by Kristy Miller | Jan 29, 2024 | Awareness, Blind, Braille, Reading, Visually Impaired
Braille is a system of reading used by people who are visually impaired. It employs a pattern of raised dots in a “cell” of 3 rows by 2 columns to represent a letter, number, punctuation mark and sometimes even a whole word. Braille alphabet. English...
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 | Oct 19, 2023 | Accessibility, Awareness, Blind, Cerebral Visual Impairment, Community, Cortical Visual Impairment, CVI, Vision, Visually Impaired
October 15th was National White Cane Day. Some people may not realize what this day is all about. Did you know that when you see someone with a white cane it means they are blind? The cane is a tools used for multiple things: to bring awareness to others that someone...
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 6, 2023 | 8p, Advocacy, Awareness, CHARGE, Hydranencephaly, IGF-1R, Joubert Syndrome, Kabuki, Noonan Syndrome, Smith-Kingsmore, Syndrome
February 28th is Rare Disease Day. It is a day that brings awareness to the over 30 million people in the US and over 300 million people worldwide living with a rare disease. A rare disease in the United States is defined as one that affects less than 200,000 people....
by Kristy Miller | Aug 29, 2022 | ASD, Autism, Awareness, Development
This post provides information about what Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may look like in some children and when parents might want to seek more advice in supporting their children. Any time a child receives a diagnosis it changes things. But caregivers need to...
