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Free online magazine for dads focusing on family and finance.

Special Needs Links & Resources

Tell us about your favorite special needs sites and sources of information. Send e-mail to: shelley@buddybike.com

Events & Activities

Go Team Cycle4sickchildren!
Buddy Bike, LLC is proud sponsor of Team Cycle4sickchildren! This unique cycling club in Ireland raises awareness of children's disabilities & importance of inclusion while raising funds for services & organizations like The Ronald McDonald House & The Jack & Jill Foundation.

Buy your Team Cycle4sickchildren cycling shirt!
Cost is 60 euros (approx $76US). 10 euros will go to a children's charity.

Paralympic Partners
Buddy Bike, LLC is proud to be a Miami-Dade County Parks & Recreation Paralympic Partner, an initiative to connect organizations committed to improving and providing sports and recreation activities for children and adults with visual and physical disabilities.

PLEASE SUPPORT Earline Blumhagen and The WiFi Pedalers as they bike ride 2200 miles along the Mississippi River to support God's Hands Agency, Inc. God's Hands is a Christian-based organization that provides family and community support services and language learning opportunities to and for the 180,000 Deaf and their families in Central Florida.

Media & Publications

Abilities Magazine (published by Canadian Abilities Foundation)

Active Living Magazine

AAPC - Autism Asperger Publishing Company
Check out "Why Does Izzy Cover Her Ears? Dealing with Sensory Overload"

Age of Autism - Daily Web Newspaper of the Autism Epidemic

Bright Feats
Central Florida special needs resource publication and web site.

DisabilityNewsRadio.com

Heal Yourself Magazine & Heal Yourself Talk Radio

Mad As A Hatter - Blog host discusses autism and a variety of topics.

Patricia E. Bauer - News and commentary on disability issues

PhysicalIssues.com - Radio host Don Adams presents a wide variety of topics to individuals with special needs. Archive show Tuesday, January 6, 2009 discussion of the Buddy Bike with Shelley Patterson.

Rusty Chain Podcasts
Rusty commutes by bicycle but likes Saturday rides with his daughter on their Buddy Bike best of all! He created these eclectic music podcasts to fill a gap in his MP3 player. As the parent of a special needs child, Rusty supports CureAutismNow.org and will provide information about the Buddy Bike and autism fundraising events.

TheAutismPerspective.org

ThisIBelieve.org - Read this special essay by a sister of a boy with Fragile X. Then submit your own essay. This I Believe is an international project engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives.

TripleKnotProductions.org - Inspirational motivational documentaries of people with disabilities.

VeloVision Magazine - UK - Special Needs Cycling Guide

Organizations & Resources

Autism Connect
Autism Society Miami-Dade Chapter
Autism Society of North Carolina Bookstore
Autism Society of Ohio
Autism Speaks
Autism Town
Autism Today
Brave Kids
Canadian Abilities Foundation
CSAAC Foundation
Down Syndrome Information Network
FamiliesTogether.org (Offices in ID, MD, WA)
Family Cafe

Fragile X - Here is some information provided by a Fragile X parent:
Fragile What? | Top Ten | What Parents Need to Know About FX Testing

Google SketchUp 3D Software - FREE download

Got-Autism.com

Interactive Autism Network (IAN Network)

The JT Foundation - NJ Triathlon/cycling team raises awareness for Autism.

The Autism Acceptance Project

The National Association for Child Development (NACD)

The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD)

Project Wings (Central FL)

Pathfinders for Autism Resource Center (Baltimore, MD)

Ronald McDonald House Charities

The Search Institute is an independent nonprofit whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge & resources to promote healthy children, youth & communities.

Special Needs Alliance - Find a special needs planning attorney
STAND Statewide Advocacy Network on Disabilities (FL)
WaiverProvider.com - Florida directory of medicaid waiver providers
YAI National Institute for People with Disabilities Network

OasisAutism.org
OASIS Autism Blog

WATCH THIS VIDEO!
Every time someone clicks to watch this video all the way through, 40 cents will be donated to an autism charity.
It only takes 44 seconds!

HUGS and STITCHES
Visit this shop to buy gifts, weighted therapy items, car magnets, jewelry, and crafts
with an autism theme. My favorites are the buttons!

Adaptive Cycling & Sports

Cascade Bicycle Club: Adaptive cycling resources for the NW
BORP (Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program) (Berkeley, CA)
Creative Mobility (St. Charles, IL)
Dreams for Kids (Chicago, IL)
Florida Disabled Outdoors Association
Glide Cycle Unique invention for disability sports training, therapy & rehab
Inner Ability (Miami, FL)
National Ability Center (Park City, UT)
Lose The Training Wheels
Miami-Dade Leisure Access
SOS Outreach (CO, WA)
Special Olympics
Special Olympics Florida
Totcycle.com, Adaptive Cycling for Kids and resources. (Seattle, WA)
US Paralympics
NSSRA Northern Suburban Special Recreation Association (Northbrook, IL)
National Sports Center for the Disabled (Winter Park, CO; Kansas City, MO)

Wheels for Wellbeing (UK) - Supports cycling for disabled people in London. See their Funding your Cycle Guide.

Check with your local Parks & Recreation department to see if they offer adaptive and inclusive programs and/or summer camps.

Blogs

Autism Learning Felt
Ella's Garden
Kelly's Life Interrupted

Family Web Pages

Special web sites created by some of our customers to raise awareness of their children's disabilities and to raise funds.

Gia's Hope
Kids Can Dream A sister's web site to promote autism awareness for her brothers.

READ JELLY PIRATES
A BOOK BY JOSHUA THOMPSON
Joshua is a 7-year-old with autism. The funds from his book will help to fund his therapy and his future plans to attend college.

International

UNITED KINGDOM

IRELAND
The Down Syndrome Centre
in Ireland has written a beautiful article about adaptive cycling and
it features the Buddy Bike!
The site is full of useful information for families around the world who are affected by down syndrome.
READ THE ARTICLE

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