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Description |
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Attendant Services
programs provide non-medical personal support, homemaking services and
assistance with tasks of daily living to adults with permanent physical
disability. Attendant Services are delivered on an outreach basis or at
supportive living sites associated with APPD. Additional respite
services are available to provide relief to caregivers. |
Ministry of Community and Social Service
Ontario Disabilities Support Program
(519) 254-1651 |
The ODSP is intended to
meet the needs of people with disabilities and help them to become more
independent. The ODSP has two parts: 1. Income Supports provides
financial assistance to people with disabilities; 2. Employment
Supports provides the supports people with disabilities need to get and
keep jobs. |
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For adults with disabilities, support group for friends, peers, animal visits. |
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Facilitated peer support
group, enhancing personal life experience through effective
communication and interaction with others. Non-profit agency providing
rehabilitation for blind, visually impaired, deaf blind individuals.
Includes rehabilitation teaching orientation, and mobility, technical
aids, library services, and transportation services to and from medical
appointments. Resource centre offers talking books, large print and
Braille books, interactive toys in red, yellow, green and blue, tactile
toys and scented play dough. |
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Advocacy and support
group to the deaf, deafened, and hard of hearing. Information and
referral, provides employment services, general social services,
interpreter services, hearing care counseling, hearing aid and technical
aid programs and audiology services, etc. |
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Support group of parents
offering encouragement and support to cope with activities of daily
living for children deaf or hard of hearing. |
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Offers one-to-one supportive counseling, health. Variety of holistic services. |
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Pediatric asthma clinic;
education review for parents and children 5 years and older, identifying
and controlling triggers. Medication and how to use it correctly.
Respiration therapist, speakers, and workshops. |
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Digital based information service and support by telephone and e-mail counseling. Certified asthma educators. |
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Aims to integrate persons
with a disability into the community to advanced quality of life.
Provides vocational support service. |
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Service for parents of children who have suffered the loss of a limb or limbs through birth, medical causes or accidents. |
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Organization devoted
towards funding and promoting arthritis research. Provides patient
care, advocacy, and public education on more than 100 forms of
arthritis. |
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Support group for
survivors of acquired brain injury. Offers information to families,
friends, and caregivers. Promotes awareness and related implications of
brain injuries. |
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Evaluation and
information for referred patient with cancer. Resources, supportive
palliative care program, social work, nutritional counseling, relaxing
sessions, touch therapy, etc. |
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Funding for research services and programs. Information on Cerebral Palsy. |
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Provides information and application forms for residential summer camps. Information on diabetes. |
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Diabetes health and education. |
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To serve the community of Lakeshore by providing access to health, government, and support services. |
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Health care equipment rentals. Offers wheelchairs, crutches, canes, walkers, etc. |
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Services for registered
persons with neuromuscular disorders. Assistance in acquiring
prescribed equipment. Research education, information, referral, and
advocacy. |
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Assists people with Multiple Sclerosis maintain an independent lifestyle. Individual and family services. |
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Prenatal care, pregnancy, postnatal, diet, and clinic. |
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Supports those with Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus. Information and education workshops. |
