by Kristy Miller | Dec 16, 2023 | Awareness, Disability, Family, Inclusion
Those of us who work with kiddos in the special needs community understand that Christmas and other holiday bring a different level of concern for some families. They would happily give all the presents in the world for other intangible gifts. Earlier this week I came...
by Kristy Miller | Jun 24, 2023 | Development, Disability
The Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) wants to build and improve programs and services to support young children and their families. The CDEC also wants to make sure children are ready to succeed when they start kindergarten. This survey is designed to help...
by Kristy Miller | Jun 12, 2023 | Advocacy, Awareness, Development, Disability, Family, Physical Therapy
Parents-to-be spend months if not years envisioning what their new family will look like and all the things they will do together. Should the child be born with special needs the parents begin learning about a life that they didn’t know would be theirs. Doctors...
by Kristy Miller | Mar 19, 2023 | ASD, Autism, Camp, Disability, Neurodiversity, Sensory Processing
*This camp is specially designed for campers ages 7 -11 with autism spectrum disorders, sensory processing disorders, developmental disabilities/delays or medical fragility. Campers, their caregiver, and Camp Mentors will skip, boogie, and roll through Cheyenne...
by Kristy Miller | Mar 13, 2023 | 8p, Disability, Family, Inclusion, Sibling
I’d like to begin by recognizing that everyone’s experience with raising a child with special needs is very different – at a minimum there are differing levels of needs, differing capacities in caregivers, and very different family...
by Kristy Miller | Jan 30, 2023 | 8p, Books, Disability, Family
Like Me by Laura Wifler is a wonderfully written book about real life with a child with special needs. My typical kids love reading a story about a home and life that is so similar to theirs – hours spent in waiting rooms, quietly self-entertaining during...
