New Hampshire State Disability Resources (continued)

Disability-Specific Organizations

Attention Deficit Disorder
To identify an ADD group in your state or locality, contact either:

Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)
8181 Professional Place, Suite 150
Landover, MD 20785
(301) 306-7070
(800) 233-4050 (Voice mail to request information packet)
Web: www.chadd.org

Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA)
P.O. Box 543
Pottstown, PA 19464-0543
(484) 945-2101
Web: www.add.org

Autism
Michelle Jarvis, President
Autism Society of New Hampshire
P.O. Box 68
Concord, NH 03302-0068
(603) 679-2424
E-mail: info@nhautism.com
Web: www.nhautism.com

Blind/Visual Impairments
Jaclyn Packer, Ph.D., Director of Information Center
American Foundation for the Blind
11 Penn Plaza, Suite 300
New York, NY 10001
(212) 502-7600; (800) 232-5463
E-mail: afbinfo@afb.net
Web: www.afb.org

Brain Injury
Steven D. Wade, Executive Director
Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire
109 N. State Street, Suite 2
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 225-8400; (800) 773-8400 (in NH only)
E-mail: mail@bianh.org
Web: www.bianh.org

Children with Special Health Care Needs
Terry Ohlson-Martin and Martha-Jean Madison, Co-Directors
New Hampshire Family Voices
93 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 271-4525; (800) 852-3345, ext. 4525
E-mail: nhfv@yahoo.com
Web: www.nhfv.org

Deafness/Hard of Hearing
Susan Wolf-Downes, Executive Director
Northeast Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services, Inc. (NDHHS)
57 Regional Drive
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 224-1850; (800) 492-0407
(866) 634-4764 (TTY)
E-mail: info@ndhhs.org
Web: www.ndhhs.org

Learning Disabilities
Beth McClure, President
New Hampshire Branch of the International Dyslexia Association
P.O. Box 3724
Concord, NH 03302-3724
(603) 229-7355
E-mail: information@nhida.org
Web: www.nhida.org

Carol Schapira, President
The Learning Disabilities Association of New Hampshire
P.O. Box 127
Concord, NH 03302-0127
E-mail: information@ldanh.org
Web: www.ldanh.org

Mental Health
Kathleen Abate, Executive Director
Granite State Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
c/o ACS
340 Commercial Street, 2nd Floor
Manchester, NH 03101
(603) 785-7948
E-mail: gsffcmh@aol.com

Michael Cohen, Executive Director
NAMI New Hampshire
(National Alliance on Mental Illness New Hampshire)
15 Green Street
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 225-5359; (800) 242-6264 (in NH)
E-mail: info@naminh.org
Web: www.naminh.org

Speech, Language, and Hearing
Amy Tyson, President
New Hampshire Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 1538
Concord, NH 03302-1538
(603) 228-5949
E-mail: nhslha@aol.com

Spinal Cord Injury
Lisa M. Thompson, CPA, President, New Hampshire Chapter
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
54 Wentworth Avenue
Londonderry, NH 03053
(603) 479-0560
Web: www.nhspinal.org

Tourette Syndrome
Maine/New Hampshire Chapter of the Tourette Syndrome Association
(207) 428-3040; (877) 368-9800
E-mail: info@tsa-maine.org
Web: www.tsa-maine.org

Organizations Especially for Parents

Parent Training and Information Center (PTI)
Heather Thalheimer, Executive Director
Parent Information Center (PIC)
P.O. Box 2405
Concord, NH 03302-2405
(603) 224-7005 (V/TTY); (800) 947-7005 (In NH)
E-mail: picinfo@parentinformationcenter.org
Web: www.parentinformationcenter.org
Web: www.picnh.org

Parent-To-Parent
Philip Eller, Coordinator
Parent to Parent
P.O. Box 622
Hanover, NH 03755-0622
(603) 448-6393; (800) 698-5465 (In NH and VT, only)
E-mail: p2pnh@valley.net
Web: www.p2pnh.org

Partners in Policymaking
Mary Schuh, Ph.D., Program Director
Institute on Disability/UCE
University of New Hampshire, The Concord Center
56 Old Suncook Road, Suite 2
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 228-2084
E-mail: mary.schuh@unh.edu
Web: www.iod.unh.edu/

Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
Barbara Moseley, President
New Hampshire PTA
47 Kendall Hill Road
Mont Vernon, NH 03057
(603) 673-7555; (877) 701-4PTA
E-mail: nhpta1@aol.com
Web: www.nhpta1.org/