Intellectual Disability (ID)
Intellectual Disability (ID)
- Behavior Treatment Services - Provides assessment and short-term treatment for children and teens with developmental delay or disability and challenging behaviors.
- Community Consultation Program - Provides technical assistance, training, and continuing education to schools, community and state agencies that provide services to children with learning and behavioral challenges.
- OPWDD Community and Home Intervention and Response Program (CHIRP) - Provides services to individuals with a developmental or intellectual disability living in Monroe County with significant behavioral difficulties.
- Pediatric Feeding Disorders Program - Provides assessment and treatment for children who have difficulty eating related to food selectivity, food refusal, and disruptive mealtime behavior.
- Child Neurology - Assures children have the evaluation and treatment they need for seizures or other neurologic issues.
- Dental Department - Helps children maintain good oral health.
- Pediatric Gastroenterology - Evaluates and offers suggestions for treatment for problems with slow bowel motility, constipation, or gastroesophageal reflux (GER).
- Pediatric Genetics
- Pediatric Orthopaedics - Monitors and treats bone and muscle issues.
- Pediatric Sleep Medicine Service - Evaluates and treats sleep problems.
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Provides outpatient evaluation and intense and targeted therapy programs for children and teens.
- Speech Pathology Department - Meets the needs of children who have difficulties with speech, communication, oral-motor control, and feeding/swallowing.
- American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- The Arc for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - Promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.
- The Arc New York Chapters
- Best Buddies International - A nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with intellectual and developmental disabilities form meaningful friendships and become integrated into society.
- Center for Parent Information and Resources - National information center for children with disabilities.
- Special Olympics New York
- Parent to Parent of New York State
- Intellectual Disability by James C. Harris-ISBN: 9780195145724 Publication Date: 2010-06-24
- A Different Kind of Perfect by Bernadette Thomas (Editor); Neil Nicoll (Editor); Cindy Dowling-ISBN: 9781590303078 Publication Date: 2006-09-12
- Why Are You Looking at Me? by Lisa Tompkins-ISBN: 9781481711388 Publication Date: 2013-01-01
- I Can, Can You? by Marjorie W. Pitzer-ISBN: 9781890627577 Publication Date: 2004-05-01
- Don't Call Me Special by Pat Thomas; Lesley Harker (Illustrator)-ISBN: 9780764121180 Publication Date: 2002-05-01
- Tru Confessions by Janet Tashjian-ISBN: 9780312372736 Publication Date: 2007-10-16
Resources
Visit the Intellectual Disability LibGuide for resources.