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Posts Tagged ‘play’ When my son was born he was very ‘floppy’ – the medical term is hypotonia, basically its low mucle tone. He had baby physiotherapy and we used to do exercises at home with him. Then, when his sister came a long and she was about two years old, we bought them a [...]  March 27th, 2011 |  Tags: equipment, play |  Categories: Health & Wellbeing, Leisure & Sport |  One comment I recently received the following email via the contact form: I thought you may be interested in learning that CVS Caremark launched a Facebook page for its philanthropic program All Kids Can, a five-year, $25 million commitment aimed at making life easier for children with disabilities. We hope you will check it out [...] This is another organisation I came across when perusing the BBC’s Thrillseeker website (see my post on the Calvert Trust). Mountain House Holidays offer a range of walking and adventure activity holidays and breaks for people of all ages and abilities. Their aim is “to provide you with a holiday to remember whatever [...] August 12th, 2010 | Tags: play, respite | Categories: Leisure & Sport, Societies & Associations | Leave a comment Its funny how you can stunble across things as you bumble through life. I was half watching CountryFile as I prepared dinner yesterday. At they end of the programme there was a trailer for something called Thrillseeker and the website address was flashed up. Wondering what this was about and whether or not [...] August 9th, 2010 | Tags: carers, play, respite | Categories: Leisure & Sport, Societies & Associations | Leave a comment Living as we do in Farnham this group is obviously local to us. At Christmas time we often get a flyer in my son’s school bag promoting their Christmas party. The group aims to provide a meeting place and support group for other parents and carers of special needs children. The group also [...] Fledglings is a registered charity I came across when looking at the links section of the website for the special needs school my son attends (check out this entry on ICT and special needs submitted by the IT manager from the school). Fledglings aims to help parents and carers of a [...] July 30th, 2010 | Tags: play | Categories: Development & Education, Information Services | Leave a comment I was just looking at the website for my son’s scool (check out this entry on ICT and special needs submitted by the IT manager from the school) to see what new links had gone up. In there is an entry for our local Sure Start centre at Potter’s Gate ( a [...] July 30th, 2010 | Tags: carers, play, support groups | Categories: Caring & Carers, Societies & Associations | Leave a comment I first wrote an entry on Disability Challengers for a previous version of this website. And, once again, I was reminded of the fantastic resource we have right here on our Farnham doorstep only the other day following a family day out to Bocketts Farm near Leatherhead where a group from Disability Challengers was also [...] One of the things my boy loves to do is dance. We’re all sick of “High School Musical” and “Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” in our household. All of us that is, except for one person who can often be found dancing and singing along to the DVDs or CDs. So it [...] March 21st, 2010 | Tags: dance, down's syndrome, play | Categories: Leisure & Sport | Leave a comment A mother of a 21 one year old lad (at the time of writing) who happens to have Down’s Syndrome has passed me details of the Brighton and Hove Albion’s Disabilities Football Project. Seagulls Specials Seagulls Specials gives children of all ages and abilities opportunities to play football. But the club, part of Brighton [...] |
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