Residential services for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Bittersweet Inc. is a care and treatment facility for adolescents and adults with autism. We have five main directorates at Bittersweet: Residential; Vocational; Supported Living and Respite; Advocacy and Supported Employment. Our residential program serves 20 persons in three Medicaid Licensed homes on our main campus. The habilitation program at these facilities happens in the morning and in the evening after completing their work. The residential schedules are full of exercise, academic programs and community outings. Habilitation goals of daily
living and skills of adaptive living such as laundry, personal hygiene, meal preparation, and structured social interaction play a large part in the success of our residential program. Our facility has five supported living homes. The participants come to our main campus for day programming and then go back to homes in the community that they share with other participants. Habilitation and skills development continue through all residential programs just as though they were living in our main campus housing. Bittersweet advocates and helps schools through consulting and planning, working with the local courts to advocate on the rights of individuals with autism. We also consult to groups or families to give them assistance on how to best serve persons with autism. We conduct tours to professionals and students to expose them to our model and perhaps to their first experience to someone with autism. Bittersweet offers Respite Services to families

The center for autism at the Cleveland Clinic is a multi-faceted service provider for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and like conditions. The Center offers a full day year-round intensive applied behavioral program for students from earliest diagnosis to age 22 years. The center currently serves 74 full- time students and will accomodate up to 100 full-time students as its state of the art facility is completed in 2008. The center's intensive behavioral early childhood program offers tiered levels of instruction and low ratios. The Center's school program provides intensive communication, behavior academic, social and career development services. The outreach program provides in-home behavioral programming, consultation and training. Diagnostic and medical assessment to the pediatric autism community is also available.The center conducts research in autism treatment.

The Board of MR/DD provides services and supports to more than 8,000 boys and girls and men and women in Cuyahoga County. The community knows us best for our early childhood centers, schools, adult activities centers and group homes, but we're much more than that.

Our full range of services includes everything from in-home early intervention programs for very young children and their families to leisure programs for seniors. Much of what we do goes beyond the walls of our own centers and homes and takes place in the community, where we encourage individuals with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities to live, learn, work and play.

The Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (MR/DD) commited to people with mental retardation and developmental disabilities, their families, the professional staff who support them, their neighbors, their friends, and anyone committed to supporting and advocating for individuals with special needs.

Their website is jam packed with information. It is a must see.

I am an Early Intervention Specialist trained in ABA, Floortime, and other education/assessment tool areas. I have five years of experience working with children who have Autism, PDD, PDD-NOS, and Aspergers. I have worked at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Autism (2 1/2 years) and was the EI Specialist and Coordiantor for the Ashland Co. Board of MRDD. My resume is available upon request. I am looking to work with families in their homes, community, and classroom depending on the needs of the family.

Easter Seals has, for more than 80 years, provided services to children and adults with disabilities and special needs, and their families.

Educational Options is a Comprehensive Educational Consultation and Referral Service for Teens and Young Adults.

We are the first program in the country providing comprehensive transition services to children and adults on the spectrum. We serve the population from the age of 5 and up. We provide social skills groups, life skills training, behavior modification, in-home consultation and care, employment training, transition assistance into secondary education and independent living. We also assist families with navigating the system and getting linked to resources in the community.

The Greater Akron ChapterOHIO) of the Autism Society of America serves Summit, Stark, Portage, Wayne and Medina counties. We offer parent support groups and professional board meetings. We also have a yahoo group.

We are an ODE and Ohio MRDD certified agency that was founded and is operated by a licensed Special Education Instructor. All of our employees have had extensive training in working with individuals with specific needs. We are proud of our reputation for putting our client's needs first and our belief in the individual rights of every person whom we serve.

Lifespan Learning Communities, LLC offers challenging learing communities, relationships, educational and vocational programs for teaching children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury and other related disabilities throughout the life span of the individual.

Autism Scholarship Program

As a provider of services for the Autism Scholarship Program, NCTS is approved by the State of Ohio, Office for Exceptional Children OEC), Department of Education (ODE). See website for details.

Promoting the employment of Ohioans with disabilities.

SANDY CAY, Inc. is a nonprofit organization which assists in the education of children ages 3 and up who exhibit communication, cognitive, behavior and/or social function deficits in Northwest Ohio. SCI serves families by tutoring, mentoring, and running The Bryan Center, educating children with autism, PDD and Asperger's Syndrome.

Our mission is to foster employment opportunities for high functioning individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) which are rewarding to both the individual and the employer.