Special Olympics and ESPN Announce the Top 5 Unified Champion Schools for 2020

Special Olympics and ESPN Announce the Top 5 Unified Champion Schools for 2020

After announcing all 36 Honor Roll Unified Champion Schools earlier this month, ESPN and Special Olympics recently announced the Top 5 Unified Champion Schools for 2020. Delaware: Postlethwait Middle School Iowa: Theodore Roosevelt High School Minnesota: University of Minnesota Twin…

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How to Build Walk Assist Bars For Your Baby

How to Build Walk Assist Bars For Your Baby

After seeing parallel bars used for young children to assist them in walking, PVC seemed like a good option. There were no resources we found with plans for making them for Mara. But we used a few pictures we found and relied on the advice of our friend and therapist Kailee @themovementmama to determine the height of the bars to make this for Mara.

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How to Build a Crawling Track For Your Baby

How to Build a Crawling Track For Your Baby

The following are the instructions for the crawling track that we made for our infant daughter. Her progress was immediate and striking. Mara started at three months. If we had to do it again she would have started the day she came home from the hospital. It is that valuable.

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Having My Daughter With Down Syndrome Is Not Brave

Having My Daughter With Down Syndrome Is Not Brave

It had been just a few days since I heard the numbing words “your baby has Down syndrome” when I received a message from a close family member that said: “I am very proud of you for choosing to have your baby. You are really brave”. I was still processing my feelings. In no way was I in a good place as I read those words.

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Allison Norlian: Love Made Her a Voice for the Voiceless

Allison Norlian: Love Made Her a Voice for the Voiceless

My driving force behind everything I do is my sister, Rebecca. Becky is my older sister. She is severely disabled. Yes, she had challenges, and yes, she was different, but she was a living, breathing, beautiful human who deserved the same love and respect that any of us do.

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