👍 Facebook: Join the Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Hub for local events, resources, and ongoing support Good morning, my fellow Miamians 🦩 This week brings the story of how states decided whose life was worth saving in a crisis and a look at how the new Trump Accounts can cost a child their benefits. The one I’d start with is the ventilator piece, because the rules it describes were written years before anyone was looking. On the new podcast episode, I sit down with Dr. Eglee of STARS Autism...
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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 🦩 I spent the weekend in Orlando at the first session of Partners in Policymaking, the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council’s advocacy training program. Six-sessions, teaching us how disability policy gets made and how families like ours can help shape it. I’ll share what I learn here as I go. 👉 The first...
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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 🦩 Halloween takes over the whole weekend, with trick-or-treat nights in nearly every corner of the County and the calm sensory mornings holding their usual spots. My pick is Saturday’s Bill Baggs Haunted Hike on Key Biscayne, where a Superhero Hour opens the gates to kids with unique abilities before everyone...
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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 🦩 This week’s news runs from heroic to hopeful, a couple of studies, some local headlines, and a few benefit numbers worth writing down. If you read one thing first, make it the Homestead officer who went into the pond after a boy with autism, the one where the boy makes it home. On the new episode, Sandra...
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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 🦩 Halloween season settles in gently this week, and the calendar fills up as the weekend gets closer. If I’m picking one, it’s Friday’s free Spooky Symphony at the Moss Center, the only haunted house in Miami where everyone gets a seat. Bring a cafecito for the drive down to Cutler Bay; this dad plans...
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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 🦩 It’s the free 3rd weekend of the month: free museums from Friday night through Sunday, and Halloween arriving 2 weeks early. My pick is Saturday’s free Fall Spooktacular in downtown Homestead, 5pm to 9pm, where the scariest part is finding parking on Krome Avenue. The hayride is one of the few rides everyone...
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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 🦩 In today's newsletter, the FDA just cleared the first digital tool to help diagnose autism in children as young as 16 months, and Florida’s autism-treatment task force is moving toward its final recommendations. Two decisions, one at the federal level and one here at home that shape how early our families get...
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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 is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and Miami took the assignment. Paratransit riders get a public meeting with the county on Tuesday, Miami Lighthouse takes over Calle Ocho on Thursday for White Cane Day, and that same afternoon employers in Dadeland sit down over lunch to learn how to...
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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 🦩 Those photos are from CasaCuba in South Miami, where this past Thursday several politicians and Grant Miller of Miami's Community Newspapers announced their support for making the flamingo Florida's state bird. Flamingos were almost driven to extinction, and now they're making a comeback. The bird that greets...
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