by wemakepixels_9e7mpm | Jun 3, 2026 | Awareness, Disability, Family, Free, Medically Complex, Newsletter, Rare Diseases
Every child has a story worth telling. For families raising children with disabilities, medical complexities, or rare conditions, daily life can hold moments of incredible strength, joy, resilience, humor, and love… moments that often go unseen by the outside...
by wemakepixels_9e7mpm | Oct 17, 2025 | Accessibility, Awareness, Blind, Community, Equipment, Low Vision, Newsletter, Recreation, Vision, Visually Impaired
Pencil, marshmallow, roller ball, and Dakota Disk might not be 4 words you would put together while playing Wordle. Nonetheless, they are all related. The topic of connection would be “types of white cane tips”. For those of you unfamiliar with the term...
by wemakepixels_9e7mpm | Jan 29, 2024 | Awareness, Blind, Braille, Newsletter, 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 wemakepixels_9e7mpm | Dec 16, 2023 | Awareness, Disability, Family, Inclusion, Newsletter
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 wemakepixels_9e7mpm | Oct 19, 2023 | Accessibility, Awareness, Blind, Cerebral Visual Impairment, Community, Cortical Visual Impairment, CVI, Newsletter, 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 wemakepixels_9e7mpm | Jun 12, 2023 | Advocacy, Awareness, Development, Disability, Family, Newsletter, 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...
