Mission: Organization is dedicated to supporting families impacted by and raising awareness about childhood apraxia of speech (cas) and other invisible disabilities, (including, but not limited to, sensory processing disorder (spd), anxiety, epilepsy, non-specific learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), dyslexia, autism, tourette's syndrome, and other speech and language disorders. It also provides grants to fund supplemental therapies, treatments, activities, or equipment that will enhance the lives of individual children impacted by cas and other invisible disabilities. The organization seeks to provide information and resources for all families impacted by cas and invisisble disabilities, but focus on funding those in northwest ohio and southeastern michigan. It is made up of parents, grandparents, caregivers and professionals working together to make a difference one family at a time.
Programs: Supported families affected by cas and other invisible disabilities with grants to fund supplemental therapies, treatments, activities, or equipment that will enhance the lives of afflicted individual children. Payments made directly to preapproved treatment providers, assessors or materials vendors. Obtain donations of technology, educational games and materials, and instructional items to be placed directly with afflicted children. The organization has provided area children with apple devices to use for therapy and/or communication, provided therapeutic summer camp, equipment and other activities to more than 416 area children, teachers, therapists and therapy facilities. The organization sponsors activities for suppoted families that allow the children to participate and interact with other children with cas and other invisible disabilities. The events have included family fun day at the toledo zoo, pool day at the wood lane pool, an ice skating event, sylvania playland and pumpkin patch event. . Grants totaling 46,988 were awarded to applicants. The payments were made directly to service providers or material providers for additional therapies, specialty summer camps, and equipment to assist with learning and/or communicating. . In-kind donations totaling 76,671 were made by 243 individuals and businesses. Items donated were used for family fun day activities, other organization events, prizes and raffles. In addition, equipment, games and books were provided directly to impacted children. . 1,130 was donated to be used for family support outings and events.
the organization provided information and resources for any family impacted by cas and other invisible disabilities by providing grants to parents to attend educational conferences. In addition, they connect families with resources, both equipment and informational. In the past, books have been donated to area libraries as a resource for disorders supported by the organization. In addition, they developed, in conjunction with the wood county district library foundation, a collection of resources on a variety of special needs that are available to library patrons across the state of ohio.
