COVID-19 Resources & Updates
Activities to do at Home (Check Back Often!)
VIDEOS
- Three Steps to Ease the Mind
- Alternatives for ‘NO’
- Game Time
- Get Moving!
- Outdoor Fitness
- Post It Notes Activity
- Physical Activity
- Physical Therapy Activity
- Social Story Time
- Stretching
- The Mental Strategist
- Adventures to the Zoo & Disneyland
- 20 Virtual Field Trips to Take with Your Kids | Adventures in Familyhood
- Fun at Home – Bellaire PT
- Fun Activities To Do At Home – Avilo Pediatrics
- Texas Coronavirus Relief Bill Rental Assistance Program
WEBSITE LINKS
- 150+ Educational Shows on Netflix | Homeschool Hideout
- 150+ Enrichment Activities for Children While Parents are Working Remotely Enrichment Activities for Kids
- Breezy Special Ed | breezyspecialed.com
- Coronavirus Social Story Free Printable
- Fort Bend County Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) | Information | Application
- Free Access Request for Closed Schools | BrainPOP.com
- Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions Due to School Closings | kidsactivitiesblog.com
- Hope and Healing Center – Corona Virus Mental Health Help Resource List | www.hopeandhealingcenter.org
- Parents Tool Kit | www.autismspeaks.org
- PrAACtical Resources: Dealing with the Covid-19 Pandemic : PrAACtical AAC
- Preparing the Disability Community for Disasters and Other Emergencies | Texas A&M University
- Teaching Remotely for Grades K – 12 | Free Resources and Strategies
- Tele social skills for those with autism, ADD and social anxiety | incuentro.com
- Healthy boundaries for families during COVID-19 | bankrate.com
Government Resources (National/State/Local)
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC) www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov
- COVID-19 Resources Child Care | Texas Workforce Commission
www.twc.texas.gov - Exhaustive List For COVID-19 Resources | COVID-19 Resource Center
www.donorbox.org - Fort Bend County Health and Human Services
www.fbchealth.org/ncov - Fort Bend County Homeland Security and Emergency Management
www.fbcoem.org - Houston Health Department
www.houstontx.gov/health - Houston Department of Emergency Management
www.houstonoem.org - Pandemic-EBT (P-EBT) Due to COVID-19 | Texas Health and Human Services
www.hhs.texas.gov - Texas Department of Health and Human Services
www.texas.gov/coronavirus - Texas Education Agency
www.tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/safe-and-healthy-schools/coronavirus-covid-19-support-and-guidance - World Health Organization www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public
Other Sources of Assistance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Closed My Child’s School: Is the School Required to Make Up Missed Services Wright’s Law – FAPE
- Know your risk during covid-19 with this Risk Chart | Safe or risky activities of exposure.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT AND SERVICES
- Brazos Bend Guardianship Services – Provide incapacitated and disabled adults and their families with legal guardianship, money management, and adult guardianship education
www.BrazosBend Guardianship.org - Be An Angel – Improve the quality of life for children with multiple disabilities or profound deafness by providing needed adaptive equipment and select services.
www.beanangel.org - Challenges to Triumphs – Behavioral Supports and Services
www.challengestotriumphs.com - Consolidated Planning Group – Special Needs Financial Planning www.consolidatedplanninggroup.com
- Delivering Jobs – An inclusion campaign dedicated to creating pathways to one million employment and leadership opportunities for people with autism, intellectual and/or developmental differences. deliveringjobs.org
- Free Counseling and Case management resource – TEXANS RECOVERING TOGETHER COVID OUTREACH – 936-521-6331
- Hope and Healing Center – Corona Virus Mental Health Help Resource List
www.hopeandhealingcenter.org - Missouri City Family Counseling – Now Offering Online Testing and Evaluations. For more information or to schedule an evaluation: Email us at info@missouricityfamilies.com or call (832) 500-3563
- New Danville – High Functioning Special Needs Community
www.newdanville.org - Next Step Academy – Day Treatment Center for Children with Autism
www.thenextstepacademy.org - Social Motion Skills – Social skills training focused on personal development
www.socialmotionskills.org - Stacy Badon
www.autism4home.com - STCH Ministries for Family Counseling is a free resource in the Fort Bend community. They are faith-based and certified. (361) 575-5151
- Support Group – ASPIE of Houston 281-404-9976
www.aspieinfo.com - Texana Center: Tim Jones, Transition Coordinator Authority Division (Admissions)
Tim.jones@texanacenter.com; 281-239-1387
- United Way Bright Beginnings
www.unitedwayhouston.org
ADVOCACY
- Autism Advocacy
www.autismspeaks.org - Disability Rights Texas –Supported Decision Making Alternative
www.DRTx.org - Makris Law Firm, P.C. –Advocate for Social Security Disability / Supplemental Social Security Benefits
www.houstonsocialsecuritydisabilityattorney.com - Partners Resource Network – Empowerment Through Education
www.prntexas.org - TXARD, Michelle Rice-Spencer, Advocate
www.txard.com
EDUCATION
- 365 BOOK Special Education Rules & Regulations
- ACHIEVE Fort Bend County – Academic Resources
www.achievefortbendcounty.org - Collaborative for Children –Early Education in Greater Houston
www.collabforchildren.org - Focus Academy – Resources for Academic Success
www.focusacademyhouston.org - Gateway America Preparatory – Focused on Development of the Whole Child
www.gatewayamericaprep.com - Kn.I.L.E. Center, LLC – Resources for Academic Success
www.knilecenter.com - Launch Academy – Resources for Academic Success
www.launchacademy.info - Learning Rx Sugar Land – Resources for Academic Success
www.learningrx.com/sugar-land - Resource Guide on Higher Education for People with Disabilities
Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities
www.tcdd.texas.gov - Shady Oak Primary School
www.shadyoakprimary.com
FINANCIAL AID
- Autism Rescue Angels – Financial support for families living with autism
www.autismrescueangels.org/ - F.A.C.E.S. – Foundation for Autism Care, Education and Services www.facesautism.org
- KNOWAutism– Support for families living with autism and other disabilities
www.know-autism.org - T.A.C.A. – Talk About Curing Autism – Grant Opportunity
www.tacanow.org/family-resources/sos-we-need-help/ - United Healthcare Children’s Foundation – Grant Opportunity
www.uhccf.org/uhccf/media/Docs/UHCCF-brochure.pdf - The Huckleberry Foundation
www.thepeopleprojecttx.org/huck-helps
HEALTHCARE
- Assessment Services at Missouri City Family Counseling
missouricityfamilies.com - BWC Healthcare– Assistance to those seeking self-direction with Medicaid service
www.bwchealthcare.com - Dentist (Special Needs): Dr. Jacob Dent, D.D.S.
www.sugarlandmoderndentistry.com - Dentist (Special Needs): Katy
www.kidstowndentist.com - Hope For Autism
An insurance reference guide for parents & caregivers - Houston Specialty Clinic: Sleep Specialists
- www.houstonspecialtyclinic.com
- Mental Health America of Fort Bend County – Mental Health Care and Resources
www.mhafbc.org - MedCare Pediatric Group – Pediatric Therapy and Nursing
www.medcarepediatric.com - Modern Dentistry & Orthodontics
www.sugarlandmoderndentistry.com/ - Night Light Pediatric Urgent Care
www.nightlightpediatrics.com/ - Orthodontist- Heather Brown, D.D.S.
www.drheatherbrown.com/ - Special Kids Care: Pediatric Home Health Specialists
www.specialkidscare.com/ - Texas Children’s Hospital
www.texaschildrens.org
HOUSING
Emergency Shelters and other Housing Options
- Houston Housing Authority 713-260-0500
- Shelters for Adults and Families – Copy and paste in browser https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review/?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A87b5c7fc-0a21-441a-8380-c4e035f2e11c&pageNum=1
- Fort Bend County Affordable, Accessible and Integrated Housing Options – Copy and paste in browser https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review/?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ab3bf3e26-3cc8-4bbd-b97f-8cdf4ebd5ee4&pageNum=1
- Tax Credit/Low-Income Housing – Copy and paste in browser https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Aeda1df02-7b20-4234-b9f6-8bb133780039
- Housing; Community Resources: www.justshelter.org
- Housing & Shelters: https://www.hud.gov/states/texas
- Affordable Housing: https://affordablehousingonline.com/housing-search/Texas/Fort-Bend-County
- Homeless Prevention and Re-Housing Program: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A2c05dc6b-c46b-4168-b9db-080928373a13
- Social Services Living Assistance: https://www.socialserve.com/tenant/TX/index.html?ch=HOUHA
- Coalition for the Homeless, 713-739-7514
- Emergency Shelter; Star of Hope located at 2575 Reed Rd, Houston, TX 77051; Phone number 713-222-2220; Link for intake information (call beforehand to verify if there are openings): https://www.sohmission.org/our-services/women-and-family-development-center/additional-intake-information/
- Fort Bend County Affordable Apartment: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A2edce2f2-202d-464c-8069-e70ba2c6bc65
- Emergency Shelter; Fort Bend Family Promise; 4645 Cartwright Road, Missouri City, TX 77459. Phone number 281-403-3923
- Wayne Bergstrom Center of Hope – Conroe; 936-828-4022
- Family Promise of Lake Houston – Humble 77338; 281-446-2615
- The Salvation Army Center of Hope – Men’s Shelter, 1717 Congress, 713-223-8889
- The Salvation Army Conroe, 304 Avenue E, 77301; 936-760-2440
- The Salvation Army Family Residence Shelter – 713-650-6530
- Houston Furniture Bank, 713-842-9771
- Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC)/DONATION FACILITY; 713-869-3551
- Fort Bend County Housing facilities list with a number of vacancies
- https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A7d6123b8-684a-4937-8a54-e00827cc01cc
- Homelessness and the Digital Divide: https://www.allconnect.com/blog/technology-and-homeless
INFORMATIVE
- Arc of Fort Bend – Advocacy, support, and services for Fort Bend families living with autism and other disabilities
www.arcoffortbend.org - Autism Parenting Magazine www.autismparentingmagazine.com/autism-resources-parents
- Autism Society Texas Resources –Advocacy, education, information & referrals, support, and community, at national, state & local levels
www.autism-society.org - Care Connection, Aging & Disability Resource Center, 855-937-2372
www.careconnection.org - Directory of Community Resources in Texas
www.disabilityresources.tamu.edu - Family to Family Network –Information on various systems, referrals to community resources, training events on various disability topics
www.familytofamilynetwork.org - FEAT –Families for Effective Autism Treatment; resources and providing information about Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
www.feathouston.org - Frequently Used Taxonomies- Various resource categories for your needs Frequently Used Taxonomies
- Hope For Autism –
an insurance reference guide for parents & caregivers - Reach for Kids Resource Guide
www.reachforkids.com/resources.php - Safety.com Water Safety Guide for Children With Special Needs
- Searching 211 Texas Step-by-step- “211 Texas, a program of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, is committed to helping Texas citizens connect with the services they need” Searching 211Texas.org
- Social Security How to Qualify
- Texas Project First – TEA resources for parents and families of students with disabilities
www.texasprojectfirst.org - Homelessness and the Digital Divide: https://www.allconnect.com/blog/technology-and-homeless
SPORTS AND RECREATION
- Baseball – Dream League
www.fcdreamleague.com - Camp Aranzazu – Unique camping, environmental education, and retreat experiences for adults and children with chronic illnesses and disabilities
www.camparanzazu.org - Camp Blessing – Christian summer camp ministry designed for children with special needs
www.campblessing.org - Camp CAMP– Recreational programming for children and adults with developmental, intellectual, medical, behavioral, and physical disabilities
www.campcamp.org - Camp Resources
www.houston.citymomsblog.com - Camps For Teens
www.parents.com - Challenge Air – Flight Experience for Special Needs Children
www.challengeair.com - DePasquale Travel
www.travelingesp.com - Disability-Friendly Backyard for Kids
www.homeadvisor.com - Disney Planning – For a child with disabilities or special needs
www.millionmilesecrets.com - Easter Seals – Camps
eastersealshouston.org…camps - Easter Seals- Extracurricular Activities
www.eastersealshouston.org/Community-Resources/extracurricular-activities.html - Elijah’s Retreat
- www.elijahsretreat.com
- Fort Bend Impact Cheer, Fit, & Tumble
www.fortbendimpact.com/ - Fort Bend Martial Arts Academy
www.fortbendmartialartsacademy.com/ - The First Tee – Golf Lessons for Youth & Special Needs Children
www.thefirsttee.org - Horseback Riding Therapy
www.halterinc.org - Horseback Riding Therapy – Reining Strength
www.reiningstrength.org - Houston Swim Club
www.houstonswimclub.com - Katy Wolf Pack – Special Olympics Texas Team
www.facebook.com/groups/KatyWolfpack - Lone Star Karate
www.lonestarkarate.com - Morgan Wonderland (special needs children)
www.morganswonderland.com/ - Sailing Angels Foundation
www.SailingAngels.org - Special Olympics – Arc of Fort Bend
arcoffortbend.org/programs/special-olympics - Special Family Transitions – Providing Special Needs Divorce Consulting, Coaching and support
www.specialtyfamilytransitions.com
- Texas Swim Academy
www.texasswimacademy.com - TUTS – The River (special needs children)
www.tuts.com/river/performance-troupe - Waves of Impact – Surf Camp
www.wavesofimpact.com - We Rock the Spectrum – Kids’ Gym
www.werockthespectrumsugarland.com
THERAPY
- Ascend Behavior (ABA & Counseling)
- www.ascendbehavior.com
- Action Behaviors
- www.actionbehavior.com
- ALOHA Behavior Telehealth Website
- www.alohabt.com
- APARA Autism Center
- www.Aparaautism.com
- Avilo – Michelle Atanu, OTR (Occupation Therapy)
- www.avilopeds.com
- Behavioral Innovations (ABA)
- www.behavioral-innovations.com
- Bluebonnet Autism PLLC – Sonia Malhotra, M.A., BCBA, LBA
- www.Bluebonnetautism.com
- BlueSprig – ABA Therapy
- www.bluesprigautism.com
- Building Blocks Texas ABA, Scout Cobb, M. Ed., BCBA, LBA
- www.bbtxaba.com
- Butterfly Effects – Transforming Lives Through ABA Therapy
www.butterflyeffects.com - Camp Worth
www.discovercampworth.com - Fast Track ABA Center – Samantha Katchy, M.A., BCBA, LBA www.Fasttrackabacenter.com
- Growing Speech
www.growingspeech.com - Kids Connect Occupational Therapy, LLC
www.kidsconnectot.com - Learning Continuum – Carle Frank, M.A., BCBA
www.lcaba.com - MedCare Pediatric Group – Pediatric Therapy and Nursing
www.medcarepediatric.com - Neurologic Music Therapy
www.harrisoncentermt.com - RiverKids Pediatric Home Health – Pediatric Home Care
www.riverkidstexas.com - Sensory Solutions 4 Kids, Inc – Gayle Evans, MOT, OTR
www.ss4kids.com - Spectacular Kids ABA Therapy & Consulting, LLC
www.speckidsaba.com - Stokan, Jaggers & Associates
www.stokanjaggers.com – Combining psychiatry and counseling services for Katy, TX - Sugar Bend Center – Mental Health Specialists
www.sugarbendcenter.com - Sugar Land Speech and Language
www.sugarlandspeech.com - Teach ABA Learning Center www.teachabatx.com
- Texana Children’s Center for Autism – Gina Mouser, M.Ed. Special Education/Autism Intervention
www.texanacenter.com - Texas Cares Autism
www.texascaresautism.com - The Next Step Academy – A Day Treatment Center for Children with Autism
www.thenextstepacademy.org - The Speech and Learning Center
www.speechandlearning.com - Therapy and Beyond
www.therapyandbeyond.com