Posts by jmeyers

Meet Meghan Reistad at our Gala “i have a Voice” on October 25th, 2019 at the Lake Windsor Country Club. We are honored to have Meghan as our MC that evening! Meghan is an early riser as a morning anchor for NBC15. She joined the WMTV team in November 2016 and launched a new newscast…

    Meet our special guest speaker who will talk at our Gala “i have a Voice” on October 25, 2019 at the Lake Windsor Country Club: Dan Coppola! Dan Coppola grew up in Monona, WI – the second of seven kids. From an early age he was hooked on bikes, and by the time I…

The Playhouse, in collaboration with Madison Area Down Syndrome Society (MADSS), and support for program development from GiGi’s, INC. has been piloting a program for families who have loved ones with the dual diagnoses of Down syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder and or sensory/behavioral challenges.  Parents meet separately while participants and siblings are engaged in…

Tara has been volunteering at GiGi’s Playhouse Madison since December. Since then she has become an integral part of our Playhouse. Tara is a senior at UW- Madison studying rehabilitation psychology, with hopes of going to occupational therapy school in the next few years. Tara is a dancer and baton twirler, and recently got certified to…

Thomas (19) has been coming to the Playhouse for about 20 months now. He has been a regular participant at Club GiGi but also Fantastic Friends, TEAM and the adaptive dance class. Thomas is rather shy in class. He loves to be there but usually is very hesitant participating. He is eager to attend the range of…

EG is a five-year-old boy who enjoys coming to GiGi’s to have fun and play. He attends GiGi’s for speech and language services weekly to improve his ability to communicate using lots of different strategies. Each week, EG works on adding sounds to his speech to help a partner understand his words. He also loves…

A mother’s testimonial: My 21 year old son, Steven, has always been very shy and anxious.  Every therapy or group I put him into, he would either refuse to return or would not enjoy.  When we tried GiGi’s SMART and Fantastic Friends programs he does not say “no thank you” or make up an excuse…

Our SMART program leader told the following Best-of-all moment: “One of her older participants had left the group during the opening part of the session to wash her hands. When she returned she realized that he had missed the introduction of the new volunteers. Upon her turn to greet the person next to her, she…

  https://madison.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/bright-ideas-create-an-adaptive-dance-program/article_5f6209e7-35d0-56b0-be4a-150f841f0012.html   Bright Ideas 2019: Create an adaptive dance program From the Bright Ideas 2019: Madisonians offer up their high-wattage thoughts for 2019 series By Abigail Henninger, founder of Magnum Opus Ballet Jan 1, 2019 For the sixth year, Cap Times reporters asked several Madisonians to share their “bright ideas” for the new year. We will…

We are so excited to welcome Kelly Antonson to our board of directors! Kelly had been helping with our social media quite a while, multiplying our Facebook viewers and followers, building Instagram, taking over linked-in as well as twitter. We are so grateful for all her work and dedication and so happy to have her…