Important Resources & Links
Assistive Technology
Missouri Assistive Technology Project
Provides the opportunity to increase access to assistive technology for Missouri citizens with all types of disabilities, of all ages.
Unfinish3d Pieces
To help improve the lives of individuals and families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder. Providing the support families need through understanding the IEP process, provider resources/funding related to assistive technology/communication devices, provide resources and funding toward family and parenting trainings.
Freeware Home
Downloadable programs that could be helpful for individuals with various forms of disabilities.
Employment
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Applying Performance and Conduct Standards to Employees with Disabilities.
Job Point
Job Point is Mid-Missouri’s premier employment center and community development corporation. Since 1965, we have been linking people and jobs by providing career planning, skills training and job placement assistance. We specialize in preparing individuals to enter the workforce while meeting a critical need of the business community.
APSE – MO – The Network on Employment
A national organization committed to improving and expanding integrated employment opportunities, services, and outcomes for people with disabilities.
Ticket to Work Health Assurance Program
Enables Missourians with disabilities who have earned income to qualify for Medicaid.
Disability Benefits 101
Disability Benefits 101 (DB101) helps workers, job seekers, students and service providers understand the connections between work and benefits. In addition to the Benefits-to-Work Calculator and the Job-to-Job Calculator, a new calculator called School and Work is now available for youth with disabilites.
Other Helpful Resources and Agencies
Missouri Department of Social Services
This site can provide links to MO Healthnet, MO Healthy SNAP, and additional resources.
Midwest Special Needs Trust
Created in 1989 by state statute, Midwest Special Needs Trust is a non-profit organization established for the purpose of administering special needs trusts. If properly structured and administered, special needs trusts do not affect an individual’s eligibility for benefits such as SSI or Medicaid.
Missouri has partnered with STABLE Account, a national ABLE plan, to make STABLE accounts available to residents of Missouri.
Americans With Disabilities Act Information & Technical Assistance
This site can direct an individual to ADA standards regarding: employment; public transportation; telephone relay service; proposed design guidelines; education; health care; labor and housing.
Association on Aging with Developmental Disabilities
Develops, links, and supports opportunities and services for older adults with developmental disabilities.
Randolph County Sheltered Industries & MPPS Employment
Lifetime Services
United Way of Randolph County, Inc.
Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
This site is an “all in one” webpage for Missouri school issues. Topics include: Curriculum, finance, certification, special education, laws, career opportunities and vocation rehabilitation.
Missouri Department of Mental Health
The three Divisions under this Department are Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Comprehensive Psychiatric Services and Developmental Disabilities. From this site, an individual can also access Network of Care.
Missouri Family – To – Family Resource Center
Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services
The Missouri Protection and Advocacy is a federally mandated system in the state of Missouri which provides protection of the rights of persons with disabilities through legally-based advocacy.
Governor’s Council on Disability
Missouri State Senate
Provides information regarding Senators, bill tracking, calendar of bills or you can listen to live debates.
Missouri State Home Page
From this page, you can find anything relevant to Missouri including: Looking up legislators or legislation; Amber Alert warnings; Lottery numbers and Homeland Security.
Legal Services of Missouri
Providing legal services to low income and elderly people in Missouri.
Disability Specific Sites
MO-FEAT – Missouri Families For Effective Autism Treatment
National Organization for Rare Disorders
Advocacy
Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services
The Missouri Protection and Advocacy is a federally mandated system in the state of Missouri which provides protection of the rights of persons with disabilities through legally-based advocacy.
Our Favorite Books, Movies and Documentaries About People Who Have Developmental Disabilities
Fiction Books
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
- Freak the Mighty, by Rodman Philbrick
- Being There, by Jerzy Kosinski
- The Story of Beautiful Girl, by Rachel Simon
- Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom
Non-Fiction Books
- The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic, by Darby Penney, Peter Stastny, Lisa Rinzler (Photographer)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- Riding the Bus with My Sister, by Rachel Simon
- Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love, by Myron Uhlberg
- Nobody Nowhere, by Donna Williams
Movies
- Adam
- Being There
- Benny and Joon
- Elephant Man
- Forrest Gump
- I Am Sam
- Mary and Max
- Mask
- My Left Foot
- My Louisiana Sky
- Nell
- Radio
- Rain Man
- Riding the Bus with My Sister
- Simon Birch
- Temple Grandin
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- The Mighty
- The Other Sister
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Documentaries
- Educating Peter
- Graduating Peter
- Lives Worth Living
- Loving Lampposts
- Murderball
- My Classic Life as an Artist: A Portrait of Larry Bissonnette
- Normal People Scare Me
- Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willowbrook
- Where’s Molly?
- When Billy Broke His Head
- Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace
- Wretches and Jabberers