Life Enrichment Awards Program (LEAP)

Educates parents, youth, and the community about the laws governing public education, specifically for children with disabilities. AJE seeks to empower youth and parents to be effective advocates and youth to self-advocate to ensure that children receive an appropriate education.

Maximizes the potential of children while supporting families and individuals with disabilities so that they may thrive in the community. A full-service organization with multiple programs that together provide an integrated and innovative learning environment for children of all ages and abilities.

Visit the Arc of Loudon website

Provides service and education locally and on a state level, as well as, information and referral, special needs trust programs, self-advocacy empowerment opportunities, and special events. Distributes weekly updates for families, professionals and individuals living in the cities and counties of Alexandria, Arlington and Fairfax.

Visit the Arc of Northern Virginia website

Membership organization that offers a lifetime of support, understanding, and opportunities for people with developmental disabilities and their families by providing support through a variety of programs and services that match each person’s or family’s individual needs.

Visit the Arc of Prince George’s County website

The Co-op fills a unique community need in DC by working with teachers, school leaders, and across charter schools to improve educational services for students with disabilities.

DC Special Education Cooperative Website

Promotes an independent living philosophy and equal access for all persons regardless of disability. Utilizes consumer control and peer-to-peer relationships to empower people with physical, mental, cognitive and sensory disabilities to direct their own lives. 

Visit the ENDependence Center of Northern Virginia, Inc. website

Prepares informed and skilled leaders through innovative teaching and learning practices that enhance and enrich theory, policy and practice by engaging in scholarly inquiry and research; promote equity, diversity and inclusion reflective of changing societies; create public and private partnerships; and advocate continuous self-examination and critical analysis. 

Visit the George Washington University Graduate School of Education & Human Development website

A non-sectarian, non-public special education day school with an integrated approach to learning that includes educational programs and therapeutic services for more than 200 students, ages four through 21, whose disabilities include developmental delays, speech/language deficits, learning disabilities, health impairment, and autism/PDD. 

Visite the Ivymount School, Inc. website

High school program utilizing a multi-sensory, developmental and language-intensive curriculum tailored to students in grades nine through 12, with language and learning disabilities and/or autism that requires minimal or no special assistance.

Visit the Katherine Thomas School Treatment and Learning Centers website

Empowers a diverse population of under-resourced youth to achieve a successful transition to adulthood, through multi-cultural, comprehensive and innovative programs that address social, academic and career needs. 

Visit the Latin American Youth Center website

Established by the Marriott Foundation to develop and support mutually beneficial job placements to meet the workforce needs of local employers and the vocational goals of young people with disabilities.

Marriott Foundation – Bridges from School to Work Website

Montgomery College is a multi-campus institution that serves nearly 60,000 students a year, through both credit and noncredit programs, in more than 100 areas of study. The Graduate Transition Program is custom-tailored to help developmentally disabled students transition to greater independent living through developmentally appropriate educational employment training and life-skill services.

Visit the Montgomery College – Graduate Transition Program website

Serves hundreds of individuals with developmental differences, their families and involved professionals through therapeutic, recreational, social and respite care programs for teens and adults, as well as information about community resources for families. 

Visit the Potomac Community Resources, Inc. website