Computer Technologies Program The Bridge to a Career
Through the Looking Glass (TLG), a nationally-recognized center for families with disabilities, is offering a new free program, called Chatterbox, for parents with learning difficulties or intellectual disabilities and their young children. TLG describes the program this way: Chatterbox is a parent-child interactional therapeutic play/care group designed to give parents with intellectual disabilities or learning difficulties the tools to encourage language skills …
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Since 1974, Computer Technologies Program has provided over one million hours of training and support for thousands of people with disabilities taking steps toward their career goals. We work hand-in-hand with the Department of Rehabilitation so there is no cost for our program’s participants and they have access to a wide range of support services.
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