Resources
Find resources for people with cognitive disabilities, their families, and caregivers. Start with Georgia services, explore national organizations, or use a practical tool to prepare for your next step.
State agencies, waiver services, assistive technology, employment support, and metro Atlanta transportation.
Jump to sectionFederal agencies and established national organizations that explain disabilities and connect families to local help.
Jump to sectionPrintable pages for meetings, calls, support profiles, and visual routines. No account needed.
Open toolsSearch in everyday words — “IEP”, “job support”, “transportation”, “caregiver”, or “brain injury”.
12 resources listed.
Start close to home
State agencies and Georgia organizations that handle waivers, family support, assistive technology, employment, and transportation. Eligibility, waiting lists, and costs change, so always confirm details on the provider’s own page.
Learn where to start when applying for Georgia’s NOW and COMP Medicaid waiver services for eligible people with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Explore Georgia’s family support program and find the agency’s instructions for contacting a provider.
Search a statewide directory for disability and special health care resources. Confirm provider details directly.
Explore assistive technology, including tools for communication and daily routines, and learn about device loans.
Explore employment support and find out how to apply for vocational rehabilitation services.
Find information about MARTA’s paratransit service and fares.
Beyond Georgia
Federal agencies and established national organizations that explain disabilities, explain rights and accommodations, and help families find local help.
Search by location to find organizations and resources that support independent living.
Read an overview of developmental disabilities, with links to more information for families.
Find developmental milestone tools and information to help families prepare for conversations about a child’s development.
Find your state’s Parent Center for help navigating special education and participating in school decisions.
Explore workplace accommodation guidance and tools for discussing job needs.
Read the NIH booklet on traumatic brain injury.
Practical tips and tools
Foundation-created toolsShort pages with blank space to write in. Print them and bring them with you. Nothing is uploaded or submitted, and you can adapt any of them to fit your family.
Get your main concern, three questions, what has already helped, and who follows up onto one page before you walk in.
Open this toolKeep a simple record of who you called, what they said, and when to check back so nothing gets lost.
Open this toolA short page about the person, written in their own voice, for anyone who supports them.
Open this toolA simple Now / Next / Done board with room for a picture or symbol at each step.
Open this toolSend us the organization, its web address, and a sentence about who it helps. Every listing is checked by a person before it is published.
Suggest a ResourceThese listings are for information only. The Foundation does not provide clinical care, diagnose conditions, or endorse a specific provider. Links go to the organization responsible for the information, and each listing shows the date it was last reviewed.