Learning Through Assisting

	Helpful Links to Additional Resources Links in the areas of service learning information, disability resources and community service agencies are provided to get you started. Many will lead to others. How you use them will depend on how much you and your students already know about service learning; what your student needs assessment reveals (does someone in your class have a developmental disability, or a sibling with developmental disability?); or your relationship to/awareness about service agencies in your community.
	ORGANIZATIONS
	ARC of the United States Formerly The Assoc. of Retarded Citizens
	Autism Society of America: ASA Chapters
	United Cerebral Palsy
	Brain Injury Association of America
	PACER Center National Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights
	TASH Equity, Opportunity and Inclusion for People with Disabilities
	National Association for Down Syndrome
	National Down Syndrome Society
	National Down Syndrome Congress
	US Environmental Protection Agency
	Muscular Dystrophy Association
	National Association of Councils on Developmental Disability
	Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council
	Youth Service Alliance
	Bubel-Aiken Foundation

	DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES You can search for a specific type of disability on the website of the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities' website:www.nichcy.org on the A-Z topics link. Some are:
	Autism Behavioral Assesmments Blindness/Visual Impairment Cerebal Palsy Down Syndrome Epilepsy Hearning Impairment / Deafness Learning Disability Mental Retardation Spina bifida Tramatic Brain Injury (TBI)

	LEARNING DISABILITIES
	National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
	ADL Curriculum Connections

	SERVICE LEARNING
	Getting Started
	Building Partnerships
	Evaluating Service Learning