Developmental Disabilities (DD) Committee

March is Developmental Disabilities Month

Department of Health & Human Services Fact Sheet

Autism Issues and Needs in Alaska

The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities - 2007 Summer Leadership Institute

Make Your Case - a three-hour self-directed course on how to communicate with public officials by effectively telling your personal story, writing a letter, providing testimony, and communicating in positive ways.

Partners in Education - six-hour self directed e-learning course to help parents with children with developmental disabilities better understand and maximize the benefites of special education services.

Partners in Employment - a self-study, Internet-based learning program, created to give users the practical skills needed to find real, competitive employment in their own community.

Partners in Living - a seven-hour self-directed e-learning course created to help people with developmental disabilities, their parents, family members and friends, educators and service providers understand the important concepts of self-determination, family support, community living and assistive technology.

Partners in Time - an eight-hour self-directed e-learning course created to help people with developmental disabilities, their parents, family members and friends, educators and service providers understand the history of society's treatment of people with disabilities from ancient times through the present.

Helpful Links:

DHSS, Administration on Developmental Disabilities
Alaska Autism Resource Center (AARC)
The Arc of Anchorage
Centers for Human Development
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Developmental Milestone Checklist
Medline Plus - Developmental Disabilities
NAMI Alaska
Stone Soup Group

Public Images Network Media Kit

 

Can you get involved? Yes! Call us toll free at: 1 (888) 269-8990, in Anchorage 269-8990 or email Carrie.Predeger@alaska.gov