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CEREBRAL PALSY RESOURCES IN

South Central Michigan

Cerebral Palsy Resources in South Central Michigan

We have compiled a list of cerebral palsy resources for residents who live in South Central Michigan. This region includes Ann Arbor, Lansing, Brighton, Chelsea, Ypsilanti, Jackson, and surrounding cities. We encourage residents with cerebral palsy to contact nearby cities and communities for services, programs, and medical facilities that serve their unique needs.

Treatment and Insurance

Daily Living & Activities

Support Organizations

Treatment

Insurance

Ann Arbor Area
- The Ann Arbor Alternative Medicine Directory: This directory includes a comprehensive list of the alternative and complementary forms of treatment offered around Ann Arbor, such as acupuncture, chiropractic medicine, and homeopathy.
- Ann Arbor Body & Mind: Jan Sevde of Ann Arbor Body & Mind is a certified Anat Baniel Method (ABM) practitioner that provides rehabilitation programs for people with cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injuries, neurological issues, and other conditions.
- The Ann Arbor Center for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics: The Ann Arbor Center for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics provides diagnosis, assessment, therapy, referral, and consulting for a number of pediatric developmental conditions in Ann Arbor.
- Briarwood MedRehab: The Briarwood MedRehab facility offers occupational and physical therapy, rehabilitation psychology, and speech-language pathology.
- Burlington Building: The Burlington Building offers medical services including the cerebral palsy treatment, advice on choosing the appropriate wheelchair, neurosurgical procedures, and more.
- Center for Neuropsychology, Learning, and Development, Ann Arbor: This center serves the community by providing quality mental health care to children, adolescents, adults, and families.
- C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital: C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital offers cutting-edge treatments and therapies for children with cerebral palsy. In addition to care for physical conditions, they provide behavioral and mental health services, social work, and more.
- Eisenhower Center: Eisenhower Center offers physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Their therapists work one-on-one with patients to address their individual needs, sometimes through in-home visits. Psychological counseling and other support services are also available.
- The Judson Center: This center provides both in- and outpatient behavioral health services for people with mental health issues and developmental disabilities.
- Listening and Language Connections, LLC: Listening and Language Connections provides auditory-verbal support and family-centered aural habilitation services to children with hearing loss.
- Michigan Medicine: The University of Michigan’s hospitals have been ranked number one in Michigan and sixth in the nation. by U.S. News and World Report. Their main complex is in Ann Arbor, but they offer smaller facilities throughout the state.
- University of Michigan Center for the Child and Family: This center offers various mental health services that can help people solve relationship issues, improve their social skills, manage learning disabilities, and more.
- University of Michigan Center for Language and Literacy: This organization helps children, teens, and young adults with language disorders. They offer speech-language evaluations and therapy services.
- University of Michigan Comprehensive Care for Cerebral Palsy: This is a team of specialists from many different areas who work together to provide comprehensive, coordinated care for individuals with cerebral palsy.
- University of Michigan Integrative Medicine: University of Michigan Integrative Medicine is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to the integration of complementary and alternative medicine with traditional medicine.
- University of Michigan Pediatric Rehabilitation Center: The University of Michigan Pediatric Rehabilitation Center offers physical, occupational, and speech language therapy programs tailored specifically to children’s individual issues.
- University of Michigan Sound Support: The UM Department of Otolaryngology funds Sound Support, a program that assesses, identifies, and rehabilitates hearing loss and communication delays in children. Sound Support specialists provide consultations and connects patients with the proper medical professionals.
Brighton Area
- Brighton Health Center: Run by Michigan Medicine, this center provides primary and specialty care to its patients.
- Howell Pediatric and Teen Center: Run by Michigan Medicine, this center provides psychological services and social work, along with nutrition appointments, chronic illness management, and more.
- Leaps and Bounds Therapy Services: They provide physical, occupational, and speech therapy to children with disabilities, among other offerings.
- Oxford Recovery Center: A center that provides integrated therapy, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), brain injury treatments, medical counseling, and other services to children and adults with disabilities. Locations in Brighton and Troy.
- St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Livingston: Their services include physical therapy, speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, pediatric therapy, and care for neurological diagnoses.
Lansing Area
- The Abbott Road Center for the Family: This is an East Lansing, Michigan behavioral, mental, and emotional health care and treatment facility, where clinical psychologists use psychotherapy and counseling tactics to improve the emotional and mental health of patients.
- Capitol Physical Therapy: They offer physical, occupational, pediatric, and hand therapy (which can improve grip and dexterity).
- CAPTA Physical Therapy: Based in East Lansing, this organization offers pediatric physical, occupational, and speech-language therapy.
- Carson City Hospital: This hospital offers physical therapy and rehabilitation treatments on inpatient, outpatient, and home health care bases.
- Children’s Therapy Corner (CTC): This group provides therapeutic and rehabilitation services for children from birth through school age. Services include applied behavioral analysis, aquatic therapy, music therapy, physical therapy, an and much more. They have multiple locations.
- Creative Wellness: This East Lansing holistic therapy center provides a handful of alternative and complementary therapy programs.
- Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital: This is a comprehensive rehabilitation hospital based out of Grand Rapids. They have a partnership with Sparrow Hospital called Mary Free Bed at Sparrow.
- McLaren Greater Lansing Hospital: This facility provides emergency services, surgery, neurology, physical therapy, and much more.
- Michigan State University Rehabilitation: This multidisciplinary rehabilitation clinic in East Lansing offers physical therapy, occupational therapy, neuropsychology, and psychology services.
- PhysioTherapy Associates: This is an East Lansing, Michigan multidisciplinary therapy provider. Services include physical therapy, occupational therapy, manual therapy, post- and pre-operative therapy, orthotic services, and a variety of other offerings.
- Sparrow Hospital: The largest hospital within Sparrow Health System, Sparrow Hospital offers some of the region’s leading centers for trauma, pediatrics, orthopedics, neonatal intensive care, neurological care, and more.
- The Sparrow Professional Building: Located next to Sparrow Hospital, this building partners with the University of Michigan Health System’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital to provide pediatric surgical care.
- Sparrow Specialty Hospital: Sparrow Specialty Hospitals provides longer-term health care for patients with traumatic injuries or other complex medical conditions.
Ypsilanti Area
- Rainbow Rehabilitation Centers, Inc.: Rainbow provides comprehensive care and rehabilitation services for patients with brain and spinal cord injuries. Their Ypsilanti Treatment Center is equipped with a fitness center, therapeutic spa, sauna, indoor pool, greenhouse, woodworking center, and more.
- Select Specialty Hospitals: Select Specialty Hospitals have 11 locations in Michigan. They are long-term acute care health center for patients with continued and significant medical needs. Typical patients at Select Specialty Hospitals will have already completed intensive medical treatment for their condition, but will require residual care.
- St. Joseph Mercy Health System: This hospital system boasts state-of-the-art facilities, and serves six counties in Southeast Michigan. They specialize in cancer, cardiovascular conditions, orthopedics, robotic surgery, senior services, and women and children’s health, but also offer treatment for a variety of other complex conditions.
- The University of Michigan Health System operates Ypsilanti Health Center, which offers family medicine, pediatrics, and more. Additionally, many Ypsilanti residents also enjoy the cutting edge medical facilities in Ann Arbor, such as the University of Michigan Medical Center and CS Mott Children’s Hospital.

Children’s Special Health Care Services (CSHCS): This Washtenaw County program can help families determine the best specialty treatments, cover pediatric medical bills and other expenses, coordinate care plans, and more.

Children with Special Needs (CSN) Fund: The CSN Fund is a privately-funded program within Michigan’s Children’s Special Health Care Services (CSHCS) program that was designed as a backup fund for assisting children with special needs when other funds are unavailable. The CSN Fund helps families acquire equipment and resources to aid children’s mobility, health, independence, and quality of life.

C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital Financial Assistance Directory: C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital provides a comprehensive guide to medical insurance and financial assistance for uninsured children and pregnant women.

Disability Determination Services: There are four government-run DDS offices in the state of Michigan; they are located in Detroit, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Traverse City. The DDS determines the eligibility of Michigan residents to collect benefits under the Social Security disability programs.

Healthy Kids/Healthy Kids Dental: This Medicaid health care program is reserved for low-income children below the age of 19. Lansing’s local Department of Human Resources provides consultation and information about Healthy Kids.

Michigan Medicine Financial Assistance: The UM Health System provides financial assistance guidelines for medical services on their website. For families or patients without sufficient insurance coverage for treatment, they have a program called MSupport.

MIChild Children’s Health Insurance Program: This is a state-run insurance program that provides coverage for children from low-income families.

Social Security Administration: This site offers advice regarding Social Security Disability benefits.

The United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) Michigan Employment Loan Fund: This fund uses low-interest loans to reduce or eliminate barriers to employment. The program helps disabled residents buy business equipment, educational materials, and training materials as needed.

Education

Home Care

Housing

Employment

Transportation

Assistive Technology

Recreation

Ann Arbor Area Educational Resources:
- Ann Arbor Academy: The Ann Arbor Academy is a private school for students with learning disabilities and other difficulties. They teach grades four through twelve.
- The Ann Arbor Preschool and Family Center: Several programs offered by the Ann Arbor Preschool and Family Center serve preschool age students regardless of disability.
- Briarwood Milestones NeuroRehabilitation Program: Part of this program’s interdisciplinary approach includes special education and therapeutic schooling.
- The Center for Neuropsychology Learning & Development (CNLD): This center helps vulnerable or disabled patients develop the skills necessary to reach their full potentials.
- C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital School Program: Mott has certified teachers on the hospital campus who coordinate with children’s schools and provide continued education during hospital stays.
- Early On Michigan: Early On Michigan provides early intervention services for children ages 0-3 years with disabilities and/or developmental delays.
- Head Start: Head Start is a federally-funded early childhood program that serves children ages three to five. They welcome children with disabilities.
- Michigan Office of Special Education: The Michigan Department of Education’s Office of Special Education provides information regarding state programs, assessments, procedures, and more.
- Stone School Cooperative Preschool: This nursery welcomes special needs children to their educational child care programs.
- University of Michigan Services for Students with Disabilities: A service within the University of Michigan that assists students with disabilities. They assign these students disability coordinators to help them receive necessary lifestyle and academic accommodations.
- Washtenaw Community College: Washtenaw Community College provides tutoring and learning disability assessments for children, adolescents, and adults around Ann Arbor.
Lansing Area Educational Resources:
- DeWitt Public Schools Special Education and Special Services: This department provides special education services for students near DeWitt.
- Early On Michigan: Early On Michigan provides early intervention services for children ages 0-3 years with disabilities and/or developmental delays.
- Head Start: Head Start is a federally-funded early childhood program that serves children ages three to five. They welcome children with disabilities.
- Ingham Intermediate School District Special Education: This department provides special education services for students near Mason.
- Lansing School District Department of Special Education: This department provides special education services for students in the Lansing area.
- Michigan Office of Great Start: The Office of Great Start ensures that children from birth to age eight have high access to education and learning programs and enter kindergarten prepared for success.
- Michigan Office of Special Education: The Michigan Department of Education’s Office of Special Education provides information regarding state programs, assessments, procedures, and more.
- The Michigan State University Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities (RCPD): This center provides a comprehensive range of supports, information, services, programs, and resources for students with disabilities.
Ypsilanti Area Educational Resources
- Eastern Michigan University Disability Resource Center: A program at EMU which strives to make the campus as accessible as possible and include those with a broad range of disabilities.
- The Student Advocacy Center of Michigan: Located in Ypsilanti, this program helps vulnerable students, including those with disabilities, stay in school and achieve academic success.
- The Washtenaw Intermediate School District (WISD) Special Education Department: Services include early childhood programs, parent support, assistive technology assistance, and more.

Note: For the sake of concision, the list of special education services provided by different school districts are far from complete. Public schools are required to take specific measures to accommodate students with disabilities, under the federal individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Rehabilitation Act (RA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). For more extensive information about services provided, please be sure to check out your local schools' websites. If you believe your child's school is not complying with disability laws and your child is suffering, it may be worthwhile to consult a disability advocacy nonprofit (see our section on "Support Organizations") or an attorney."

Ann Arbor Partners in Personal Assistance (PPA): PPA is a non-profit organization that provides home- and community-based personal assistance services for individuals with disabilities and other care needs.

Bright Star Care: This care provider offers in-home care for children with special needs.

Care.com: Care.com is a website that helps families nationwide to find babysitters and nannies. Their special needs pages have information about local caregivers for both children and adults with disabilities, as well as tutors and therapy dog handlers.

Children’s Special Health Care Services (CSHCS): CSHCS helps individuals with special needs access appropriate health care, health education, and resources. While there is typically a fee required to join CSHCS, this payment is waived if the child is on Medicaid.

Children’s Waiver Program (CWP): CWP is a federal program that provides home and community-based services to children with developmental disabilities, behavioral abnormalities, and/or medically complex conditions.

Judson Center: The Judson Center provides comprehensive services to children, adults, and families with developmental disabilities and mental health challenges.

MSU Special Needs Support: The Michigan State University Family Resource Center provides a list of care resources for the parents of children with special needs. They also provide an email group that connects MSU parents and faculty with others who have special needs children.

St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Hospital’s Home Care: Services provide patients with the periodic skilled services necessary to receive treatment for chronic health problems at home. Specialists include nurses, social workers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, home health aids, pediatric practitioners, and more.

The Washtenaw County Department of Human Services: This department provides respite care for families with emotionally-challenged children.

Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living (CIL): The Center for Independent Living is a wonderful and comprehensive lifestyle resource for those with cerebral palsy or another birth injury. In terms of disability housing and living, the Center provides independent living coaching and advice on the transition from medical facilities to independent living.

The Ann Arbor Housing Commission (AAHC): The commission provides housing to low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled. The AAHC administers Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, which allow tenants to live in a privately-owned property with particular AAHC rent subsidies.

Avalon Housing: Avalon Housing, a nonprofit in Washtenaw County that develops and manages permanent supportive housing, provides affordable housing to people in low income brackets and those with disabilities.

The City of East Lansing Housing Commission: This housing commission gives advice on matters related to low-income, minority, elderly, and disability housing within East Lansing, Michigan.

Expertise.com: This guide aims to make the process of remodeling homes for accessibility much easier, by detailing available federal resources.

Judson Center: A nonprofit human service agency in southeast Michigan that provides a variety of services, including respite care, employment assistance, and resale assistive technologies.

Michigan Ability Partners: This company provides housing services to those with special needs. Services include housing placement, eviction prevention, and a representative payee service for financial help.

Michigan Cerebral Palsy Non Profit Housing Corporation: This public charity provides housing for those with birth defects and genetic diseases including cerebral palsy. To learn more about this resource, click here.

Rainbow Rehabilitation Services: Rainbow provides assisted housing for individuals living with special health, living, or recovery needs.

Real Life Living Services: Real Life Living Services (RLLS), a member of the Michigan Assisted Living Association, provides living support to people with various disabilities. Trained staff members evaluate the individual needs of each client and provide community living support services, children’s respite services, home help, and employment services. They have Michigan offices in Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, and Manistee.

The Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living (CIL): This center that provides career service is another great resource for finding career advice, placement, and support around Ann Arbor.

Job Accommodation Network (JAN): In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), this United States Department of Labor resource provides guidance on employment accommodations and disability employment issues.

Michigan Ability Partners: This group provides vocational services for those with disabilities around Michigan. Services include career placement, career counseling, transitional work training, and career planning. Michigan Ability Partners has offices in Ann Arbor and Jackson, Michigan.

Michigan Rehabilitation Services (MRS): MRS helps people with disabilities find and maintain employment. Additionally, MRS transition services support the transition of disabled high school students to adult activities, employment, and independence.

Project SEARCH: An internship program that strives to help young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities acquire occupational skills and prepare for the workplace. They have 16 locations in Michigan.

The Pure Michigan Workforce Development Agency: This agency provides a number of employment resources for Michigan citizens. These include assistance for job seekers, hiring assistance for employers, policy guidance, and more.

The Rainbow Rehabilitation Services Vocational Rehab Campus: Located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, the Vocational Rehab Campus provides job training, vocational counseling day treatment services, physical wellness programs, and other work-related services.

Real Life Living Services: This service provides supported employment services for people with disabilities in Ann Arbor.

The United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) Michigan Employment Loan Fund: This fund uses low-interest loans to reduce or eliminate barriers to employment. The program helps disabled residents buy business equipment, educational materials, and training materials as needed for employment.

Amtrak: This company provides guidelines for special needs customers. Read about them here.

A-Ride (ADA/Disability Services): Ann Arbor’s A-Ride is a shared-ride, demand-responsive form of public transportation available to and created specifically for those individuals whose disabilities prevent them from using the fixed-route bus. A-Ride buses are equipped with ramps and lifts for wheelchair and walker accessibility.

CATA: Lansing’s public transit Service, CATA, provides paratransit service (CATA Spec-Tran Service) on advance registration, as well as a detailed webpage on their disability resources.

Health Plus Transportation: Health Plus Transportation is an Ypsilanti-based non-emergency medical transportation company that serves individuals in wheelchairs. Staff members transport patrons to medical appointments, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and private homes.

Michigan Transportation Services: MTS provides transportation services for ambulatory and non-ambulatory passengers around Lansing and a number of other cities in Michigan.

MyRide: A mobility management service that provides information about travel and trip planning services, trip fare assistance, and travel training (lessons on how to utilize public transportation and plan realistic routes).

The Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living (CIL): This center provides information and resources about assistive technologies. Learn how to use this equipment, where to find it, and more here.

The Ann Arbor District Library: With several locations in Ann Arbor, this library provides a number of assistive technology resources for the blind and physically disabled.

Alt+Shift: Alt+Shift provides technical assistance, support materials, training, and a large assistive technologies lending library in order to support the needs of students with disabilities. Alt+Shift education services include workshops, seminars, and training opportunities for educators and professionals. Both the Alt+Shift office and the Alt+Shift Lending Library are located near Lansing.

Clock Mobility: Clock Mobility, a company that provides mobility vehicles, has inventories for custom vehicles, pre-owned custom vehicles, and wheelchair accessible van rentals.

Danmar Products: This company manufactures adaptive equipment and assistive technologies for medical professionals, caregivers, and end users.

First Presbyterian Church, Holt, Medical Lending Closet: Located in Ingham County, this is a lending closet that collects and provides medical equipment to those in need in the community.

Michigan Loan Closets: This directory is a great resource for finding assistive technology and adaptive equipment loan opportunities near you.

The Pediatric Rehabilitation Center: The University of Michigan Health System’s Pediatric Rehabilitation Center offers assisted technology and adapted gaming for rehabilitative purposes.

River Terrace Church Medical Lending Closet: A medical closet in East Lansing which provides wheelchairs, elevated toilet seats, tub benches, and many other forms of equipment to those in need.

Sparrow Hospital Children’s Center: Sparrow’s children’s center provides personalized orthotics to children with bone, joint, or muscle impairments.

The University of Michigan Orthotics and Prosthetics Center: This center provides services to children and adults requiring orthotic and prosthetic devices in Ann Arbor and around Michigan.

Wheelchair Seating Service: The University of Michigan Health System’s Wheelchair Seating Service provides custom mobility products to children and adults with mobility limitations in Ann Arbor.

Recreational Therapy Programs
- Constraint Induced Therapy (CHAMP): Briarwood Milestones’ Constraint Induced Therapy targets patients’ affected upper limbs by eliminating use of the stronger limbs. In this program, children are encouraged to play with toys, participate in sports, and take part in other forms of recreational therapy using their non-dominant side.
- Lansing Parks & Recreation Therapeutic Recreation: Lansing’s Parks & Recreation sponsors the Therapeutic Recreation (TR) Program to help both disabled and non-disabled members of the community maintain physical and psychological health and participate in community socialization.
- NeuroRehabilitation Program: The University of Michigan Health System’s NeuroRehabilitation program combines recreational therapy with other forms of therapy to add enjoyment to treatment processes.
- Sparrow Specialty Hospital: This hospital program integrates music therapy into treatment regimens to alleviate the stresses of a prolonged hospital stay.
Aquatic Therapy
- Eisenhower Center: The Eisenhower Center’s aquatic therapy pool features an underwater treadmill, a body harness, a lift for wheelchair accessibility, and massage jets. Aquatic therapy is an important and fun part of physical rehabilitation at the Eisenhower Center.
Animal therapy
- Beekman Therapeutic Riding Center: Beekman Riding Center provides therapeutic horseback riding and hippotherapy classes year-round to students of different abilities and levels of experience. Beekman instructors are experienced and trained, and many are certified by the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International.
- Children and Horses United in Movement (C.H.U.M.) Therapeutic Riding: This facility in Dansville, Michigan offers adaptive horseback riding, hippotherapy, and therapeutic horseback riding sessions.
- C.S. Mott Therapaws: C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital sponsors a pet therapy program to diminish the stresses of hospitalization, illness, recovery, and disability. Trained therapy dogs visit patients in their hospital rooms, during physical and occupational therapy sessions, in waiting rooms, and in other settings.
- Michigan Abilities Center (MAC): MAC is an Ann Arbor resource for equine-assisted therapy. MAC programs and lessons focus on strengths and abilities, rather than disabilities, to achieve personal goals, improve function, promote self-esteem, and empower clients.
- Therapeutic Riding, Inc. (TRI): TRI is a non-profit organization that provides disabled children and adults with horseback riding lessons. To read more about the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social benefits of therapeutic horseback riding, visit this page.
Sports
- Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living (CIL): The Ann Arbor CIL offers a number of sports programs, teams, and facilities for people with a range of disabilities. Some sports offerings include cycling, a fitness gym, bowling, wheelchair basketball, tennis, rugby, floor hockey, volleyball, football, paddling, and more. The CIL also sponsors the IRide Adaptive Cycling Event. This is an annual four-day cycling challenge that starts in St. Joseph, MI and concludes in Ann Arbor. The event raises funds for the Ann Arbor CIL Sports and Recreation Program.
- The Ann Arbor Rockets: This is Ann Arbor’s special hockey team. Rockets Hockey provides opportunities for children with physical, developmental, and cognitive disabilities to participate in an organized sport.
- The Michigan State University Adaptive Recreation Program: This program offers a range of adaptive sports and recreational opportunities to individuals with disabilities. Activities offered include swimming and aquatics, goalball, wheelchair tennis, wheelchair basketball, open recreation, and much more.
- The Michigan Victory Games: This tournament provide disabled athletes with the ability to participate in competitive, organized sports. Since its formation, the Michigan Victory Games have sent several athletes to the Paralympics, World Games, and National Sports Festival.
- Mt. Brighton: Mt. Brighton offers many adaptive sports lessons (skiing and snowboarding) for individuals with disabilities.
- Programs to Educate all Cyclists (PEAC): This is an Ypsilanti, Michigan-based program that teaches disabled individuals cycling skills. The program works to help disabled cyclists integrate into mainstream cycling culture and their communities by providing them with transportation, recreational opportunities, and therapy skills and services.
- Wheelchair Hockey League: This league, located in Pinckney, allows wheelchair users to participate in competitive hockey.
Art
- The Plymouth Community Arts Council: This arts group sponsors art summer camps for children with disabilities. Exercises range across the arts and each camper can participate in the activities he or she is most interested in.
Camps
- Leslie Nature Center: This nature center offers school break camps and summer camps that can accommodate special needs children. Camps focus on nature, adventure, and the natural sciences.
- NeuroRehabilitation Summer Therapy Program: The University of Michigan Health System’s NeuroRehabilitation Program offers a summer therapy program for children adapting to and recovering from neurological disease or brain injury. Summer camp programs provide patients with intensive, interdisciplinary exercises in a fun and inclusive environment.
- YMCA Day Camps: Children with special needs are welcome at the YMCA’s many day camps.
Accessible Playgrounds
- All Kids Playground: This park is located at Park 230 E. Dill Dr. in DeWitt, Michigan 48820. This accessible playground includes ramps, sound-play components, and accessible swings.
- Boundless™ Playground at High Point School: High Point School’s Boundless Playground has even surfaces for wheelchairs, wheelchair lifts to play structures, and wheelchair ramps. Boundless Playground is located at 1735 S. Wagner Road in Ann Arbor, MI 48106.
- Brighton Imagination Station: This 10,000-ft. accessible playground is in downtown Brighton. This playground contains sound-play components, a safety fence enclosing the structure, and a single entrance to help parents keep track of their children.
- Haisley Elementary School Playground: Located at 825 Duncan St., Ann Arbor, MI 48103, Haisley Elementary School Playground has even surfaces for wheelchair and walker accessibility, ramps, a wheelchair accessible swing, sound-play components (musical instruments integrated into the play structures), and play components for visually-impaired children (including Braille surfaces, textures, and fragrances).
- Henry Fine Park Tot Lot at Pinecrest Elementary School: This playground is located on Winchester Drive in East Lansing, Michigan 48823. The Henry Fine Park Tot Lot features smooth surfaces, cushioned surfaces, and wheelchair ramps within and around the playground.
- North School Playground: Lansing children can enjoy the accessible playground at the North School. The playground offers flat, wheelchair-accessible surfaces and can be found at 333 E. Miller Road Lansing, MI 48911.
- Patriarche Park Playground: Patriarche Park is located in East Lansing, Michigan and includes smooth surfaces, cushioned surfaces, ramps, transfer stations (equipment lifts), and accessible swings. The address is 1100 Alton St, East Lansing, MI 48823.
Miscellaneous
- Brighton Recreation Area: This area provides numerous recreation opportunities, including an accessible fishing and boating pier, beach house, and a universally-accessible trail.
- Discovery Gardens: Discovery Gardens has two community organic garden sites in Ann Arbor that accommodate all community members regardless of ability. To support easy access, Discovery Gardens has raised beds, accessible pathways, instructional help and guidance, and a setup well suited for the visually-impaired.
- Rolling Hills County Park Fishing: At the four-acre pond at Rolling Hills County Park, visitors may fish from the bank or from two wheelchair-accessible fishing piers.
- Sleepy Hollow State Park: At this state park, you can find accessible camping, fishing, paddling, and recreational facilities. Barrier-free facilities include a boat launch, beach house, and picnic tables. Sleepy Hollow State park is located in Langsburg, Michigan.

Support Organizations

The Arc: The Arc is a national nonprofit that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The work to protect civil rights and programs that people with disabilities rely on, as well as provide a number of valuable services to help individuals and their families. The have a number of chapters in Michigan.

The Ann Arbor Commission on Disability Issues: This commission has compiled a disability resource directory for its disabled citizens. This page lists the various national, state, and community resources available to people with disabilities.

The Brain Injury Association of Michigan (BIAMI): BIAMI helps people with brain injuries by providing support groups, education, advocacy, research and prevention.

The Capital Area Center for Independent Living: This center provides a range of programs and services for the disabled residents of Lansing, including independent living support, community awareness initiatives, and more.

C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital Charity: C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital encourages the public to donate funds and resources to support pediatric medicine, research, education, facilities, and other resources.

Disability Connections Jackson, MI: A non-profit that provides ramps, respite care, a medical equipment loan closet, parent education, independent living support, and other tools to assist those with disabilities.

Disability Network Capital Area: A network which offers community information, independent living resources, peer support, and referrals to individuals with disabilities.

Easter Seals AgrAbility: This is a statewide program that provides adaptive equipment for Michigan farmers who have an injury, disability, or illness and require accommodations to continue farming.

The Family Center for Children & Youth with Special Needs: This program gives the parents of special needs children the opportunity to impact public policies that affect youth with disabilities.

Head Start: Head Start is a federally-funded early childhood program that serves children ages three to five. They welcome children with disabilities.

Judson Center: A nonprofit human service agency in southeast Michigan that provides a variety of services, including respite care, employment assistance, and resale assistive technologies.

The Learning Disabilities Association (LDA): The Michigan branch aims to promote the wellbeing and educational pursuits of people with learning disabilities.

The Michigan Bureau of Services for Blind Persons (BSBP): They can assist blind citizens with defining and reaching goals. The BSBP provides training and counseling, adaptive equipment, and post-secondary education services.

The Michigan Commission on Disability Concerns (MDCR): This commission responds to disability advocates. The agency offers information and technical assistance resources for employers, state and local government, people with disabilities, families, and the public.

The Michigan Developmental Disabilities Council: This group helps people with developmental disabilities achieve their goals through advocacy, promotion of proper treatment and public services, giving grants, and more.

Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service, Inc. (MPAS): MPAS is a private non-profit organization that advocates for and protects the legal rights of Michigan’s disabled residents.

Michigan State University Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities: This is a resource center that connects students with disabilities to the resources they need on campus, including accessible housing, assistive technologies, transportation services, and other accommodations.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): NAMI is a non-profit organization that aims to improve the wellbeing of those with mental illnesses. NAMI provides educational resources, campaigns for updated disability policy, sponsors events, and raises funds and awareness.

Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency: This agency provides human services to senior citizens, individuals with disabilities, and those suffering from economic hardship.

Project SEARCH: An internship program that strives to help young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities acquire occupational skills and prepare for the workplace. They have 16 locations in Michigan.

The Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan: Located near Sparrow Hospital, the Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan provides family members of hospitalized children with a comfortable, relaxing place to stay.

The University of Michigan Council for Disability Concerns (CFDC): The CFDC addresses disability issues affecting members of the University of Michigan community.

Washtenaw Association for Community Advocacy (WACA): WACA is a disability organization that fights for equal opportunities, community inclusion, and respect for people with disabilities.

We hope you find this guide to be of use! Please note that we have not personally verified the quality of services provided by each of these organizations; much of the information comes from internet searches. When considering resources for yourself or a loved one, we recommend that you conduct your own research.

If you have a favorite organization that benefits people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities, please reach out and let us know! We are always learning about more resources, and will continue to update this guide with new information.

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