Our Favorite Links
Labradoodle Links
International Labradoodle AssociationThis new international organization has been formed to support the breed development of the labradoodle in addition to promoting global awareness of the labradoodle's unique traits. Summer of Paradise Labradoodles is very proud to have played an active role in the formation of this organization, and currently serves as its Treasurer.
Rutland Manor Breeding and Research Centre The website for Rutland Manor, you will find everything you need to know about the history and care of multigenerational Labradoodles.
doodleDogs This UK breeder is introducing multigenerational Australian labradoodle stock into the United Kingdom.
Rudzhi's Apparition Labradoodles Breeders of multigenerational Australian labradoodles in the Netherlands.
Labradoodle Chit Chat This is one of many wonderful chat pages for current and prospective doodle owners to trade information.
Doodle Lovers' Chat This is another wonderful chat page that is open to breeders, current and prospective owners of labradoodles as well as other poodle crosses.
Disability Links
www.wrightslaw.com As it states on the first page, “Parents, advocates, educators, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, up-to-date information about special education law and advocacy for children with disabilities.”
www.autism-rxguidebook.net Jacquelyn McCandless, MD, is a successful psychiatrist specializing in anti-aging medicine. When her granddaughter slipped away into autism, Dr. McCandless recognized similarities between her granddaughter’s illness and health conditions amongst the aging. Turning her considerable experience and research skills towards autism and related disorders, she wrote Children With Starving Brains: A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder. As stated on the book’s cover, in “the midst of a worldwide epidemic of autism, ADD, and ADHD, this book is a message of hope”.
www.gfcfdiet.com Everything you need to know about implementing a gluten-free and casein-free diet.
www.909shot.com The National Vaccine Information Center. President Barbara Loe Fisher recently complete a 4 year term as the consumer voting member of the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. The NVIC website provides information on a range of vaccination issues, including information on conditions that would delay or contraindicate vaccines for an individual. This website is a must for the informed health consumer.
www.healing-arts.org/children/ A Forum on Alternative and Innovative Therapies for Children with Developmental Disorders, Center for Health & Healing, Beth Isreal Medical Center.
www.nichcy.org National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities. I know the name doesn’t match the initials in the URL - that’s because NICHY recently changed its name! Still a great source of information and referral.
www.safeminds.org Safe Minds shares information about the role of mercury in medicines and in contributing to human disease. It focuses on the hypothesis that there is a link between mercury and neurological disorders such as attention deficit disorder, autism, language delay, and learning difficulties.
www.braintalk.org If you or an individual you are caring for has been given a neurological diagnosis that you have questions about, this is a wonderful place to find support and answers. Offered by Massachusetts General Hospital’s Neurology Department, it’s one of the most comprehensive forums on the web.
EPSDT All individuals with disabilities under the age of 21 who qualify for medicaid (including those who qualify for medicaid on state waiver or deeming programs) are automatically covered by a federal program called EPSDT (Early Periodic, Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment). According to the Federal guidelines, EPSDT must provide any service your child’s physician says is “medically necessary,” from in-home skilled nursing, to various therapy services to assistive devices. This requirement includes services which are not normally paid for under medicaid, and even includes travel and lodging if you must take your child someplace for specialist medical care. If you are not aware of all your child’s rights to medical care under EPSDT, this article, prepared by Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. is a wonderful starting point for your research. Many states include information on EPSDT on their state department of health web sites as well, but since the services are federally mandated, they are really identical from one state to another.
Assistance, Service and Therapy Dog Links
Labradoodle Service Dog Discussion This is a relatively new chat page that is being sponsored by the International Labradoodle Association. It's purpose is to provide a forum for the exchange of information between trainers, breeders, therapists, and individuals with disabilities.
International Association of Assistance Dog Partners This is a wonderful site for learning about the different tasks that can qualify a dog as an assistance dog. The organization has done some fascinating research on ways in which assistance dogs can be qualified for psychiatric support as well.
Therapy Dog Links While this particular page focuses on what distinguishes, in the eyes of the ADA, a therapy dog from an assistance dog, it also contains numerous wonderful links for additional information on the topic.
Hawaii Fi-Do Service Dogs Paradise Labradoodles is excited to announce that we will be working with this Hawaii-based certified service dog trainer on future programs. As we have more information, we’ll be sure to post it on our web page.
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