Best of All: GiGiFIT Participants!

best of all (noun) \best of all\ is continual, measurable, celebrated and it never ends. It is a daily challenge to do a little better than you did the day before and it’s always celebrated. Possible manifestations: standing just one second longer, reading just one more word, learning just one new number, taking just one…

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Best of All: Paxton and Olivia

Language Music N’ Our Peeps (LMNOP) is an interactive and engaging program designed to guide parents and young children through learning basic sign language and other forms of communication while using music and language-based activities. Recommended for ages pre-natal to 36 months. Like all GiGi’s programs, LMNOP is purposeful and progressive! Starting with infant communication…

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Best of All: Adelaide

This Fall 2023 session of literacy tutoring, Addie has been practicing reading consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. Addie went from sounding out the words at the beginning to reading the words with fluency. We had been practicing with a book for a few weeks and this past week she was able to read the entire book! It…

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Best of All: LMNOP Families

Who is the participant that we are celebrating and which program are they in?  We are celebrating all of our families that attend LMNOP. Each new family joining us is coming in as a new parent to a baby with Down syndrome and not really knowing what to expect, but once they join us in…

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Best of All: Haydan and Charlie

We have noticed so much progress from our GiGiFIT Adult program this summer, that it is hard to choose just one participant to spotlight…so we’re choosing two! Program volunteer, Steve, shared that he has been noticing “how much more confident that both Haydan and Charlie have become from when they began.” Both of these young…

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Best of All: Dance Participants

We have had the opportunity to offer two special dance programs this year, one in January and our most recent program in June. Our Program Leader, Emily, shared of how proud she was of each and every one of the participants who joined us for the program. Not only were there some new participants to…

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Best of All: Mallory

Our GiGi’s Kitchen program leader shared Mallory did an amazing job being independent at GiGi’s Kitchen Kids recently! We made butterfly bags to practice portion control and healthy food choices. Gwyn shared, “She was amazing at being able to separate her snack and put the clothes pin on the snack to look exactly like the…

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Best of All: Speech Participants!

There have been so many Best of All moments to come out of our Amina Grace Speech and Language Program this year, that we couldn’t help but to highlight so many of the accomplishments our friends are making! Read below for some Best of All moments shared by our SLP students this spring. Adilene: Adilene…

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