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Oklahoma UCEDD faculty and staff are committed to bringing the perspectives of persons with disabilities and their family members into the planning, implementation, and evaluation of interdisciplinary education programs, community services, research, and dissemination activities.
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) provides services to individuals with special needs and their families through the Developmental Disabilities Services Division (DDSD.) Have you signed up your special needs family member for DDSD programs and services? The application is on this OKDHS website — call us for more information.
“Every child deserves a chance to play baseball” is the mission statement for the Miracle League. This website will touch your heart — it did ours.
Enid’s own Miracle League website.
Host to Make Promises Happen Camp — one of the nation’s oldest and most respected camping experiences for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Make Promises Happen Camp is located in Guthrie, Oklahoma. The 4RKids Foundation offers limited scholarship opportunities for special needs campers.
Check out this total access amusement park in San Antonio, Texas, for children and adults with special needs.
Miracle happening in Enid, Oklahoma every Saturday! Video courtesy of the Enid News and Eagle.
Oklahoma Parents Center is dedicated to the inclusion and equality of chidren and adults with disabilities. Their mission is to train, inform, educate, and support parents, families, professionals and consumers in building partnerships to meet the needs of children and youth with the full range of disabiities. If you are the parent or guardian of a special needs child in school, you’ll want to check out the IEP Checklist found here.
Project SEARCH is an intensive, year-long internship program for developmentally disabled students in the last year of high school. Selected students spend an entire school year inside a host business developing work skills and learning the social behaviors of a successful employee. The goal of Project SEARCH is to provide meaningful,competitive employment for each graduate at the end of the program.
The Oklahoma Family Network (OFN) Family-to-Family Health Information Center informs and connects individuals with special health care needs and disabilities, their families and professionals to services and supports in their communities. The local contact for the OFN is Theresa Sharp who can be reached at 580-977-7479.
