Physical disabilities resources
The following are links to recreation opportunities in the Ottawa community for children and youth with physical disabilities.
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- Ability First Ottawa: Provides comprehensive services and supports to individuals and their families
- Archery Canada: Promotes all types of archery to all Canadians
- BEING Studio: Supports artist in visual arts and creative writing
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Ottawa: After-school, weekend and summer programs
- Canadian Paralympic Committee
- Capital City Condors: Special hockey teams for special people
- Capital Wheelchair Curling Club
- Citizen Advocacy: Support, recognize and guide people of all ages and disabilities
- City of Ottawa Inclusive Recreation: Integrated recreation programs offered through various community centres in Ottawa
- Community Care Access Centre: Care at home or in the community
- The Counselling Group: Full range of counselling and support services for children, youth and families
- Crossroad’s Children Center: Mental Health services
- Dovercourt Recreation WAVE: a work and recreation program for adults with special needs
- East Nepean Challenger Baseball: Baseball team for youth/adults of all abilities
- Easter Seals: Helping kids with physical disabilities succeed
- Fitness Dynamics: Triathlon club
- Freedom at Depth: Scuba diving training for people with disabilities
- Friends in Sportfishing: Provides recreational boating and sportfishing
- Girl Guides of Canada: Organization for girls and women making a positive difference
- GleeCeptional: Glee club for children and youth with exceptionalities
- Go Capital Synchro: Synchronized swimming club
- Happy Trails: Therapeutic equestrian centre
- Jack Purcell Recreation Association: Ottawa community centre
- Lanark County Therapeutic Riding: Therapeutic equestrian centre in Lanark county
- LiquidGym Rehab and Training Centre: Unique rehab and fitness centre that incorporate water and land equipment
- The Miracle League of Ottawa: Accessible baseball facility and programs
- National Capital Able Sail Association – Nepean Sailing Club: An adapted sailing program for individuals with physical disabilities
- Ontario Cerebral Palsy Sports Association
- Ontario Wheelchair Sports Association
- Ottawa Art Therapy: Creative interventions & psychotherapy services for all
- Ottawa Carleton Wheelchair Sports Association: Wheelchair Basketball Recreational and competitive wheelchair basketball opportunities to people of all ages, genders and abilities
- Ottawa Gymnastics Centre
- Ottawa Lions Track & Field Club: Inclusive programming for all levels of ability and development
- Ottawa Odyssey Boccia Club: Boccia practices at the Ottawa Rehabilitation centre
- Ottawa Power Wheelchair Hockey League: Recreational and competitive wheelchair floor hockey league
- Ottawa River Canoe Club: PaddleALL: Canoe/kayak program for individuals with disabilities
- Para Racquet Sports (OPRS): Wheelchair Tennis and Para Table Tennis
- Partners in Parenting: Offers a daily program for adults with a variety of disabilities
- Propeller Dance: Inclusive dance program
- Recreational Respite: 1:1 or group recreation programs that support individuals to achieve goals
- Rotary Home: Respite home providing services to children, youth and adults
- Scouts Canada: Offers programs for boys, girls and youth ages 5-26
- Sledge Hockey of Eastern Ontario
- Sonshine Families: Provides residential care to people of all ages as well as a retreat centre, day program and summer camps
- Spinal Cord Injury Ontario: Information on resources, equipment, recreation opportunities and more
- Starr Gymnastics: Provides integration classes that include 1:1 support while being a part of the group
- Sunshine Bowling League: Promotes bowling opportunities for those with disabilities
- S.W.A.M.: Affordable and accessible one-on-one swimming instruction to children with special needs
- Tae E. Lee Taekwondo: Taekwondo for children with disabilities
- Terrace Wellness Group: Offer residential and respite services
- TopShape Inc: Individualized and specialized fitness training solutions and physiotherapy
- Tranquil Acres: Therapeutic equestrian centre servicing the Ottawa region
- TROtt: Therapeutic Riding Association Ottawa-Carleton
- Wheelchair Rugby Canada
- Y’s Owl Maclure Co-operative Centre: Creates daytime opportunities, including employment and life skills training, for people with disabilities
- YMCA-YWCA: Resource for health, fitness and recreation, child care and social services
- Youth Services Bureau: Provides information, opportunities and support for youth
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Developmental disabilities resources
The following are links to recreation opportunities in the Ottawa community for children/youth with Developmental Disabilities.
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- Ability First: Ottawa Provides comprehensive services and supports to individuals and their families
- BEING Studio: Supports artist in visual arts and creative writing
- Best Buddies: Fostering meaningful friendships for people with intellectual disabilities
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Ottawa: After-school, weekend and summer programs
- Capital City Condors: Special hockey teams for special people
- Citizen Advocacy: Support, recognize and guide people of all ages and disabilities
- City of Ottawa Inclusive Recreation: Integrated recreation programs offered through various community centres in Ottawa
- Community Care Access Centre: Care at home or in the community
- The Counselling Group: Full range of counselling and support services for children, youth and families
- Crossroad’s Children Center: Mental Health services
- Destiny’s Way: Support services in Merrickville
- Disability Advocacy Network of Eastern Ontario: Family support, program development and information sharing
- Down Syndrome Association (National Capital Region): Share information, ideas and provide support
- Dovercourt Recreation WAVE: a work and recreation program for adults with special needs
- Dragonfly: Dance programme for learners with Down Syndrome
- East Nepean Challenger Baseball: Baseball team for youth/adults of all abilities
- Families Matter Cooperative: Support and education services in Ottawa
- Friends in Sportfishing: Provides recreational boating and sportfishing
- Girl Guides of Canada: Organization for girls and women making a positive difference
- GleeCeptional: Glee club for children and youth with exceptionalities
- Go Capital Synchro: Synchronized swimming club
- Happy Trails: Therapeutic equestrian centre
- Heart Sounds Yoga: Helping all families find their inner yogi
- Lanark County Therapeutic Riding: Therapeutic equestrian centre in Lanark county
- LiveWorkPlay: Helping people with disabilities live, work and play
- Lotus Centre: Accessible and inclusive music education programs
- Main Street Community Services: Research-based residential and respite services
- The Miracle League of Ottawa: Accessible baseball facility and programs
- OCAPDD: Ottawa-Carleton Association for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
- Ottawa Art Therapy: Creative interventions & psychotherapy services for all
- Ottawa-Carleton Lifeskills Inc.: Residential and day support for adults
- Ottawa Gymnastics Centre
- Ottawa River Canoe Club: PaddleALL: Canoe/kayak program for individuals with disabilities
- Partners in Parenting: Offers a daily program for adults with a variety of disabilities
- Propeller Dance: Inclusive dance program
- Recreational Respite: 1:1 or group recreation programs that support individuals to achieve goals
- Respiteservices.com: Respite services network
- Scouts Canada: Offers programs for boys, girls and youth ages 5-26
- Social Network for Youth: Social group for youth and adults
- Special Olympics: Sports organization where athletes with developmental disabilities can compete
- Starr Gymnastics: Provides integration classes that include 1:1 support while being a part of the group
- Sunshine Bowling League: Promotes bowling opportunities for those with disabilities
- S.W.A.M.: Affordable and accessible one-on-one swimming instruction to children with special needs
- Tae E. Lee Taekwondo: Taekwondo for children with disabilities
- Tamir: Opportunites for people with developmental disabilities in the Ottawa Jewish Community
- Tranquil Acres: Therapeutic equestrian centre servicing the Ottawa region
- Y’s Owl Maclure Co-operative Centre: Creates daytime opportunities, including employment and life skills training, for people with disabilities
- YMCA-YWCA: Resource for health, fitness and recreation, child care and social services
- Youth Services Bureau: Provides information, opportunities and support for youth
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Autism spectrum disorder resources
The following are links to recreation opportunities in the Ottawa community for children/youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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- Ausome Ottawa: Sports and recreation programming to children with autism
- Autism Ontario: Advocacy, information and services
- BEING Studio: Supports artist in visual arts and creative writing
- Best Buddies: Fostering meaningful friendships for people with intellectual disabilities
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa: Mentoring programs for children and youth
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Ottawa: After-school, weekend and summer programs
- Capital City Condors: Special hockey teams for special people
- Children At Risk: Services for families with children with autism
- Citizen Advocacy: Support, recognize and guide people of all ages and disabilities
- City of Ottawa Inclusive Recreation: Integrated recreation programs offered through various community centres in Ottawa
- The Counselling Group: Full range of counselling and support services for children, youth and families
- Crossroad’s Children Center: Mental Health services
- Dovercourt Recreation WAVE: a work and recreation program for adults with special needs
- East Nepean Challenger Baseball: Baseball team for youth/adults of all abilities
- EB Building Blocks: Playgroups, social skills groups and camps
- Friends in Sportfishing: Provides recreational boating and sportfishing
- Girl Guides of Canada: Organization for girls and women making a positive difference
- GleeCeptional: Glee club for children and youth with exceptionalities
- Go Capital Synchro: Synchronized swimming club
- Happy Trails: Therapeutic equestrian centre
- Heart Sounds Yoga: Helping all families find their inner yogi
- Lanark County Therapeutic Riding: Therapeutic equestrian centre in Lanark county
- LiveWorkPlay: Helping people with disabilities live, work and play
- Lotus Centre: Accessible and inclusive music education programs
- Main Street Community Services: Research-based residential and respite services
- The Miracle League of Ottawa: Accessible baseball facility and programs
- Ottawa Art Therapy: Creative interventions & psychotherapy services for all
- Ottawa River Canoe Club: PaddleALL: Canoe/kayak program for individuals with disabilities
- Partners in Parenting: Offers a daily program for adults with a variety of disabilities
- Propeller Dance: Inclusive dance program
- Proset: Autism Inclusive tennis
- Recreational Respite: 1:1 or group recreation programs that support individuals to achieve goals
- Respiteservices.com: Respite services network
- Scouts Canada: Offers programs for boys, girls and youth ages 5-26
- Social Network for Youth: Social group for youth and adults
- Special Olympics: Sports organization where athletes with developmental disabilities can compete
- Spectrum Intervention Group: ABA/IBI therapy provider
- Starr Gymnastics: Provides integration classes that include 1:1 support while being a part of the group
- Steps and Strides: Social skills group and summer camp
- S.W.A.M.: Affordable and accessible one-on-one swimming instruction to children with special needs
- Tae E. Lee Taekwondo: Taekwondo for children with disabilities
- Terrace Wellness Group: Offer residential and respite services
- TIPES: ABA and IBI therapy, social integration programs, vocational skills training
- Tranquil Acres: Therapeutic equestrian centre servicing the Ottawa region
- TROtt: Therapeutic Riding Association Ottawa-Carleton
- Xenia Concerts: Accessible concert experience for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder through Ottawa Chamberfest
- Y’s Owl Maclure Co-operative Centre: Creates daytime opportunities, including employment and life skills training, for people with disabilities
- YMCA-YWCA: Resource for health, fitness and recreation, child care and social services
- Youth Services Bureau: Provides information, opportunities and support for youth
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