{"id":130086,"date":"2019-10-23T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T19:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/madison\/?p=130086"},"modified":"2019-10-23T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T19:11:33","slug":"i-am-amazing-celebrating-down-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/madison\/i-am-amazing-celebrating-down-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"“I am amazing”: Celebrating Down syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In celebration of Down Syndrome Awareness Month, the adult SMART group was involved in various activities, including the watching of a related video (“More Alike Than Different”), listening to the reading of an article entitled “Down Syndrome Awareness Month & What It Means To Me,” and the discussion about a poem found on Pinterest.<\/p>\n

The final line of Wendy O’Carroll’s poem entitled “Down Syndrome” reads “Having Down syndrome does however mean one thing for certain: I’M AMAZING!” Upon reading this poem aloud, one S.M.A.R.T participant hugged the poster, saying “That is me!!” This was an unexpected reaction that brought tears to the eyes of the onlookers.<\/p>\n

The participants were asked “What makes you special?” Here are some of the responses:<\/p>\n

*Being part of a ‘team,’ like Special Olympics Bowling or SMART.<\/p>\n

*My friends and my family.<\/p>\n

*I’m a star! I am friendly! I love my friends and family…and GiGi’s.<\/p>\n

*I’m a special Queen. I’m a good friend.<\/p>\n

*[I] work hard.<\/p>\n

*It’s my job to make people laugh. I love it!<\/p>\n

The participants of the SMART program at GiGi’s Playhouse – Madison are truly special people.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In celebration of Down Syndrome Awareness Month, the adult SMART group was involved in various activities, including the watching of a related video (“More Alike Than Different”), listening to the reading of an article entitled “Down Syndrome Awareness Month & What It Means To Me,” and the discussion about a poem found on Pinterest. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/madison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/madison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/madison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/madison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/madison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/madison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/madison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/madison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/madison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}