Category: Tampa Bay

Easterseals provides exceptional services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people living with autism and other disabilities can live, learn, work, and play in our communities. The Murray Child Development Center provides childcare, parental support, and early intervention services needed to support success.

Guiding and empowering families to become collaborative, effective advocates for their
child with special needs by providing information, help and support to promote academic
and social success in school and within the community.

Focus Academy’s special needs education program for students ages 14-22 is structured with dual purposes: academic achievement and social success. We offer differentiated, individualized instruction, but emphasize a full high school experience including creative arts, physical education and state of the art technology. Our post-high school Transition Program moves students into the community to continue building independence, self-esteem, and workplace competence.

Ages 8 and Up, Providing safe, enriching, and affordable sailing for Asperger’s and
High Functioning individuals within the autism spectrum disorder. It allows them to
explore and develop social skills that will empower them to continue their survival in
the community, to strengthen their self-esteem and to help them become self-sufficient
individuals.

All Ages, Broad reaching educational services for families impacted by Down Syndrome and Special Needs in the West Florida/Tampa Bay Area. Providing family outreach and support, year-round programs, volunteer opportunities for students, financial support and community integration for families impacted by Down Syndrome.

GiGi’s Playhouse provides programs specifically designed for how individuals with Down syndrome learn delivered by a workforce of trained volunteers, many experts in the therapeutic and education fields.

A learning laboratory where children and their parents can learn through play and shared discovery. Our Museum offers 170 ‘interactivities’ in multiple themed areas for families to explore, connect while having fun along the way.

Offering youth transition services to employment as part of our mission of
helping people achieve their full potential through the dignity and power of work.

Providing job training, socialization opportunities, and recreational services to adults with developmental disabilities.

We are ordinary people, providing extraordinary guidance backed by years of experience and advocacy for the vulnerable citizens in our community. The experienced team of attorneys here at Hemness Faller, The Law Office formerly known as Emma Hemness, P.A., are here for you and your family and we want to be YOUR elder law attorneys.

The HCPS Exceptional Student Education Department is dedicated to providing
students with a continuum of services and programs to meet the individual needs of each
student who is eligible for special education and related services, ages 3 through 21.

Offering Speech Therapy services and quality assessments and
individualized treatment programs near you (in-home private speech therapy & other
natural environments).

The leading national provider of comprehensive, quality in-home Applied Behavior Analysis, Speech-Language Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and feeding services for children.

All Ages, Providing personalized, compassionate, family-centered speech and language
therapy to aid in the improvement of your child’s communication skills. Services available
in the home, school, and daycare settings. Accepting the Gardiner Scholarship!

Knowledge really does count!
Our mission is to help you.
Parents can address their child’s communication, educational, and behavioral needs after learning the strategies taught in “Knowledge Counts.” Children are never too young or too old.
This program teaches parents what research recommends and what informed professionals use.
Knowledge Counts (KC) for Children with Autism is an organization on a mission!

Home and community-based ABA therapy for children and teens (ages 3-18).
Focus on natural environment teaching. Emphasis on combining behavioral parent
training with services to help parents implement plans within their natural routines.

lnvo Behavior and Therapy Services is the leading national provider of comprehensive, quality in-home Applied Behavior Analysis, Speech-Language Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and feeding services for children.

MacDonald Training Center (MTC) serves adults with disabilities. Through our vocational skills training, we offer many business solutions to our community. MTC provides day services to people with developmental disabilities including innovative job skills training and live enrichment activities. Employment specialists work with people with a wide variety of disabilities to find and retain community based employment. All of the people for whom we provide residential services live in their own homes and apartments, regardless of their service need.

All Ages, Engaging science and art-based activities that help facilitate positive changes in all aspects of development for children with special needs and otherwise. MOSI is an autism friendly venue. Come explore exciting events and outreach programs.

All Ages, The Penguin Project gives children and young adults with special needs the opportunity to be on stage with peer mentors without disabilities. The Penguin Project demonstrates that the special challenges of a disability should not
handicap a child’s ability to participate in life’s experiences.