Best of all moment: “That was fun”
This morning a mother of a 22-year old young woman called me. Her daughter has been going to various social groups and support groups since the age of eight. This month she joined the adult program Fantastic Friends at GiGi's Playhouse Madison. Her mother said: "In those entire years I...
Thank you Ryan Brothers Ambulance Service
Thank you Ryan Brothers Ambulance Service for sponsoring our 2018 Gala "I have a Voice, Hear me Roar!" Tickets for our Gala are now for sale! https://gigisplayhouse.org/madison/gala/
Welcome our newest board member: Julie Kleinheinz Byrnes
Julie Kleinheinz Byrnes is a speech language pathologist with her own private practice. Julie’s specialized training includes a background in early childhood speech and language development, as well as expertise in the multicultural and multilingual aspects of speech language pathology. She has extensive experience providing speech and language assessments and...
Thank you Alliant Energy Foundation!
A big thank you to the Alliant Energy Foundation for awarding us a $2,500 grant in support of our literacy program!
Meet Kate Stingl, new program leader for Saturday Fantastic Friends
Meet Kathryn Stingl, our new program leader for Saturday Fantastic Friends. Kate Stingl graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor’s degree in Rehabilitation Psychology and a master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling. She is a licensed professional counselor and a certified rehabilitation counselor. She has been working with individuals...
We are the next generation of physicians …..
Lauren W. is a medical student at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and a participant in the Community Health Advocacy Project. Her paper is about "Delivery of a Down Syndrome Diagnosis". Thank you, Lauren!! In our training, we are taught that there is a trisomy of the...
Best of all: A moment of tears of amazement
The public school teacher of 9-year old Grace, who is getting literacy one-on-one tutoring at GiGi's Playhouse Madison, wrote the following note to Grace's parents: "I was in tears today due to your daughter. We are working on her state testing and for the writing portion toady, she was...
GiGi’s Madison receives a grant from Alrusa International Inc
Thank you Altrusa International Inc. for awarding GiGi's Playhouse Madison a grant of $1,500 to support our amazing literacy program. Thank you Altrusa International!
… we are redefining what people with Down syndrome can do …
https://www.hngnews.com/monona_cottage_grove/article_85c323f8-1ebe-5d17-8039-d932cdc9922e.html By Cathy Kozlowicz ckozlowicz@hngnews.com hngnews.com Whenever 9-year old Grace Ryan attends a social function, people point to her, wave and enthusiastically say, “That’s Grace!” She wants to give everyone a hug when she leaves school. When she was recently sick for a week, her entire fourth-grade class...
First, do no harm
https://themighty.com/2018/02/doctors-delivering-down-syndrome-diagnosis/ Dabbing her eyes with a tissue, my friend repeated the rhetorical question posed by the geneticist, “I don’t expect my dumb dog to come in from the rain, what do you expect this child to do?” referring to my friend’s unborn daughter he had just diagnosed with Down syndrome. Just...
Our little Lady with Down syndrome…..
My name is Michelle and amongst other things, I am a mother to three children; one of which was born with an extra chromosome. We began our journey here at Gigi’s Playhouse shortly after we moved to the Madison area in October of 2016. We have been blessed enough to...
