By Kai’s Parents
Our three year old and wonderfully vivacious little boy, Kai, hopes to receive a service dog from 4 Paws for Ability. Kai was officially diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in April of 2011. However, we have been well aware almost since his conception that Kai was a unique individual.
Even during pregnancy, we were [...]
By Lisette Tackitt
Carter James Tackitt is a six-year-old who has lived with autism most of his life. He has been diagnosed with autism, has delayed speech, incoherent babbling, stemming/arm flapping, and lack of eye contact.
Carter’s Autism has been very isolating. He has no sense of danger: escaping/wandering off, restless sleep, breaks household and [...]
By Nicole DeZarn
The DeZarn family needs your help to get a service dog. We have four children, one biological child and three children we adopted from foster care. All three have special needs. Our service dog will be trained to help all three of these children.
When we started the process of searching for an agency [...]
Two mothers of special needs children founded this remarkable nonprofit agency to help families by raising money for adaptive equipment not covered by health insurance.
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By Angela Ward
Margaret Ward was born in January, 2002. She turned 10 years old in January of 2012. We discovered that Maggie had medical issues at birth. She spent 5 weeks in the NICU with breathing and eating issues. She was given a G-Tube and afterwards I was trained on how [...]
By Patty Caudle
I have a seven-year-old son, Joshua Caudle with severe Autism and ADHD. I learned that there was something wrong with my son when he was just a couple of months old. He didn’t smile or respond to any stimulation. I took him in to the doctors but it wasn’t until he was [...]
By Carter’s mother, Cristy Barr
When our son, Carter Paul Scott, was 13 months old, he went into respiratory arrest, and was on a vent for five days. Then in August 2010 Carter suffered a severe developmental and behavioral regression where the following began taking place:
Began tip toe walking.
Lost all eye contact.
Began spinning.
Lost all sense [...]
By Tamara Wood
Alex was born in November of 2006, our first little boy. He was born healthy and continued developing exactly as he should. Physically he was right on track, he actually started walking at 9 months and hasn’t stopped moving since! However, as he got older we started having concerns about his development in [...]
By Kristy Noonan
Keilan Scott Noonan was born January, 2000. At six month of age, the pediatrician sent us to a specialist because Keilan’s head wasn’t growing. We were living in Naples, FL and went to Miami Children’s Hospital.
At that time, we thought his only medical issue was just microcephaly with developmental delays. Currently the [...]
