Disability Resources
Lakes Region Community Services
LRCS provides direct services to individuals with disabilities throughout their lifetime. These services can include: early supports and services, resource coordination, supported independent living, employment services, and much more.
https://www.lrcs.org/
NH Council on Developmental Disabilities
The New Hampshire Council on Developmental Disabilities is a federally funded agency that supports public policies and initiatives that remove barriers and promote opportunities in all areas of life. The Council is independent of the agencies that provide services to people with disabilities.
www.nhcdd.nh.gov/
New Hampshire Family Voices
New Hampshire Family Voices (NHFV) is part of a network of families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs/disabilities around the nation. NHFV works to assist parents and professionals in navigating the systems of care that deliver services.
nhfv.org/
Community Support Network
It is the mission of CSNI to promote, support and advance the local area agencies in their efforts to maintain and evolve the comprehensive community-based system of long term supports and services.
csni.org/
Northern Human Services (Area Agency for Carroll County)
NHS offers timely and professional services for mental health care, individualized services for persons with a developmental disability or substance abuse counseling.
northernhs.org/
Parent Information Center
The Parent Information Center provides information and support to families and children with disabilities and special health care needs. This support can range from simple information pertaining to the special education process, to direct advocacy for families through these processes, to advocate training programming for parents. On this website, you will find webinars, articles, sample letters, toolkits, and other valuable information to help you make the most informed decisions for your family.
https://picnh.org/
Disability Rights Center
The disability Rights Center assists with the legal needs of people with disabilities across New Hampshire. Some of the issue areas the DRC focuses on include abuse and neglect, access and accommodation, employment, guardianship, and housing.
https://drcnh.org/
UNH Institute on Disability
The institute on disability improves knowledge, policies, and practices related to the lives of people with disabilities and their families. On their website, you can find recent news and research articles, educational opportunities, and webinars on issues pertaining to individuals with disabilities and their families.
https://iod.unh.edu/
New Hampshire Miss Amazing
Providing opportunities for girls and women with disabilities across New Hampshire to build self-esteem.
missamazing.org/chapters/NH
Sesame Street
Sesame Street has a number of resources surrounding a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum diagnosis. This includes videos, games, and story books for children with Autism, as well as their siblings, parents, and other caregivers.
autism.sesamestreet.org/
LRCS provides direct services to individuals with disabilities throughout their lifetime. These services can include: early supports and services, resource coordination, supported independent living, employment services, and much more.
https://www.lrcs.org/
NH Council on Developmental Disabilities
The New Hampshire Council on Developmental Disabilities is a federally funded agency that supports public policies and initiatives that remove barriers and promote opportunities in all areas of life. The Council is independent of the agencies that provide services to people with disabilities.
www.nhcdd.nh.gov/
New Hampshire Family Voices
New Hampshire Family Voices (NHFV) is part of a network of families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs/disabilities around the nation. NHFV works to assist parents and professionals in navigating the systems of care that deliver services.
nhfv.org/
Community Support Network
It is the mission of CSNI to promote, support and advance the local area agencies in their efforts to maintain and evolve the comprehensive community-based system of long term supports and services.
csni.org/
Northern Human Services (Area Agency for Carroll County)
NHS offers timely and professional services for mental health care, individualized services for persons with a developmental disability or substance abuse counseling.
northernhs.org/
Parent Information Center
The Parent Information Center provides information and support to families and children with disabilities and special health care needs. This support can range from simple information pertaining to the special education process, to direct advocacy for families through these processes, to advocate training programming for parents. On this website, you will find webinars, articles, sample letters, toolkits, and other valuable information to help you make the most informed decisions for your family.
https://picnh.org/
Disability Rights Center
The disability Rights Center assists with the legal needs of people with disabilities across New Hampshire. Some of the issue areas the DRC focuses on include abuse and neglect, access and accommodation, employment, guardianship, and housing.
https://drcnh.org/
UNH Institute on Disability
The institute on disability improves knowledge, policies, and practices related to the lives of people with disabilities and their families. On their website, you can find recent news and research articles, educational opportunities, and webinars on issues pertaining to individuals with disabilities and their families.
https://iod.unh.edu/
New Hampshire Miss Amazing
Providing opportunities for girls and women with disabilities across New Hampshire to build self-esteem.
missamazing.org/chapters/NH
Sesame Street
Sesame Street has a number of resources surrounding a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum diagnosis. This includes videos, games, and story books for children with Autism, as well as their siblings, parents, and other caregivers.
autism.sesamestreet.org/
Podcasts & Blogs
Disabilities - www.podchaser.com/podcasts/disabilities-79152
This is a podcast for people with disabilities and their caretakers, friends, family or anyone else interested. They talk about disabilities and other things.
EmBRACE IT with Lainie & Estela - Look Good + Feel Good - Living Your Best Life With Disabilities - www.podchaser.com/podcasts/embrace-it-with-lainie-estela-1006960
Girlfriends, Lainie Ishbia from Trend-Able.com, & Estela Lugo from the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation, are real, raw & perfectly imperfect in their informal discussions about the trial & tribulations of living with disabilities.
Life's Hidden DisAbilities- www.podchaser.com/podcasts/lifes-hidden-disabilities-1069065
This podcast touches on tough topics on life's hidden disAbilities. Grap some coffee, a tissue or two, a cozy blanket and settle in.
You can find more podcasts with similar topics at www.podchaser.com/search/podcasts/q/disabilities
Curb Free with Cory Lee Blog - curbfreewithcorylee.com/
This is a podcast for people with disabilities and their caretakers, friends, family or anyone else interested. They talk about disabilities and other things.
EmBRACE IT with Lainie & Estela - Look Good + Feel Good - Living Your Best Life With Disabilities - www.podchaser.com/podcasts/embrace-it-with-lainie-estela-1006960
Girlfriends, Lainie Ishbia from Trend-Able.com, & Estela Lugo from the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation, are real, raw & perfectly imperfect in their informal discussions about the trial & tribulations of living with disabilities.
Life's Hidden DisAbilities- www.podchaser.com/podcasts/lifes-hidden-disabilities-1069065
This podcast touches on tough topics on life's hidden disAbilities. Grap some coffee, a tissue or two, a cozy blanket and settle in.
You can find more podcasts with similar topics at www.podchaser.com/search/podcasts/q/disabilities
Curb Free with Cory Lee Blog - curbfreewithcorylee.com/
Books
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Alice Wong
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others are less apparent; but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
By Rebekah Taussig
The disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty offers an honest look at disability and its effects on identity, love, money and self-worth by processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful portrait of a body that looks and moves differently.
Diary of a Young Naturalist
By Dara McAnulty
As well as Dara's intense connection to the natural world, Diary of a Young Naturalist captures his perspective as a teenager juggling exams, friendships, and a life of campaigning. You see his close-knit family, the disruptions of moving and changing schools, and the complexities of living with autism.
Check out these links for more books:
www.nypl.org/blog/2021/07/02/books-celebrate-disability-pride
bookshop.org/lists/disability-pride-month-recs
Kid Books - www.fppl.org/2021/07/05/disabilitypridemonth/
Edited by Alice Wong
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others are less apparent; but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
By Rebekah Taussig
The disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty offers an honest look at disability and its effects on identity, love, money and self-worth by processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful portrait of a body that looks and moves differently.
Diary of a Young Naturalist
By Dara McAnulty
As well as Dara's intense connection to the natural world, Diary of a Young Naturalist captures his perspective as a teenager juggling exams, friendships, and a life of campaigning. You see his close-knit family, the disruptions of moving and changing schools, and the complexities of living with autism.
Check out these links for more books:
www.nypl.org/blog/2021/07/02/books-celebrate-disability-pride
bookshop.org/lists/disability-pride-month-recs
Kid Books - www.fppl.org/2021/07/05/disabilitypridemonth/
