Welcome Back, Maddie

Maddie SAU Intern

Spring 2025 Intern welcome or should we say welcome back?! As Maddie, explains below she’s been here before, and many of you may have worked with or seen her around. If you attended the 2024 SAU Trivia Night which was a community fundraiser for GiGi’s, you had the pleasure of seeing her emcee the event.…

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August 2024 Best of All

Participant Best of All Darrian has a lot to say. Darrian has been participating in our adult group speech group, aka, Coffee Club for over a year.  She tends to be quiet, taking everything in and responding with gestures and whispers. This week Darrian was participating with a voice we could hear! Darrian has been…

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Fall 2024 Programs & Events

GiGi’s is booming with exciting programs and events this fall. Our website calendar is full of the regular programs offered but we wanted to highlight a few new or special events here on the blog. We don’t want you to miss anything! Additional details (times, locations, etc) can be found on our website calendar which…

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July 2024 Best of All

Participant Best of All Lauren ended her summer speech sessions with a bang! Miss Ann tried a new therapy technique and it was phenomenal. She was able to decode what Lauren was saying into words that more people would understand. The #bestofall moment was when Lauren’s eyes lit up because she realized Miss Ann understood…

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March 2024 Best of All

Looking back on March and boy do we feel lucky! 🍀 Participant Best of All This month we’re not highlighting just one person! We’re so proud of all the spring Prep & Achievers participants. They all gave their #bestofall each week. If you missed the 10-day blog series highlighting these programs and participants, be sure…

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Celebrate reading and literacy!

While March is almost over, we wanted to share that March is National Reading Month in honor of Dr. Seuss’s Birthday! What a great reason to celebrate our amazing literacy program! The GiGi’s Playhouse 1:1 Literacy Tutoring Program uses a methodology with documented success based on research by professionals in the field. The ability to read opens doors…

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#10 – Meet the Rockstar Leaders

We’ve made it to day 10 of this rockstar series! Thank you for sticking with us and learning more about the individuals who participated in the spring 2024 GiGi Prep & Achievers programs. We highly encourage you to scroll through the blog if you missed any. Like all programs here at GiGi’s, this program was…

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Rockstar #1 – Meet Riley

As promised in our last blog, we’re here to highlight our spring 2024 GiGi Prep & Achievers participants. Every day for the next 9 days, we’ll introduce an individual. Plus, we’ll hear from the program leaders! Today, we’d like you to meet Riley! Riley is a funny young man who works at Steve’s Mirror and…

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February 2024 Best of All

Every month we recap special happenings, events, and people that inspired us. We refer to these as Best of All moments. The recaps are featured in a report for our board and the national office. We will begin featuring them here on our blog so you can see all the amazing happenings and people who…

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