Provides a safe place online to develop one-to-one friendships between people with and without IDD. By joining e-Buddies, participants become more comfortable using technology to communicate with friends, gain computer literacy skills, and are better equipped to socialize online in the future.

Fosters one-to-one friendships between middle/high school students with and without IDD, in which they share interests, experiences, and activities. Students with IDD are often isolated and left out of social activities. Special Buddies Middle/High Schools helps to create an inclusive middle/high school culture for all students early on in their educational development.

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Special Buddies Friendship programs represent one of our organization’s four key mission pillars. These programs build one-to-one friendships between people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), offering social interactions while improving the quality of life and level of inclusion for a population that is often isolated and excluded. Through their participation, people with IDD form meaningful connections with their peers, gain self-confidence and self-esteem, and share interests, experiences and activities that