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Welcome to WAPADH!

Founded in 1969, the Whittier Area Parents’ Association for the Developmentally Handicapped (WAPADH) is a private, non-profit organization that supports individuals with a variety of lifelong disabilities including Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Down’s syndrome and related medical and/or behavioral disorders. Our history of achievements is the result of strong community and family support and an organizational culture that continually seeks to remove barriers and change the limiting cultural stereotypes long associated with this population. WAPADH currently serves people in the Southeast Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley and North Orange County areas.

iCommunicate...

To broaden our commitment to communication, WAPADH has launched the iCommunicate Program. It is our goal to expand our Lending Library with a collection of enough iPads, iPod Touch devices, iPhones (with SIM cards) and iTunes gift cards, to every individual that would benefit from a communication device. Click to watch “Shared Paragraph”, a short video on one idea for expanding communication “Shared...

Check out our new content!...

TRACY THRESHER ADVOCATES FOR FC:

NEW SECTION: SYMPOSIUM

iPad Winner!...

    Thank you to everyone who signed up to follow WAPADH’S latest happenings and events by email (through our web page) and/or our Facebook page!  Everyone signed up by May 31, 2010 was entered in a drawing to win an iPad.  The drawing was held June 1, 2010 and the winner is ….. Nivedita Shukla (pictured with her son, Aru)! Congratulations, Nivedita!