Parents with Mild Cognitive Impairments Resources

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Colorado

The Hope Initiative

Located in Westminster, Colorado, The HOPE Initiative is an agency providing individualized parenting education and life skills training to parents with a developmental disability, or learning difficulties.

Kris Saurini, Director; 303-362-0990
kris.saurini@thehopeinitiative.org

Early Intervention Colorado

Early Intervention Colorado is Colorado's Infant and Toddler Initiative under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Early Intervention Colorado is an interagency initiative. The Lead Agency for implementation is the Colorado Department of Human Services. Children of parents with intellectual disability qualify for services.

National

The Association for Successful Parenting: Enhancing the Lives of Families When Parents have Learning Difficulties

Dedicated to enhancing the well-being of at-risk parents with learning difficulties and their children. This primarily includes parents who may be indentified as persons with intellectual disabilities or borderline intellectual functioning.

International

Healthy Start: A National Strategy for Children of Parents with Learning Difficulties

The Healthy Start Practice Network is an online area to link professionals who share a common concern about or interest in supporting parents with learning difficulty [intellectual disability in the USA] and their children. Full of information and resources. Located in Australia, it is accessed by practioners world-wide.

International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities Special Interest Research Group on Parents and Parenting with Intellectual Disabilities

The 2008 IASSID SIRG Position Paper on parents and parenting with Intellectual Disabilities is located here.