👍 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 second Saturday of the month, and that's a great Saturday for our families: sensory-friendly mornings at 2 museums, and free admission at 2 more. And dinosaurs have taken over the fairgrounds through Sunday, so if your child roars at breakfast, this is the weekend for it. As always, Shake-A-Leg has...
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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 news carried the week. Scientists released the largest map of autism ever built, the nation's biggest school district pressed pause on AI in its classrooms, and $46 million in new funding went to autism research. Slow weeks get 1 story like that. This week got all 3, plus 8 more. The podcast: Dr. Erika...
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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 waterpark in Doral marks Labor Day Monday with a buy one, get one admission deal, so bring a towel. After that the calendar settles into its school-year rhythm and saves its best material for the weekend. The 2nd Saturday of the month is when the free museum mornings stack up, and this one lands inside our...
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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 Labor Day weekend and the standing programs are all running strong. Better still, it's the first weekend of the month, which means the free museum deals kick in: the railroad museum next to the zoo is free for everyone on Saturday, and a Bank of America card gets you into more museums free all weekend...
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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 🦩 September starts with 4 new Florida laws that change how schools serve our children, from seizure training to a 10-day notice when an IEP service goes missing, and most parents have never heard of any of them. Somebody has to read the laws, and it might as well be a dad who's already up at 5am anyway. The rest...
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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 1st week of the month is my favorite stretch on the Miami calendar, because that's when the free stuff clusters. Museums drop their admission, the Home Depot hands your child a free project, and the places that are usually loud turn the lights and the noise down. This past Saturday was the county's...
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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 🦩 Every parent I know spends the school week saying the same THING in different rooms: not on the walls, not on the sofa, and put down the slime. This weekend the Miami Children's Museum takes the opposite position - bubble foam, slime, frozen paint popsicles on a mural, and the only rule is bring a towel and a...
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👍 Facebook: Join the Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Hub for local events, resources, and ongoing support ♿ Miami-Dade Disability & Autism Newsletter 🧩 Every special needs parent I know has the same question. It shows up at 2am, after IEP meetings, at family parties: what happens after we're gone? I have it too. Today's podcast episode asks it out loud, in an honest conversation about it, and the encouraging part is that the answer starts long before anyone is gone. It starts with a plan, and...
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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 🦩 Week 2 of the school year and Miami is already asking about next year. The big schools fair that kicks off admissions season just went on the calendar, and if you've ever spent a fall making 20 phone calls to 20 schools you'll know why one room with all of them in it is a gift. Closer to home, the week has my...
21 days ago • 10 min read