Disability Inclusion

The Inclusion Ministry serves and works collaboratively with our parishes and schools to promote the inclusion and meaningful participation of people with disabilities in the life of our Catholic faith community.

Programs

Resources

Parish Resources

Adaptive learning kits for reconciliation, Communion, confirmation

Faith, Family and Children with Special Needs

Faith Formation - Inclusion Ministry

Guide to the Mass for Visual Learners

Handbook for Adaptive Catechesis, Serving Those with Special Needs

How to Welcome, Include, and Catechize Children with Autism and Other Special Needs

Taking the Lift to Heaven: The Pocket Guide to Adaptive Ministry in Your Catholic Parish

Teaching Students with Autism in a Catholic Setting

The Adaptive Teacher, Faith-Based Strategies to Reach and Teach Learners with Disabilities

School Resources

Office of Catholic Schools - Diversified Learners

Inclusion Mentorship Program for increasing Access in Childcare Team (IMPACT)

General Resources

Disability statistics

National Catholic Office for the Deaf

National Catholic Partnership on Disability

The Arc of King County

Xavier Society for the Blind

Advocacy

The Church and Accompaniment

In Conversation Four, Bill Huebsch lists these Hallmarks:

The Parish priest and pastoral team are committed to accompaniment.
The parish team plans for ways to increase accompaniment.
Mercy for people’s life situations is obvious and generous.
Families are accompanied in religious education programs.
Everyone is accompanied through the Sunday Liturgy.
Pastoral care ministries are “accompaniment specialists”.
The “voice” of the parish is consistently companionable.
The parish respects that people gradually become fully faithful.
The parish reaches out beyond its comfort zone.

From: Four Essential Conversations on Becoming The Kind Of Parish The Church needs to Today by Bill Huebsch

Adaptive Catechesis Resources

Help Us Grow Our Ministry

The Archdiocese of Seattle's Disability Inclusion Committee works collaboratively with its parishes and schools to promote the inclusion and meaningful participation of people with disabilities in the life of our Catholic faith community.

The ministry is seeking to understand both the potential breadth of the community as well as the needs within the community so that it can better serve the community and align to its mission.

Click here to learn more and access the survey.