Recreational Programs and Camps

For all persons with disabilities

• Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability (ALACD)
  
  The Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability (ALACD) is an organization that promotes, supports and enables Canadians with disabilities to lead active, healthy lives.
• Best Buddies
  
  A national charitiable organization dedicated to enhancing our community through one-to-one friendships between people with intellectual disabilities and students. Students and Buddies meet together every two weeks and make weekly phone calls to each other. Chapters are formed at school or on campus. Must belong to an agency whose clients have an intellectual disability or be a student in highschool, university or college.
  
  Address: 2333 Dundas Street West, Suite 404
  Toronto, ON M6R 3A6
  Intersection: Dundas Street and Bloor Street
  Phone: (416) 531-0003
  Phone: (416) 531-1235
  Toll Free: 1-888-779-0061
  Fax: (416) 531-0325
  Email: info@bestbuddies.ca 
• Community Association for Riding for the Disabled (CARD)
  
  To improve the lives of children and adults with disabilities through quality therapeutic riding programs.
• Get Active Now
  
  Get Active Now is a dynamic, forward-thinking charity focused on improving the lives of Ontarians in our communities with disabilities. We inspire, encourage and support all Ontarians of all abilities to Get Active Now by providing information and practical tools on healthy living, with particular focus on recreation, sports and physical fitness. We are committed to making a difference in the lives of Ontarians with a disability, and their communities, by promoting healthy active living through Get Active Now.
  
• L'AMOREAUX TENNIS CENTRE
  
  300 Silver Springs Blvd. Scarborough ON M1V 2S4 (416) 396 4041   Recreational Wheelchair Tennis Developmental Sessions   Who: Bridging the Gap (OWSA)  
  
  What: Wheelchair Tennis   When: Monday Evenings 7-9
  Where: L'Amoreaux Tennis Centre  
  Why: Learn new skills and have fun
  Free of Charge
  Registration Required
  Wheelchair Loan Program
  
  For more information or to register please contact:  Michelle Champagne, Program Coordinator.
• Ontario Wheelchair Sports Association (416) 426-7131 mchampagne@ontwheelchairsports.org
• Variety Village
  
  Variety Village is a leading authority on integrated active living opportunities in fitness and sports for people of varied ages and abilities.

Blind or Visually Impaired

• Canadian Blind Sports Association
  7 Mill St., Lower Level
  P.O. Box 1574
  Almonte ON
  K0A 1A0
  Phone:613-256-7792
  Fax:613-256-8759
  E-mail: cbsa@istar.ca
• Ontario Visually Impaired Golfers Association
  1109 Upper Village Dr.
  Mississauga ON
  L5E 3H9
  Phone:905-274-3527
• Trailblazers Tandem Cycling Club
  496 Glebeholme Blvd.
  Toronto ON
  M4C 1V2
  Phone:416-424-3384

Deaf, Deafened or Hard of Hearing

• Canadian Deaf Ice Hockey Federation
  1650 Lewes Way
  Mississauga ON
  L4W 3L2
  Phone:905-624-7494
  Fax:905-624-6770
  E-mail: rhysen@onramp.ca
• Canadian Deaf Sports Association
  303 - 1600 James Naismith Dr.
  Gloucester ON
  K1B 5N4
  Phone:613-748-5789
  Fax:613-748-5706
• Hornets Hockey Club of the Deaf
  102 - 120 Sheppard
  Ave. E. Toronto, ON M2N 3A4
• Ontario Deaf Sports Association, Inc.
  219 Carlton Street
  Toronto, Ontario
  M5A 2L2
  Phone: 416-413-0299
• Ontario Camp of the Deaf:
  Phone 416-449-9651
  Voice 416-449-2728
• Ottawa Deaf Dart Club
  6A Sonnet Cr.
  Nepean ON
  K2H 8W6
  Phone:613-820-1321

Learning Disabilities

• Integra: Camp Towhee
  
  A three-week residential therapeutic program for children and adolescents with learning disabilities and related psychosocial difficulties.
  
  Contact: Judy Schutt, Intake Worker
  Eligibility: Ages 10-18 with diagnosed learning disability
  Address: 25 Imperial Street Toronto, ON M5P 1B9
  Phone:(416) 486-8055
  Email: info@integra.on.ca
• Camp Kodiak
  4069 Pheasant Run Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, L5L 2C2
  Phone: (905) 569-7595
  Toll Free (877) 569-7595
  Fax (905) 569-6045
  Email: info@campkodiak.com
  Website: http://www.campkodiak.com/

Physical Disabilities

• Adapted Scuba Association
  
  Suite 123
  650 Dupont Street
  Toronto, ON M6G 1Z2 ( telephone: (416) 534 2527
• Canadian Electric Wheelchair Hockey Association (CEWHA).
  
  Canadian Electric Wheelchair Hockey Association (CEWHA). The CEWHA is a nationwide, volunteer-based hockey league for youth and adults with disabilities, where games are played in a regular season. The mission of the CEWHA is "to provide a quality hockey program for all persons with disabilities who have limited upper body strength and/or mobility, who could significantly benefit from the use of an electric wheelchair in competitive sport."
• Curling
• Easter Seal Society of Ontario - York Region
  
  Dedicated to helping children, youth and young adults with physical disabilities achieve their full Individual potential and future independence. Easter Seals funds disability solutions through financial assistance, summer camp, the Recreational Choices funding program, research, advocacy, and public and consumer education.
  Address:Box 1668 Holland Landing, ON L9N 1P6
  Phone: (905) 898-2828
  Toll Free: 1-866-473-2048
  Fax: (905) 898-2121
  Email: info@easterseals.org
  Fencing
  416-495-1029
• The Toronto Fencing Club is offering beginner's course in wheelchair fencing
• Skiing (snow) Canadian Association for Disabled Skiing