Box 870395
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0395
phone: (205) 348-4928
fax: (205) 348-3909

TTY: (800) 826-1675
The Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) is part of the nationwide federally mandated protection and advocacy (P&A) system. ADAP's mission is to provide quality, legally-based advocacy services to Alabamians with disabilities in order to protect, promote and expand their rights. ADAP's vision is one of a society where persons with disabilities are valued and exercise self-determination through meaningful choices, and have equality of opportunity.

2200 Second Street, East
Tuscaloosa, AL 35404
phone: (205) 556-2613
fax: (205) 556-2623

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The Head Start/Early Head Start program provides a range of individualized services in the areas of educational and early childhood development; medical, dental, and mental health; nutrition; and parent involvement. In addition, the entire range of Head Start/Early Head Start services is responsive and appropriate to each child’s and family’s developmental, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage and experience.

1110 Sixth Avenue East
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
phone: (205) 759-1279
fax: TTY: (800) 723-0490

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Children’s Rehabilitation Service (CRS) is a statewide organization of skilled professionals providing quality medical, rehabilitative, coordination and support services for children with special health care needs and their families. Every county in Alabama is served through a network of 15 community-based offices. This network provides specialty clinic and other services by physicians, nurses, social workers, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, audiologists, occupational therapists, registered dietitians, secretaries, and administrators.

601 17th Street
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
phone: 205-758-4756
fax: 205-758-7229

CSP of West Alabama partners with UCPWA to provide early intervention services to families of infants and toddlers with developmental needs through service coordination, home intervention and therapy supports. CSP-ei serves the following counties: Bibb, Choctaw, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marengo, Marion, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, Walker, and Winston.

CSP-WA also provides a wide array of services to families and individuals with various needs. Please visit their website for more information on how they can help.

601 -17th Street
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
phone: (205) 752-5429

Community Service Programs of West Alabama (CSP) is a private, nonprofit organization created by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. The agency is funded through the following sources: Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Alabama Department of Transportation Section 18 Rural Transportation, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Block Grant, the Weatherization Block Grant, Rural Development, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Alabama State Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, and contributions from local city and county governments, churches, and private citizens.

The United Way of West Alabama is a community sponsored organization. Its function is to raise funds needed for service at its 28 local member agencies. United Way of West Alabama operates under the direction of a 30-member Board of Directors who represent a cross-section of the West Alabama area population.

Since 1900, The Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama has played an active leadership role in enhancing the economic stability, business climate, and ever-improving quality of life in Tuscaloosa County. Since The Chamber’s birth over a century ago, Tuscaloosa County has grown into a quality, international community of the 21st century.

1002 McFarland Boulevard, Suite K
Northport, AL 35476
phone: (205) 333-1577
fax: (205) 333-2904

Ability Alliance provides case management (service coordination)services to individuals with mental retardation living in Tuscaloosa, Bibb and Pickens Counties.

The System of Choice with a rich heritage since 1871, TCSS has a strong commitment to its students and the future. Its mission is to prepare each student to successfully meet the challenges of living and working in a global society. There is also a commitment to Special Educational needs for all students.

205 E. South Street
Talladega, AL 35160
phone: (256) 761-3206
fax: (256) 761-3344

TTY: (256) 761-3207
Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind is the world's most comprehensive education and rehabilitation system serving children and adults who are deaf, blind and multidisabled.

Children ages 3 to 21 are served through Alabama School for the Deaf, the Alabama School for the Blind and the Helen Keller School of Alabama, accredited residential programs. E.H. Gentry Technical Facility is an accredited two-year technical school for adults who are deaf or blind or who have multiple disabilities.

2501 Hargrove Road East
Tuscaloosa, AL 35405
phone: 205-759-3629
fax: 205-759-3628

Oak Hill School was established in 1979 in order to provide an appropriate education for students with special needs. The facility consists of 14 classrooms, fine arts department, adapted physical education department, heated therapy pool, multi sensory room, and Family and Career Center. It is the desire of the faculty and staff to provide services, strategies and programs to enable all students, regardless of ability, to learn in an educationally sound and safe environment.

600 4th Street East
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
phone: (205) 348-7931
fax: (205) 348-9611

The Rise Program strives to (a) provide family-centered services designed to meet individualized needs of all young children and families; (b) provide a blend of educational therapy services within the context of a developmentally appropriate curriculum; and (c) prepare children for the transition to the next educational environment. The program adheres to the philosophy and recommended practices of both early childhood special education and general early childhood education.

1324 Rice Mine Road
Northport, AL 35476
phone: (205) 342-2660
fax: (205) 345-9547

The Sprayberry Education Center is a special place with extraordinary students, teachers, and staff. Sprayberry houses a variety of programs that serve students in preschool, multiple-needs and abilities, cognitive and developmental delays, gifted (TARGET), and behavioral alternatives. Many of the programs are progressive and unique not only in the Tuscaloosa County Schools, but in the state of Alabama.