Arizona Community Living NOW, a new program designed and administered by the Sonoran UCEDD and supported by grant funds from the Developmental Disabilities Planning Council (DDPC), addresses the important issue of how to give families the information they need to create affordable and accessible community living situations for themselves and their family members with developmental [...]
By Damien’s mother, Samantha
My son Damien will be nine on May 9, 2011. He is a compassionate, loving, and smart boy who also loves animals. He just so happens to also have:
PDD-NOS (pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified, form of autism)
Tourette Syndrome (motor and vocal tic disorder)
Dysgraphia (neurological disorder dealing with the function of writing)
Generalized anxiety
Obsessive [...]
As I visited with a neighbor this morning, some bright pink/purple blossoms caught my eye. Ah! Strawberry hedgehog cactus blossoms: one of my favorites. It doesn’t matter whether I find them in the desert proper or in the neighborhood. They are amazing. Regal.
Above is one example. There will be more.
Yesterday, little Pekingese Mark Clemens, Ruthann’s beloved pet, died. “I will miss this boy so much. He was my comfort when my world did not go as I would have liked it to…I miss the teasing when he would not give me a kiss and would give them to others,” said Ruthann when she let [...]
By River’s mother
River is a happy, active, and very social four-year-old boy. People who see him would never guess that he suffers from Dravet Syndrome, a catastrophic form of epilepsy. River has had many seizures in his young life, beginning at the age of 6 months. His seizures have lasted anywhere between 10 minutes to [...]
Every boy dreams of getting a dog, but for seven-year-old Benjamin Hillen, this dream has become a necessity. The problems started in 2003 at his birth: Ben would choke on milk, stop breathing and spend every night screaming in pain. Both his doctors and parents were mystified, and it took 14 long months for the [...]
By Coty’s mother
Our son, Coty Michael Hines was born May 8, 2000. We adopted him through a local adoption agency and were aware of his medical issues from the beginning. We met him when he was 24 hours old and brought him home from the hospital when he was six days old.
Coty’s birth mother had [...]
Bellingham, Washington has an amazing poetry contest in honor of my maternal grandmother, Sue C. Boynton. Here is one of the 2010 winners, Luke Reinschmidt, presenting his work, “I Remember.”
I’d like to encourage families and individuals with disabilities to attend the next session on MARCH 14 from 2 PM to 4 PM at sites in Yuma, Phoenix, Flagstaff, Sierra Vista and Tucson. Please see the information below for the next training session.
Arizona Community Living NOW, a new program designed and [...]
