Special Religious Education
These links may help you to learn how the Church understands its mission to persons with disabilities.
National Catholic Office for the Deaf: helps spread God's message through the support of the deaf and hard of hearing so that we may all be one in Christ. They have a quarterly newsletter and sacramental programs that are signed and closed captioned.
National Catholic Partnership on Disabilities: works collaboratively to ensure meaningful participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of the life of the Church and society.
Network of Inclusive Catholic Educators: resources.
Parish Annual Pre-Program Checklist for Disability Ministry: a readiness checklist for disablilty inclusion in your religious education program.
Pastoral Statement of U.S. Catholic Bishops on People with Disabilities (November 16, 1978)
Religious Formation for Persons with Special Needs: Catechetical Office guidelines to helping persons with special needs in their religious formation.
Special Religious Education Myth Busters: What do you know about special religious education?
SPRED – Special Religious Development: a network of sevices designed to assist persons with developmental disabilities and or learning problems to become integrated into parish assemblies of worship through the process of education in faith. Spred services are provided through the leadership of the Special Religious Development Agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.
Welcome and Justice is a statement of the US Catholic Bishops on a framework of access and inclusion for persons with disabilities.
