For kids with sensory disorders such as autism, Halloween can be a very overwhelming experience for them, but one family has made it a mission for the last five years to provide them with a space w… Halloween is, by nature, a spooky holiday. It is a time when kids put on scary costumes and…
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14-year-old Danica Minter gives her time to charity, working with special needs students
14-year-old Danica Minter, of Halethorpe, is the August 2022 winner of the Chick-fil-A Everyday Heroes award. HALETHORPE, Md. — Danica Minter knows how to land a strike. She’s played softball since she was three, throwing change ups, fastballs and drop balls. But life threw her a big curve ball in 2020 when she was diagnosed with Immune…
‘The owl is like me’: Sandwich mom’s book represents children who have ‘differences’
With big Kickstarter success, a Sandwich mom writes a book explaining to her daughter with rare Moebius Syndrome about differences in children. After Katie Lockwood’s daughter was born with rare Moebius syndrome, the mother simply wanted her Rose to be able to see herself and others like her in a book: “Books are how we learn,…
CHARITY GROUP, CHURCH HOLD PROM FOR STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN VALENCIA
On a hot Southern California night, a cool prom called “A Night to Remember” arrived in Santa Clarita. The free event honors students with special needs between the ages of 14 to 30. “It’s priceless. I just feel that those children are extremely special to all of our hearts and they teach us how we…