuller lives at home, at school, at work, and at play.

Challenged Athletes Foundation
www.challengedathletes.org
It is the mission of the Challenged Athletes Foundation to provide opportunities and support to people with physical disabilities so they can pursue active lifestyles through physical fitness and competitive athletics. The Challenged Athletes Foundation believes that involvement in sports at any level increases self-esteem, encourages independence, and enhances quality of life. 

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
www.chop.edu
CHOP provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care and is one of the leading pediatric hospitals and research facilities in the world.

Children's Miracle Network
www.childrensmiraclenetwork.org
Children's Miracle Network is the alliance of premier children's hospitals. There is a Children's Miracle Network hospital dedicated to serving children in every community across the United States and Canada.

Easter Seals
www.easterseals.com/sepa/
Easter Seals provides information, support, ideas, encouragement and outreach for parents and families of children with disabilities, and the professionals who work with them.

Exceptional Parent
www.eparent.com
Exceptional Parent provides information, support, ideas, encouragement and outreach for parents and families of children with disabilities and the professionals who work with them.

Federation for Children with Special Needs
www.fcsn.org
The Federation is a center for parents and parent organizations to work together on behalf of children with special needs and their families. We can help! Organized in 1975 as a coalition of parent groups representing children with a variety of disabilities, the Federation operates a Parent Center in Massachusetts, which offers a variety of services to parents, parent groups, and others who are concerned with children with special needs.

Flat Iron Supports, LLC
flatironsupports.com
Flat Iron Supports, LLC follows ODP's mission to support Individuals with Intellectual disabilities to achieve greater independence, choice, and opportunity in their everyday lives.

Helping Hands Foundation
www.helpinghandsgroup.org
Helping Hands Foundation, Inc. is a not-for-profit support group made up of parents who have children with upper limb differences and who are concerned with the challenges facing the child and the entire family.

Inner Wheel
www.innerwheelusa.com
The Inner Wheel U.S.A. Foundation, Inc., provides myoelectric prostheses to children born without or who have lost an arm or hand through disease or accident.  The clinics work with the children's Myoelectric Limb Project to provide an avenue for children whose insurance or family circumstances do not allow them to benefit from the latest updated technology.

Insure Kids Now!
www.insurekidsnow.gov
Insure Kids Now! is a national campaign to link the nation's 10 million uninsured children--from birth to age 18--to free and low-cost health insurance. Many families simply don't know their children are eligible.

International Child Amputee Network: I-CAN!
www.child-amputee.net
I-CAN is an email support group for adult amputees, parents, and child amputees.

KenCrest
www.kencrest.org
KenCrest supports over 12,500 people to live their best lives. We provide educational services to children and families in Philadelphia. We also provide community-based support services to people with developmental or intellectual disabilitiesand their families in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut.

KidsCamps.com
www.kidscamps.com
KidsCamps.com is an online search engine for camp programs.

Make-A-Wish Foundation® of New Jersey
wish.org/nj
Make-A-Wish® Philadelphia, Delaware & Susquehanna Valley
wish.org/philadesv
Make-A-Wish® Greater Pennsylvania and West Virginia
wish.org/greaterpawv
The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.

Move United
www.moveunitedsport.org
Move United now offers nationwide sports rehabilitation programs to anyone with a permanent disability. Activities include winter skiing, water sports, summer and winter competitions, fitness and special sports events. Participants include those with visual impairments, amputations, spinal cord injury, dwarfism, multiple sclerosis, head injury, cerebral palsy, and other neuromuscular and orthopedic conditions.

National Arts and Disability Center
www.semel.ucla.edu/nadc
The National Arts and Disability Center promotes the inclusion of audiences and artists with disabilities into the art community.

National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
www.ncpad.org
NCPAD is an information center concerned with physical activity and disability.

National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
www.ncset.org
This organization provides resources and information to help create opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures.

National Meningitis Association
www.nmaus.org
NMA’s mission is to educate families, medical professionals, and others about bacterial meningitis and prevention approaches to the disease.

Neshaminy Activity Center
www.neshaminyac.org/transportation-services
A shared ride program for senior citizens and persons with disabilities. The Neshaminy Activity Center is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Department of Aging and the Bucks County Area Agency on Aging.

North American Riding for the Handicapped Association, Inc.
www.mtholyoke.edu/~oeste20a/worldpolitics/narha.html
NARHA is an organization that promotes equine facilitated therapy and activity programs. Their site also has a search engine to look up therapeutic riding facilities by state, disability, and region.

On the Other Hand
www.ontheotherhand.org
This site provides information for individuals with hand anomalies.

Parents Exchange
www.pex.tripod.com
Parents Exchange is an information, referral, and advocacy service for parents and caregivers of children with disabilities and professionals who work with our families. Through support and training, families gain the knowledge, skill, and determination to advocate for their children and make the best choices for their families. 

PFFD VSG2
www.pffd.org
This site is for parents of children with proximal femoral focal deficiency.

SLED Hockey
www.usahockey.com/sledhockey/a>

Starlight Starbright Foundation
www.starlight.org
Starlight Starbright helps seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear, and isolation through entertainment, education, and family activities.

SummerCamps.com
www.summercamps.com
SummerCamps.com provides an online camp resource that offers referrals to camp programs that will meet the needs of campers.

SuperHands
www.superhands.us
SuperHands provides information and resources for children with upper extremity limb differences.

United Cerebral Palsy of Philadelphia and Vicinity (UCP)
www.ucpphila.org
UCP aims to positively affect the quality of life for persons with cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities by providing access to services and programs to help them become independent and productive members of the community.

Unlimbited Possibilities, Inc.
unlimbited.org
This organization assists families with children who have upper limb differences. They are located in the Long Island area of New York.  

Variety - The Children's Charity of Greater Philadelphia
www.varietyphila.org
Variety’s programs and services are designed to best address disabled children’s physical, social, medical, educational, and recreational needs through activities like year-round camp, field trips, and after-school programming, as well as by providing funding for medical equipment.

Voorhees Pediatric Facility (VPF)
www.forkidcare.com
VPF is a 119-bed pediatric facility that has set new standards for skilled nursing and rehabilitative care by caring for the “whole” child. Services include physical and occupational therapies, environmental assessments, advanced pulmonary care, and a state-of-the-art respiratory care program.

VSA arts
www.kennedy-center.org/education/vsa
At VSA arts people with disabilities can learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts.

Waisman Center
www.waisman.wisc.edu
The Waisman Center is dedicated to advancing knowledge about human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases through research, training, service and outreach.

Wrightslaw
www.wrightslaw.com
This site provides information on special education law and advocacy for children with disabilities.