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State Agencies Official State Web Site Connect with your state's official website to find all manner of state agencies and information, including how to contact your governor and/or your representatives in the Senate and House:     www.de.gov/ State Department of Education: Special Education Exceptional Children and Early Childhood Group 401 Federal Street, Suite 2 Dover   DE   19901-3639 (302) 739-4210 mtoomey@doe.k12.de.us http://www.doe.state.de.us/programs/specialed/ Programs for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities: Ages Birth through 2 Division of Management Services Department of Health and Social Services Main Administration Building 1901 N. DuPont Highway New Castle   DE   19720 (302) 255-9135 rosanne.griff-cabelli@state.de.us www.state.de.us/dhss/dms/epqc/birth3/directry.html State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Delaware Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 4425 N. Market Street P. O. Box 9969 Wilmington   DE   19809-0969 (302) 761-8275 (302) 761-8336 (TTY) andrea.guest@state.de.us www.delawareworks.com/dvr/welcome.shtml State Mental Health Agency Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Delaware Health and Social Services Main Administration Building 1901 N. DuPont Highway  New Castle   DE   19720 (302) 255-9399 kevin.huckshorn@state.de.us Programs for People with Developmental Disabilities Division of Developmental Disabilities Services Delaware Health and Social Services 1056 S. Governors Avenue, Suite 101  Dover   DE   19904 (302) 744-9600 dhssinfo@state.de.us www.state.de.us/dhss/ddds/index.html Protection and Advocacy Agency Disabilities Law Program Community Service Building 100 W. 10th Street, Suite 801 Wilmington   DE   19801 (800) 292-7980 (in DE) (302) 575-0660 (302) 575-0696 (TTY) www.declasi.org Programs for Children with Special Health Care Needs Children with Special Health Care Needs Bureau of Maternal and Child Health Division of Public Health 417 Federal Street Dover   DE   19901 (800) 464-4357 (Helpline) (302) 741-2980 lora.lewis@state.de.us Special Needs Alert Program (SNAP) Office of EMS Blue Hen Corporate Center 655 Bay Road, Suite 4H Dover   DE   19901 (302) 744-5415 beth.macdonald@state.de.us www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/ems/emscsnap.html Programs for Children and Youth who are Blind or Visually Impaired Division for the Visually Impaired 1901 N. Dupont Highway, Biggs Building New Castle   DE   19720 (302) 255-9800 cynthia.lovell@state.de.us www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dvi/about.html Telecommunications Relay Services (800) 232-5470 (V) (800) 232-5460 (TTY); 711 (TTY) (800) 229-5746 (Speech to Speech - English) (866) 260-9470 (Speech to Speech - Spanish)     State Education Agency Rural Representative Contact State Department of Education: Special Education.     Other State Agencies for Persons with Disabilities State Council for Persons with Disabilities Margaret M. O’Neill Building P.O. Box 1401 Dover   DE   19903 www2.state.de.us/scpd Technology-Related Assistance Delaware Assistive Technology Initiative University of DE/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children P.O. Box 269 1600 Rockland Road, Room 200  Wilmington   DE   19899 (800) 870-3284 (in DE) (302) 651-6790 (302) 651-6794 (TTY) dati@asel.udel.edu www.dati.org Special Format Library Delaware Division of Libraries Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped 43 S. DuPont Highway Dover   DE   19901 (V/TTY)(800) 282-8676 (302) 739-4748 john.phillos@state.de.us debph@lib.de.us www.state.lib.de.us Governor’s Advisory Council for Exceptional Citizens (GACEC) 516 W. Loockerman Street  Dover   DE   19904 (302) 739-4553 wstrauss@gacec.k12.de.us www.state.de.us/gacec/index.htm State Coordinator for NCLB (No Child Left Behind) Delaware Department of Education 401 Federal Street, Suite 2 Dover   DE   19901 (302) 735-4005 nwilson@doe.k12.de.us www.doe.k12.de.us Programs for Children with Disabilities: Ages 3 through 5 Exceptional Children and Early Childhood Group Department of Education 401 Federal Street, Suite 2 Dover   DE   19901-3639 (302) 735-4210 jlesko@doe.k12.de.us www.doe.k12.de.us/programs/specialed/default.shtml Office of State Coordinator of Vocational Education for Students with Disabilities Exceptional Children and Early Childhood Group Department of Education 401 Federal Street, Suite 2, Townsend Building Dover   DE   19901 (302) 735-4210 www.doe.state.de.us/Exceptional_Child/ececehome.htm State Mental Health Representative for Children Division of Child Mental Health Services Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families 1825 Faulkland Road, Building 1 Wilmington   DE   19805-1195 (302) 633-2600 susan.cycyk@state.de.us http://kids.delaware.gov/cmhs/cmhs.shtml Councils on Developmental Disabilities Delaware Developmental Disabilities Council Margaret M. O'Neill Building, 2nd Floor 410 Federal Street, Suite 2  Dover   DE   19904 (302) 739-3333 pat.maichle@state.de.us www.ddc.delaware.gov Client Assistance Program Client Assistance Program, United Cerebral Palsy, Inc. 254 E. Camden-Wyoming Avenue Camden   DE   19934 (302) 698-9336 (302) 698-9336 capucp@comcast.net Division of Public Health & duPont Hospital for Children Office of EMS Blue Hen Corporate Center 655 Bay Road, Suite 4H Dover   DE   19901 (302) 744-5410 marie.renzi@state.de.us State CHIP Program (health care for low-income uninsured children) Delaware Healthy Children Program P.O. Box 950 New Castle   DE   19720-9914 (800) 996-9969 www.state.de.us/dhss/dss/ Programs for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Delaware Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 4425 N. Market Street Wilmington   DE   19802-1307 (302) 761-8275 (V/TTY) (302) 761-8243 (Videophone & TTY) Loretta.Sarro@state.de.us www.delawareworks.com/dvr/services/dodhh.shtml Programs for Children and Youth who are Deaf-Blind Delaware Program for Deaf-blind Children 620 E. Chestnut Hill Road Newark   DE   19713 (302) 454-2305 lashbrookm@christina.k12.de.us Regional ADA Technical Assistance Center DBTAC: Mid-Atlantic ADA Center TransCen, Inc. 451 Hungerford Drive, Suite 700 Rockville   MD   20850 (800) 949-4232 (V/TTY DC, DE, MD, PA, VA, WV) (301) 217-0124 (V/TTY) adainfo@transcen.org www.adainfo.org University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities University of Delaware Center for Disabilities Studies 461 Wyoming Road  Newark   DE   19716 (302) 831-6974 (302) 831-4689 (TTY) ud-cds@udel.edu www.udel.edu/cds State Mediation System Exceptional Children and Early Childhood Education Group Department of Education 401 Federal Street, Suite 2  Dover   DE   19901-3639 (302) 735-4226 lvari@doe.k12.de.us www.doe.state.de.us Back to Top

Disability-Specific Organizations Attention Deficit Disorder To identify an ADD group in your state or locality, contact either: Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) 8181 Professional Place, Suite 150  Landover   MD   20785 (800) 233-4050 (Voice mail to request information packet) (301) 306-7070 www.chadd.org Autism National autism organizations are listed at the end of NICHCY's autism page, http://www.nichcy.org/Disabilities/Specific/Pages/autism.aspx. Autism Delaware 924 Old Harmony Road, Suite 201 Newark   DE   19713 (302) 224-6020 Delautism@delautism.org www.delautism.org Brain Injury Brain Injury Association of Delaware P.O. Box 1897 (mailing address) 840 Walker Rd (physical address) Dover   DE   19903 (800) 411-0505 (302) 346-2083 director@biade.org www.biausa.org/Delaware.bia.htm United Cerebral Palsy of Delaware -- Kent/Sussex County Branch 3249 Midstate Road Felton   DE   19943 (302) 335-5626 carpent487@aol.com Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities The Arc of Delaware 1016 Centre Road  Wilmington   DE   19805-1234 (302) 996-9400 www.arcde.org Speech, Language, and Hearing Delaware Speech-Language-Hearing Association P.O. Box 7383 Newark   DE   19711 dshaweb@dshaweb.org Tourette Syndrome Tourette Syndrome Association, Inc. 42-40 Bell Boulevard Bayside   NY   11361-2820 (718) 224-2999 ts@tsa-usa.org www.tsa-usa.org Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA) P.O. Box 543  Pottstown   PA   19464 (484) 945-2101 www.add.org Blind/Visual Impairments American Foundation for the Blind 11 Penn Plaza, Suite 300 New York   NY   10001 (800) 232-5463 (212) 502-7600 afbinfo@afb.net www.afb.org Cerebral Palsy United Cerebral Palsy of Delaware 700 A River Road Wilmington   DE   19809 (302) 764-2400 wmccool@ucpde.org Epilepsy/Seizure Disorders Epilepsy Foundation of Delaware Tower Office Park 240 N. James Street, Suite 208 Newport   DE   19804 (800) 422-3653 (302) 999-9313 efd@efde.org http://epilepsyfoundation.org/delaware Mental Health Mental Health Association in Delaware 100 W. 10th Street, Suite 600 Wilmington   DE   19801 (800) 287-6423 (In DE) (302) 654-6833 jlafferty@mhainde.org www.mhainde.org Special Health Care Needs Delaware Family Voices 2340 Alamo, S.E., Suite 102 Albuquerque   NM   87106 (888) 835-5669 (505) 872-4774 bethappenzeller@aol.com www.familyvoices.org/ Back to Top

Organizations for Parents Parent Training and Information Center Parent Information Center of Delaware (PIC) 5570 Kirkwood Highway  Wilmington   DE   19808 (888) 547-4412 (302) 999-7394 maghaz@picofdel.org www.picofdel.org Partners in Policymaking Partners in Policymaking of Delaware Developmental Disabilities Council Margaret M. O'Neill Building, 2nd Floor 410 Federal Street, Suite 2 Dover   DE   19901 (302) 739-7192 www.state.de.us/ddc Parent-To-Parent Contact Parent Training and Information Center.     Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Delaware Congress of Parents and Teachers 925 Bear-Corbitt Road, Suite 101 Bear   DE   19701 (302) 838-8770 de_office@pta.org www.delawarepta.org Back to Top

Other Disability Organizations (Providing patient care, education and research for children birth through 17 with acute, chronic, and complex health problems.) Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children 1600 Rockland Road  Wilmington   DE   19803 (888) 533-3543 (302) 651-4000 InfoduPont@nemours.org www.nemours.org/internet?cat=l Delawareans with Special Needs: Medicaid Managed Care Panel 35 W. Fairfield Drive Dover   DE   19901 (302) 697-1976 bethappenzeller@aol.com Interagency Coordinating Council Birth to Three Department of Health and Social Services Main Admin. Building 1901 N. DuPont Highway New Castle   DE   19720 (302) 255-9135 woodson@email.chop.edu www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dms/epqc/birth3/directry.html The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Delaware Chapter 100 W. 10th Street, Suite 209 Wilmington   DE   19801 (800) 220-1617 (302) 661-7300, ext. 25 michelle.sobczyk@lls.org www.lls.org Independent Living To find out the contact information for the Statewide Independent Living Council (SILC) in your state, contact: Independent Living Research Utilization Project The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research 2323 South Sheppard, Suite 1000 Houston   TX   77019 (713) 520-0232 (V) (713) 520-5136 (TTY) ilru@ilru.org www.ilru.org American Amputee Soccer Association 1033 Creekside Drive Wilmington   DE   19804 (302) 683-0997 rgh@ampsoccer.org www.ampsoccer.org Easter Seals Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore 61 Corporate Circle New Castle   DE   19720 (800) 677-3800 (302) 324-4444 lscarpitti@esdel.org www.de.easterseals.com MENTOR ABI Group - New Jersey Rehabilitative and Support Services for Persons with Acquired Brain Injury 505 S. Lenola Road Blason Office Plaza II, Suite 217 Moorestown   NJ   08057 (856) 235-5505 http://nj.thementornetwork.com/state/index.asp VSA arts of Delaware Art Center Gallery, Deleware State University 1200 N. Dupont Highway Dover   DE   19901 (302) 857-6699 jgunther@dsc.edu To find out the contact information for centers for independent living (CILs) in your state, contact: National Council on Independent Living 1710 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, 5th Floor  Washington   DC   20036 (202) 207-0334 (V) (202) 207-0340 (TTY) ncil@ncil.org www.ncil.org Back to Top

The offices listed on NICHCY state sheets are primarily state-level offices. Even if an office is not close to your home, they can usually put you in touch with resources in your community, as well as provide you with information and assistance about disability issues in your state. If you find that an address or number has changed or is incorrect, please e-mail us at nichcy@aed.org and let us know.

A Note About Age of Eligibility:
Each state sets eligibility ages for services to children and youth with disabilities. For current information, please contact the office listed under Department of Education: Special Education for the state of interest.

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Esta página de recursos le ayudará a saber qué clase de ayuda hay en su estado para las personas con discapacidades y sus familias, cuáles organizaciones y agencias podrá contactar para mayor información, y ¡mucho más! Las oficinas identificados tienden a ser oficinas a nivel estatal, no local, pero usualmente pueden ponerle en contacto con recursos dentro de su comunidad. También pueden proveerle información y asistencia sobre los asuntos relacionados a la discapacidad en su estado.

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