Family Resources

Welcome to the Family Resources page.

From this page you are able to visit the many links to information, organizations and events of interest to families of children with special health care needs. At Franciscan Hospital, we make every effort to provide parents and other family members with useful resources to help them and their children. If there is an organization that you feel could benefit other parents or caregivers that is not listed here, please contact us with the organization's Web site address. If we feel the information provided on that site can be useful to others, we will include it to our list of links.

American Lung Association

Allergy and Asthma Network - Mothers of Asthmatics

Brain Injury Association of America

Easter Seals

Families for Early Autism Treatment

Muscular Dystrophy Association

National Mental Health Information Center

National Multiple Sclerosis Society

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services

News Visions

Therapro

Intervention Center

American Speech Language Hearing Association

The Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America

AAC-RERC is to assist people who rely on augmentative and alternative communication

Augmentative Communication Inc.

Design to Learn™ . . . for people who live or work with individuals who have severe disabilities.

International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication

United States Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Simplified Technology

The Barkley AAC Center and the Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation at the University of Nebraska

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Connecting Young Kids (YAACK) is a website that covers issues related to AAC and young children. Its purpose is to provide information and guidance to families, teachers, speech/language pathologists and anyone else who is involved with a child with special communication needs.