Family Resources

Recreation

• Challenger Little League Goleta, Carpinteria, and Ventura
• Dos Pueblos Little League website
• Outside of SB and Ventura Counties:
• www.LittleLeague.org for Challenger program in your city, state or country.
• UCSB Adaptive Sports Rick Van Hoorn, rick.vanhoorn@essr.ucsb.edu, (805) 448-6740
• National Ability Center
• AYSO Santa Barbara
• Calvary Chapel of Santa Barbara
  Features ministries, service times, events, and more. Special needs children welcomed to summer camps,VBS, Sunday program when accompanied by able assistant. Special needs kids welcomed to Summer Programs when accompanied by their caregivers
• Cottage Hospital Rehabilitation Services (link)
• Full Count Fundamentals Baseball Instruction
• Boys and Girls Club of Santa Barbara
• Kids’ Club 401 N Fairview Ave Goleta, ca 93117-1732 Phone: (805) 967-3937

• Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation
• The National Center for Boundless Playgrounds
• SBParent.com
  Parent Resources for Santa Barbara, California. *Challengers Little League is the recipient of the Award for Best Special Needs Sports Program
• SOFTIN Seafaring Opportunities for Those in Need
• Special Olympics for Santa Barbara
• U.S. Adaptive Recreation Center
  Offers summer and winter sports programs; based in Big Bear, California.
  … time on-site adaptive ski school in Southern California at Bear
  Mountain Resort. …
• YMCA Adaptive Swim Lessons
  (805) 687-7727
  36 Hitchcock Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
  Cross Streets: Between Hitchcock Ranch Rd and Monterey Pines St.
• YMCA Adaptive P.E. Classes September 21-November 25 2009
• Wendy Fereday Swim School-Wendy has a heart for expanding swim instruction for the special needs community

Speech, Hearing & Visual Challenges

• Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• National Association for the Deaf (NAD)
• National Institute on Deafness & Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
• The National Theater of the Deaf
• American Federation for the Blind (AFB)
• Prevent Blindness America-Children
• United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA)
• National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (NAPVI)
• Kid Source Onlice: NICHCY info about Speech and language disorders

Down Syndrome

Autism

• Autism Society of America (ASA)
• Autism Society of Santa Barbara (link)
• Autism Speaks (link)
• The Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism, Inc.
• TACA - Talk About Curing Autism, Santa Barbara (link)
• Train 4 Austim

• The Bubel/AIken Foundation (BAF)
• The ARC of the United States
• Easter Seals, Inc.
• TASH: Equity, Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusion for those with severe special needs, who are most at risk of societal exclusion
• Paws with a Cause-Assistance Dogs
• Parents Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER)
• PeerBuddies - SB (link)
• KPS4Parents- Knowledge Powers Solutions for Parents