The Fox Valley Sibling Support Network (FVSSN) is very excited to announce the 2011-2012 Sibshops for children ages 6-12 who have siblings with special needs. Read all about it here…
Some interesting research being done on Autism and families…. “A total of 18.7% of the infants developed ASD. Infant gender and the presence of >1 older affected sibling were significant predictors of ASD outcome, and there was an almost threefold increase in risk for male subjects and an additional twofold increase in risk if there…
An interesting story about siblings from a parents perspective… “She belongs to an elite group….this daughter of ours. Kaia is an older sibling to a child with special needs. Those siblings make up an elite group. At least in my eyes. She sometimes goes without because of Blake’s disability, without much complaining. She carries a…
Family services can help families who have children with special needs stay together, and Easter Seals DuPage and the Fox Valley Region will be able to continue to provide those services thanks to a $22,788 grant given by the Amicus Foundation. The grant will fund continued support services for parents and siblings of children with…
From the author of “Riding the Bus with My Sister” and our friend, Rachel Simon… It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply…