South Carolina – Disability Resources

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South Carolina Disability Resources

• Aiken County Board of Disabilities
• BabyNet - early intervention services for SC children with learning disabilities
  – Team for Early Childhood Solutions - USC School of Medicine
  
• Burton Center for Disabilities and Special Needs - serving Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenwood, Lexington, McCormick, and Saluda counties
  
• Center for Disability Resources - University of South Carolina School of Medicine
  – CDR Library
  
• Disabilities Board of Charleston County
• Dorchester County Disabilities and Special Needs Board
  
• Florence County Disabilities and Special Needs Board
  
• Greenville County Disabilities and Special Needs Board
• Laurens County Disabilities and Special Needs Board
• Marion - Dillon County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs
• Newberry County Disabilities & Special Needs Board
  
• Pickens County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs
• Richland/Lexington Disabilities and Special Needs Board
  
• SC Access - information on aging and disability services
• South Carolina Assistive Technology Program - for people with disabilities
  
• South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs
  
• South Carolina Developmental Disabilities Council
• South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind - Spartanburg
  – School for the Multihandicapped - Spartanburg
  
• South Carolina Brain Injury Leadership Council - state's advisory board
  
• South Carolina State Library - services for blind and handicapped
• South Carolina Equipment Distribution Program - SCEDP - providing free telephones for the hearing and speech impaired
  
• SC Upstate Aging & Disability Resource Center - Appalachian Council of Governments - serving Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens, and Spartanburg counties
  
• South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department - employment services
  
  
• How to Apply for Disabled or Handicapped Placards, Tags, and License Plates - SC Department of Motor Vehicles - online appplication is PDF
  

• Assisted living communities in South Carolina
• SC Senior Citizen Resources
• SC Senior Transportation Services

• American Council of the Blind of South Carolina
• DixieLand Guide Dog Users - Charleston
• National Federation of the Blind of South Carolina
• Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic - Southeast Region serves SC - makes audio books
  

• Clarity - Greenville - helping with speech, hearing, learning and developmental challenges
  
• Pee Dee Speech & Hearing Centers - Florence, Myrtle Beach
• South Carolina Association of the Deaf
  – Locate an interpreter - select a SC region
  

• Babcock Center - Columbia - residential facility for men and women with mental and physical handicaps
  
• Barclay School - Columbia - teaching children with learning differences
  
• Berkeley Citizens - Moncks Corner - support and services for those with developmental disabilities including mental retardation, autism, head injuries, and spinal cord injuries
• Brain Injury Alliance of South Carolina
  
• Brain Injury Navigator - information provided by the Outpatient Brain Injury Program of Roger C. Peace Rehabilitation Hospital in Greenville
  
• Camp Discovery - Blythewood - works with abused and special needs children
  
• Caring and Sharing - Hemmingway - food bank and financial assistance for disabled persons in Williamsburg, Georgetown, Horry, southern Florence, and southern Marion Counties
  
• Carolina Autism
• Carolina Canines - trains service dogs - based in NC but works in SC
  
• Carolina Disability - answers questions about Social Security disability
  
• Charles Lea Center - Spartanburg
• Charleston Area Theraputic Riding - Johns Island - serves children and adults with physical, emotional, and mental disabilities
  
• Charleston Miracle League - gives children and adults with special needs the opportunity to play baseball
  
• Columbia Parkinson's Support Group
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - SC Chapter
  
• Disability Action Center - Midlands and Upstate - helping people with disabilities live independently
  
• disAbility Resource Center - North Charleston - providing skills and support for independent living
  
• Dogs for Autism - Greenville - trains dogs to work with children with autism
  
• Easter Seals South Carolina
• Family Connection - a support network for SC families who have children with special needs
  
• Family Resource Center for Disabilities and Special Needs - Charleston - for parents who have children with disabilities
  
• Harbison Area Wheels Transit - Columbia - transportation for seniors and disabled
  
• Healing Farm Ministries - Charleston - serving families and individuals with developmental disabilities
  
• Heroes on Horseback - Bluffton - equine activities for individuals with physical, mental, or emotional disabilities
  
• LifeManagement Center - Charleston and Walterboro - serving those with learning disabilities and ADHD
  
• Meyer Center - Greenville - therapy for preschool children with disabilities
  
• Palmetto Animal Assisted Life Services - training service animals for physically disabled
  
• Parents Reaching Out to Parents - supporting families of children with all types of disabilities
  
• Pattison's Academy - serving severe and multi-handicapped children in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties
  
• Pee Dee Speech & Hearing Centers - Florence, Myrtle Beach
• Project HOPE Foundation - Greenville - helping children with autism
  
• Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities
  
• Rein & Shine - Awendaw - using horses to heal children and adults with limitations
  
• South Carolina Autism Society
• South Carolina Fibromyalgia Support Group
• South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Association
• Southeast ADA Center
  
• Special Olympics of South Carolina
  
• STAR Riding & Driving - Aiken - therapeutic horse-back riding
  
• Therapy Place - Columbia - physical, occupational, and speech therapy for children
  
• Tri-Development Center of Aiken County - serves children and adults with autism, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, mental retardation, and related disabilities
  
• Trident Academy - Mount Pleasant - 5K12 school for children with learning disabilities