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Program helps families who are caring for a child with a developmental or physical disability and provides respite support to the family.

Provides assistive technologies and services to help people with disabilities complete their taxes.

Assistance for persons who have a hearing or speech impairment include TTY (1-800-665-0354), and sign language interpreters upon request.

Assistance for persons who have a vision impairment include publications, forms, and personal information documents in alternative formats such as braille, large print, etext, and MP3.

Community Volunteer Free Income Tax Clinics are also available, where trained community members aid in filling out tax returns for those who cannot do their own return and meet the criteria.

Protestant Church that meets for worship Sunday mornings. Recordings of previous sermons are available online. Member of Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.

Provides an opportunity for adults with a physical disability to live in a geared-to-income, fully accessible, one bedroom apartment. Access to essential non-medical 24 hour attendant and life skill support services. Support is provided on a contracted basis. Tenants lease their unit from the building's landlord.

Services include assistance with:

• eating
• bathing
• dressing
• transferring
• continence
• may also include meal preparation, medication, housekeeping, essential communication, arranging transportation, and shopping

Provides education on hearing loss, tinnitus, and hearing aid technology to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as free hearing tests for clients aged 50+. Also offers sales of hearing aids, batteries, and hearing protection.

These services provide attendants who provide physical assistance with activities of daily living such as personal grooming, transferring, dressing, bathing, meals, ventilator and tracheotomy services, and more.

Where funding and resources are available and in conjunction with personal care, this program can help with daily activities such as household management, homemaking services, or accompany consumers to medical appointments and special events.

March of Dimes also provides non-profit housing with attendant services in Hamilton, Burlington, Milton and Halton Hills.

Provides adults with physical disabilities living in the community with assistance in activities of daily living. Service includes scheduled non-medical care, such as meal preparation, dressing and undressing, rising and retiring, and personal care.

Provides volunteers who have similar interests and who want to share their time. Activities can include shopping, movies or events, or just a chat over coffee.

Assist persons with spinal cord injuries (SCI) and other spinal disabilities to achieve independence, self-reliance and full community participation.

This service/organization is experiencing a closure or cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please contact them for access to services during this time.

Offers a wide range of services at locations across Ontario to support to individuals and their families.
Services offered:
* Connect Counselling Service
* General Support Services
* Hearing Care Counselling Services

Literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills. Program is taught in American Sign Language (ASL) for adults who are Deaf, Deafened or Hard-of-Hearing and are looking to prepare for the General Education Diploma (GED) test, gain requirements to apply for college study, or improve skills needed for the workforce.

Offers 24-hour attendant care to 9 individuals with physical disabilities in a congregate residential setting. Operated by Thrive Group.

Program provided in partnership with Vision Loss Rehabilitation that provides support for individuals with vision loss and additional functional needs due to a permanent physical disability

Services include:

• personal care with the aid of an attendant
• vision loss specific training in the areas of orientation and mobility
• home and personal management
• communication skills

Personal support services are provided for activities of daily living such as bathing and toileting, range of motion exercises as well as the instrumental activities of daily living such as life-skills and light housekeeping support within a client's personal home. Operated by Thrive Group.

Offers a variety of client-directed housekeeping services for services with adult disabilities who are living in their own homes.

Services include:

• light housekeeping
• meal preparation
• laundry services
• additional services in the community such as nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and pharmacy

Provides a variety of personal support services for activities of daily living such as bathing and toileting, range of motion exercises, daily living activities, and light housekeeping. All services are provided in the client's own home.

Provides literacy and basic skills education for deafblind adults in Ontario.

Programs provide literacy, numeracy and essential skills services to assist in transitioning to employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education or independence.

Provides a variety of life-skills training services for people who are blind or partially-sighted. Services are provided by certified specialists who will create a personalized rehabilitation plan.
Services include:

• low vision services - functional eye assessment, eye disease information, techniques for maximizing eyesight, one-on-one instruction for sight-enhancing devices such as specialty magnifiers
• essential skills for daily living - instruction for use of large-print, braille, audio products, and adaptive technology, referrals to community programs and financial subsidies, safe techniques for everyday activities such as preparing meals, labelling medications, and using the phone
• travel and mobility instruction - teaches how to use the White Cane and other mobility tools, how to find and cross intersections, ride public transit, use the guiding technique to travel with a sighted person, and navigate new environments
• services for children and families - braille preparations, tactile learning sessions, peer programs. Provides educations materials for parents as well as access to local resources and workshops
• assistive technology services - instructs on use of devices such as accessible audiobook players, video magnifiers, computer screen readers etc. Also provides information on financial supports available through the Ontario Assistive Device Program

Provides resources, services, and courses to help blind and visually impaired individuals learn to read braille and improve their literacy skills. Also offers braille transcription services.
Contact for specific courses and services offered in your area.

Offers a variety of social and recreational programs and events for individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
Contact or visit website for a list of upcoming events.

Program services include home visiting, child care consultation and family support services for young children who are blind or have low vision.

Program is administered by the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services

Provides hearing screening and assessment services for new-born babies, also provides family support and communication development services for young children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Program is administered by the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services

Tidal Waves is a volunteer organization run by students at McMaster University. It provides low-cost swimming lessons to those with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities. Each swimmer who is part of the program is assigned with a personal instructor, qualified as a Nationally Certified Lifeguard. Over a course of a session the instructor will help the adult achieve their swimming goals.

Provide sailing opportunities for people of all ages living with a physical or cognitive disability

• focuses on the Martin 16 sailboat that can be sailed with either a companion instructor in the stern seat or solo by individual sailors
• sailors who want to advance their skills from casual day sailing to racing are taught the fundamentals of sailboat racing under the tutorship of trained instructors

Supportive housing which provides personal support services to 10 seniors in accessible units in a 65 unit rent geared to income building
* attendant services are provided for activities of daily living, such as bathing and toileting, range of motion exercises, as well as the instrumental activities of daily living, such as life skills and light housekeeping support