The abilitySTRONG Parade is a celebration of the belief that disability is a natural and beautiful part of the human diversity in which people living with a disability can take pride. On the first Saturday of October, children and adults with disabilities, their support networks, and the community that supports them will take to the streets in the heart of downtown San Antonio, to be a part of a vision to change the way we think about and define disability.

The abilitySTRONG Parade brings the local community together to focus on diversity and inclusion and celebrate the strengths, abilities, and beauty of the children and adults living with a disability in San Antonio.

Click here in September for the parade route.

AccessAbility Fest is a gateway to information, resources, and opportunities for individuals working to overcome barriers caused by physical, cognitive, sensory, and mental health challenges.

AccessAbility Fest is for individuals of all abilities, including those with physical, developmental, sensory and/or mental health challenges, and it connects over 4,500 individuals to resources each year, creating opportunities for disability service organizations to collaborate, make referrals, and provide more comprehensive services.

This program is held in high traffic venues to raise awareness about the value, successes, and potential of people with disabilities among the general public.

The festival is FREE and OPEN for the public to attend.

The Home & Community-Based Services that ResCare offers are focused on helping individuals stay in their personal homes rather than moving to a Group Home or Large ICF for care. We meet the needs of people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) by offering medical support and daily living support in the setting of their choosing.

Individuals who seek Home & Community-Based Services can choose which services they need that best fit their unique abilities.

These services can include:

• skilled nursing care
• therapies
• personal care
• respite care
• mental health services 
• much more

disABILITYsa Creative Services offers marketing design, layout and printing services for nonprofit organizations serving children and adults living with a disability in the San Antonio community. By doing so, we are able to help fulfill the mission of disABILITYsa to strengthen the nonprofit organizations that serve individuals living with a disability in San Antonio by moving funding out of their marketing budgets and back into programming and direct services.

The Food for Thought educational series offers nonprofit leaders serving within disability service organizations the opportunity for low-cost education on topics within the realms of planning, HR, finance, fundraising, marketing, story-telling, management principles, and more. Serving up a little food for thought along with some tasty morsels, we bring these educational tidbits to community leaders over lunch. This is a valuable opportunity for nonprofit leadership to learn, network, and discover.

Winter weather in Texas can be severe, so it’s important to be prepared. Check out our How to Prepare for a Disaster video to learn what steps you can take to be ready and stay safe.

Disability Rights Texas works to help Texans with disabilities prepare for, and recover from, disasters and emergencies.

Click here to read all of our resources on Disaster Preparedness and Recovery.

Our agency champions healthcare access for all individuals with disabilities. We believe that people with disabilities should have access to healthcare coverage and services that meet their unique needs and that all services should be readily available, affordable, accessible, and accountable.

To achieve these goals, Disability Rights Texas’s efforts include individual casework, training programs, and advocacy for public policies that support access to quality healthcare and services for individuals with disabilities.

For information related to this topic that is provided in American Sign Language (ASL), visit our Healthcare Videos on ASL Page.

ECI resources: For information about services for children with delays or disabilities who are 0-3 years old, please see our Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) Resource page.

Click here to access all of our healthcare resources, educational, and advocacy information.

Hospital-to-Home Transition
For a medically complex child or adult, the transition from hospital to home can be a difficult one. Our mission is to make this process smoother and less overwhelming by assisting with everything from coordinating the discharge process with the hospital case manager, to settling in after the first time you take your baby home. No matter your situation, having the right help in place can make a world of difference to you and your family.

Our prescribed pediatric extended care services let your kids be kids. Our state-of-the-art facility was designed with children in mind, allowing them to play, dream, and grow — all while meeting their physiological, developmental, nutrition, and social needs. Our goal, through PPEC, is to impact the lives of our medically complex children from the early stages of life all the way into early adulthood.

What is PPEC?
Prescribed pediatric extended care, or PPEC for short, is provided at a non-residential center that serves medically complex or technologically dependent children under the age of 21 who require short, long-term, or intermittent medical care due to medically complex conditions.

The ACP PPEC provides services to medically complex children who cannot attend a regular daycare. Our services meet the child’s physiological, developmental, nutrition, and social needs. We provide nursing and psychosocial services, developmental therapies, caregiver training, and personal care support to our children.

Our Private-Duty Nurses are equipped with the skills to accompany your child to school if it is required by a physician. School nursing services can be added to your child’s plan of care and the nurse assigned can help your child with physical tasks, such as:

• Accompanying the child on the school-provided transportation
• Providing medical care during the school day such as:
• Medication administration
• Tracheostomy and ventilator care
• Additional care ordered by a physician
• Assisting a child with classroom activities
• Serve as the child’s care advocate

Advanced Care Partners entered the adult care market when our patients started to age out of the pediatric programs we serve. Every family that transitions from caring for a medically complex “child” to caring for an “adult” understands how challenging this time can be. As our children age, they often require more specialized and intensive care. We build strong bonds with our families that last a lifetime, just like the care we provide. From birth to adulthood, we are your partner for in-home adult care every step of the way.

Nursing Services
We offer nursing services (also known as private-duty nursing) for medically complex patients through the Medicaid COMP and NOW waiver, private insurance, and private pay. We provide care for:

• Neurological Disorders
• Cardiac Conditions
• Respiratory Disease
• Gastrointestinal Disease
• Metabolic Disorders
• Neuromuscular Disease
• Technology Dependent: Oxygen, Tracheostomy, Ventilator, Feeding
• Tubes, Monitors
• Other Complex Disorders and more

A Long-Term Care Ombudsman means "being an advocate for residents."  A Long-Term Care (LTC) Ombudsman listens to and addresses the concerns of nursing home and assisted living residents.  At all times, residents decide on the LTC Ombudsman's level of involvement. They can be counted on to respect residents' privacy and confidentiality. Some of the ways in which LTC Ombudsman serve residents include telling residents about their rights and empowering and supporting residents and their families to discuss concerns with staff.   An LTC Ombudsman completes State-supported training and is certified by the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman.  

Services
An LTC Ombudsman: 

• Advocates for quality of life and quality care
• Explains Resident Rights
• Supports resident directed care
• Helps to ensure residents are treated with dignity
• Identifies and resolves concerns that affect residents

What is Physical Therapy?

Physical Therapy (PT) is an intervention that focuses on helping individuals (in TLC’s case, children) with physical impairments that are impacting their mobility, balance, coordination, quality of movement, or age-appropriate gross motor skills.

Pediatric physical therapists examine and treat children from birth to age 18 for symptoms related to genetic, neurological, and orthopedic conditions. At TLC Kids Therapy, a typical session may include manual techniques to address the limitations of myofascial or soft tissue mobility, positional techniques to facilitate postural alignment, development of gross motor skills such as rolling, crawling, walking, jumping, riding a bike, climbing stairs, climbing stairs, and transitions between positions.

Other common interventions include flexibility training to maximize range of motion, general strength training through everyday play,  and gait training to improve running and walking patterns. Family education is essential to success in physical therapy and a recommended individualized home exercise program will be given to each family to ensure carry over of skilled physical therapy intervention.

Physical therapy commonly collaborates with occupation and speech therapy (if needed) to optimize your child’s success in the home and school environment.

What to look for:

• Abnormal Gait Pattern: Frequent falling and/or stumbling. 
• Hypertonia (High Muscle Tone): Uncontrollable muscle spasms, stiffening, straightening out of muscles. 
• Hypotonia (Low Muscle Tone): Looking “floppy”, being unable to keep up with peers. 
• Delayed Milestones: Is your child delayed in gross motor skills? Read more to find out. 
• Decreased Flexibility/Restrictions in Range-or-Motion: Sports injuries or surgery recuperation. 
• Ligament Laxity: “Double-jointedness”. 
• Asymmetrical Movement Patterns: Able to roll to one side, but not the other
• Poor Posture: Preference for “W-Sitting” or having trouble sitting up straight in chairs. 
• Frequent Loss of Balance 
• Core or Lower Extremity Weakness 
• Lack of Coordination 
• Pain

Accepted Insurance Providers for OT, PT, and Speech Therapy

We are in network with several insurance companies. To verify if our clinic takes your insurance please call 210-490-3900

Our Care Model The MAC’s innovative approach provides comprehensive and coordinated medical and non-medical services under one roof. The MAC seeks to help individuals with disabilities and special needs of all ages find the assistance they need to improve their health and well-being.

MAC Navigation: The MAC’s services use a family-centered approach with full collaboration from the family, MAC Member, and community partners known as MACers (pronounced “MACK-ers”). Click here to learn more.

Ultra-Accessible™ means that everyone has the same opportunity to be included and participate intentionally in their community. An Ultra-Accessible™ community should provide environments for people of all abilities where they are set up for mobility, access, and success.

The MAC Navigators The MAC Care Model™ is centered around addressing Non-Medical Drivers of Health (NMDOH) through team members known as MAC Navigators that serve as single points of contact for the individuals with disabilities and special needs that The MAC serves. Click here for the Navigation Road Map.

Pre-screening on The MAC website or in person determines eligibility to become a MAC member.

(For purposes of The MAC at Morgan’s Wonderland™, people with a “special need” are defined as individuals of all ages with long-term impairment of cognitive, sensory, motor and/or communication functions, either congenital or acquired, that are not readily rehabilitated. Furthermore, a special need substantially limits an individual’s ability to perform activities in the range of what is considered typical for a person of the same age and cultural context. A special need may result in associated social, behavioral, or mental health complexities, requiring specialized intervention by a professional. Populations served by the MAC are the range of conditions that are classified as intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as acquired or congenital physical disabilities.)

The MAC serves individuals of all ages.

ADA Adult & Babies Changing Tables available.

There are no income requirements to receive Navigation services.

Our MAC Members are members as long as they continue receiving services at The MAC.

Each of our MACers (community partners) accepts specific forms of insurance. MAC Navigators are able to connect MAC Members with the correct partner.

Helping Hands is a pre-vocational day habilitation program that serves higher functioning adults with special needs who need a place to grow, develop skills, and establish life-long friendships. Helping Hands offers daily tasks and activities to adults who have intellectual and developmental challenges. Together, we serve our church, our community, and one another.

Helping Hands provides opportunities that bring purpose and dignity to youth and adults who have intellectual and developmental challenges. These opportunities encompass spiritual growth, education, fellowship, service to God and our community.

Each day at Helping Hands is filled with service, fun, and fellowship! Our tasks are geared toward serving others and many of them promote independent livings skills. In addition to our tasks and activities, we eat out at area restaurants and go bowling regularly. Physical activity is also a part of our day.

This program is for higher functioning adults with special needs.

Social Butterfly is here to provide families of children who are in public school, charter school, or homeschool with education, support, and advocacy to meet their educational needs and obtain appropriate services to make progress.

Support includes:

• General Education Services
• Special Education Evaluation Requests
• Annual Review and Dismissal (ARD) Meetings
• IEP Paperwork
• Section 504 Evaluation Requests
• Section 504 Meetings
• Section 504 Plans
• Disciplinary Hearings
• Graduation Plans Transition
• 18+ Post Secondary Services 

Click here to schedule a FREE 30-minute consultation.

Click here for fee information.

Social Butterfly is here to provide services for all families in need of support and guidance when it comes to their child's education, regardless of financial means. Payment plans can be arranged.

Helping Hands is a pre-vocational day habilitation program that serves higher functioning adults with special needs who need a place to grow, develop skills, and establish life-long friendships. Helping Hands offers daily tasks and activities to adults who have intellectual and developmental challenges. Together, we serve our church, our community, and one another.

Helping Hands provides opportunities that bring purpose and dignity to youth and adults who have intellectual and developmental challenges. These opportunities encompass spiritual growth, education, fellowship, service to God and our community.

Each day at Helping Hands is filled with service, fun, and fellowship! Our tasks are geared toward serving others and many of them promote independent livings skills. In addition to our tasks and activities, we eat out at area restaurants and go bowling regularly. Physical activity is also a part of our day.

This program is for higher functioning adults with special needs.