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Welcome to BIAC’s directory of Connecticut-based community resources, state and national organizations, and publications with important information related to brain injury education, prevention, and recovery. If you need further assistance, please give our helpline a call at 860-219-0291 to connect with a Brain Injury Specialist, or email general@biact.org.
Social & Recreational
Browse social and recreational programs available to Connecticut brain injury survivors, including adaptive sports and arts.
Art for Persons with TBI. Providing a creative outlet through art therapy for kids, teens and adults with traumatic brain injuries. Opportunities for combination with Farm Animal Therapy. Tolland – 860-794-5650
Located in Waterford on the shores of Long Island Sound. It is one of the few state parks in the country dedicated for exclusive use by citizens with disabilities, accompanied by their families and friends. Facilities include cabins, year-round cottages, seasonal tent sites, barnyard animals and horseback riding, picnic pavilions & grills, an accessible playscape, scenic walkway and overlook, bathhouse, beach with boardwalk, gardens, dining hall, lodge, and infirmary. Any Connecticut resident with a disability may obtain a free Camp Harkness Pass.
For pass, information call Sarah Abelli at 203-2945018 or Sarah.Abelli@ct.gov.
For miscellaneous questions, call 860-424-3200.
The majority of state parks provide accessible restroom facilities. Additionally, many of the bathhouse facilities at state campgrounds have an individual, unisex bath addition on the buildings. The unisex bathroom enables a child or an adult to get assistance from any parent or partner. Campgrounds with this amenity include:
Phone: 860-424-3200 (for questions)
Five parks – Hammonasset Beach, Rocky Neck, Sherwood Island, Silver Sands, and Squantz Pond – have beach wheelchairs available for visitors. The chairs are free of charge and are on a ‘first come/first served’ basis.
Phone: 860-424-3200 (for questions)
Hammonasset Beach has six campsites designated for use by individuals with disabilities. The sites are near restroom facilities, have electrical outlets, and can be reserved. To make reservations call Reserve America toll-free at 1-877-668-CAMP (2267) during the following hours:
The Saugatuck Universal Access Trail in Redding is wheelchair accessible. Visitors will be rewarded with views of the Saugatuck Reservoir from the trail’s overlook platform.
List of additional accessible fishing sites.
Phone: 860-424-FISH (3474)
Phone: 860-424-3200 (for questions)
Phone: 860-424-3200 (for questions)
Community Health and Fitness Services include Spokesbender’s Wheelchair basketball, Cruisers Track and Field, Wave Swim Team, and Chargers Wheelchair Soccer Team.
Visit Hospital for Special Care
Phone: 1-860-223-2761 (Hartford)
The American Art Therapy Association provides a listing of qualified art therapists in CT. Art therapy uses art media, the creative process, and the resulting artwork as a therapeutic and healing process.
Phone: 703.998.2020
An established health profession in which music is used within a therapeutic relationship to address the physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals
Visit The American Music Therapy Association
Phone: 301.589.3300
LOF Adaptive Skiers is a place where children, adults, and wounded veterans come to adaptive sports experiences such as waterskiing, wakeboarding, tubing, snow skiing, snowboarding. Lake Zoar in Sandy Hook 203-426-0666
Volunteer recreational group provides adapted sailing opportunities for people with disabilities. Westbrook 860-304-6588
Named after the U.S. Code, Title 42, Chapter 126; giving people with disabilities equal opportunities, is an adaptive recreational sports and fitness center, open to youth, adults, veterans, and seniors with physical disabilities.
Visit Chapter 126 Sports & Fitness
Phone: (860) 243-2869 (Hartford)
CT Jammers Quad Rugby Team, Tennis Team, Alpine Ski Club, Handcycling Club, Discovery Nights, Road Race, Gaylord Golf Hospital Open.
Visit Sports Association of Gaylord Hospital
Phone: Wallingford 203-284-2772
The mission of Achilles International is to enable people with all types of physical and developmental disabilities and medical conditions to participate in mainstream running events in order to promote personal achievement and lower barriers to living an active and fulfilling life. Athletes are paired with a guide to develop individualized training plans, tailored specifically to each athlete’s unique physical capabilities and personal goals. The guide-athlete relationship is important for training and support on race day, and out of this relationship. trust and friendships are built as well. Statewide 203-361-6176
Providing therapeutic riding, year round, through a heated indoor riding arena and two outdoor arenas. Middletown 860-685-0008.
