by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | Feb 28, 2017 | Families, Special Needs Ministry
Last month you heard my (hopefully) graced-filled reasons for declining the opportunity to head up a special needs ministry in my church. But parent to a child(ren) with special needs: YOU ARE NOT OFF THE HOOK! And neither are others in the church. There are things...
by Barb Dittrich | Feb 27, 2017 | Special Needs Parenting
In a world of noise, begging for your attention, it always seems the largest, loudest, neediest population wins our focus. For example, with the growing statistics on the pervasiveness of autism over the years, why would we, in the special needs community, want to...
by Jolene Philo | Feb 27, 2017 | Special Needs Parenting
These days, we’re living cheek by jowl at our house.Four adults.One very, very active toddler.One dog.In the dead of winter.For six weeks. We’re all crammed together in the first floor of a ranch house with less than half the square footage of our previous...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Feb 27, 2017 | Advocacy, Inclusion, Key Ministry
Photo credit: Canton Repository A couple of years ago, I introduced our readers to “Downtown Nate” Manko. Nate is a young man who plays the drums in the praise band at Martindale Christian Fellowship in Canton, OH, where his father (Steve) serves as...
by Sarah Broady | Feb 24, 2017 | Autism, Special Needs Parenting
My son, Sam, always best handles instructions or requests of him if he feels he has a good, solid understanding of what’s going on. Not just the nuts and bolts of the situation, but most importantly, the reason for it. If we ask or tell him to do something,...
