👍 Facebook: Join the Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Hub for local events, resources, and ongoing support ♿ Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Newsletter 🧩 Good morning, my fellow Miamians 🦩 If you made it to Key Biscayne this past Saturday, you already know: the Inclusion & Disability Symposium was an amazing day for everyone who came, and the de Moya Foundation gala that evening was just as good. Now to the week ahead, which starts with civics and ends with fairies. The county talks Ludlam Trail...
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👍 Facebook: Join the Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Hub for local events, resources, and ongoing support ♿ Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Newsletter 🧩 Good morning, my fellow Miamians 🦩 October opens with the kind of Saturday this newsletter exists for: a full-day symposium on Key Biscayne for families raising children with disabilities, covering everything from early intervention to planning for adulthood. The rest of the weekend keeps it easy: the railroad museum next to the zoo is free for...
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👍 Facebook: Join the Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Hub for local events, resources, and ongoing support ♿ Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Newsletter 🧩 Good morning, my fellow Miamians 🦩 Florida's new school laws bring autism-specific training to teachers, and a family got their brother back safe after nearly 2 weeks. Here at home, Adaptive Beach Day put beachgoers with disabilities on the sand and in the surf at Miami Beach. On the podcast: what fathers of children with Down syndrome worry...
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👍 Facebook: Join the Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Hub for local events, resources, and ongoing support ♿ Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Newsletter 🧩 Good morning, my fellow Miamians 🦩 The Arc of South Florida opens its Beyond Barriers online auction today, and you have until Friday night to bid on getaways, experiences, and gift cards from wherever you happen to be sitting. Then the calendar flips to October and the first weekend arrives loaded: a full day Symposium on Key Biscayne for...
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👍 Facebook: Join the Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Hub for local events, resources, and ongoing support ♿ Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Newsletter 🧩 Good morning, my fellow Miamians 🦩 MOCA spends Friday celebrating its 30th birthday, and everyone's invited: free admission, interactive art for every age, and live music. After dark, Fairchild opens its gates for a walk beneath the full moon, and on Saturday night the Harvest Moon gets a bonfire of its own at Fruit & Spice Park in Homestead....
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👍 Facebook: Join the Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Hub for local events, resources, and ongoing support ♿ Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Newsletter 🧩 Good morning, my fellow Miamians 🦩 The Autism Care Today grant window is open now and runs through October 15. It's up to $5,000 per family for treatment and services insurance won't cover, and the application is straightforward. If cost has kept your child from a therapy or a piece of safety equipment, this is the month to apply. On the...
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👍 Facebook: Join the Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Hub for local events, resources, and ongoing support ♿ Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Newsletter 🧩 Good morning, my fellow Miamians 🦩 FIU opens today with 2 days on turning disability research into real change, and MDCPS has a Transition Services parent series running monthly through May for families with a middle or high schooler on an IEP. If adulthood planning has been sitting on your list, this is the season it starts moving. Then the...
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👍 Facebook: Join the Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Hub for local events, resources, and ongoing support ♿ Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Newsletter 🧩 Good morning, my fellow Miamians 🦩 Fall arrives in Miami, and it starts Friday night: the children's museum is free from 3-8pm, and the pumpkin patches in the Redland are opening their gates. Saturday is the 3rd Saturday of the month, when the free family days stack up from downtown to the Gables, with a sensory-friendly morning at Frost...
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👍 Facebook: Join the Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Hub for local events, resources, and ongoing support ♿ Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Newsletter 🧩 Good morning, my fellow Miamians 🦩 Love on the Spectrum picked up 3 more Emmys this month, and Zion became the first national park in the country to own an all-terrain wheelchair for public use. One is a television award and the other is a piece of equipment in Utah, but they point the same direction: the world keeps making more room. On the...
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