A Note From the Site Manager
Happy New Year GiGi’s Southern Tier Family! It is so exciting for me to get to start off the New Year here at GiGi’s Southern Tier. Since November when I was on-boarded the Playhouse, I have gotten to meet so many wonderful families, caretakers, participants, and volunteers. There is nothing...
Top 5 Christmas Ideas for Gross Motor Play!
Check out this week's TOP 5 Christmas Gift Recommendations from one of our GiGi's Playhouse professionals! This week, we tapped into one of our GiGiFIT instructors, who is certified as a Health and Wellness Coach, Sports Nutrition, Advanced Youth Training and Conditioning, and an Advanced Personal Trainer...just to name a...
Christmas Gift Ideas to Promote Speech and Language
With Christmas quickly approaching, we reached out to our Playhouse Speech and Language Pathologist to get their recommendations for some great gift ideas to help promote language! Mr. Potato Head: This is a great toy that is so motivating for a lot of kiddos and helps develop receptive language skills...
Meet our SLPs: Kara and Dara!
Meet Kara! Kara Nunn M.S. CCC-SLP, a clinical instructor in the department of Speech-Language Pathology at Binghamton University, teaching and supervising graduate and undergraduate students. Throughout her 17 years of clinical practice, Ms. Nunn’s clinical experience encompasses early intervention and pre-school, private practice, public schools, and post-21 transitioning. She has...
New Year, New Beginnings!
We are so excited to be adding 1-on-1 Math Tutoring in February, thanks to funding from The Decker Foundation! Our Math Tutoring program is built based on the ways in which individuals with Down syndrome learn best. Knowing that our participants vary greatly in their abilities and challenges in comprehensive...
Meet Our Math Coordinators!
Along with the addition of this new programming, we are thrilled to introduce two previous volunteers, who will be stepping into the Math Coordinator roles. Meet Caitlyn! My name is Caitlyn Ruggiero. I am from Cortland, NY and I graduated from Binghamton University in Spring 2020. I was a psychology...
Showing Our Appreciation
Gratitude Committee Update We look for creative ways to make thank you cards for the community and volunteers who has helped us. We as a committee get together twice a month to give and spread thanks. We want to focus on giving back to our community and show our appreciation....
Back-To-School 2020 Style!
Tips for Back-To-School in 2020 With the school year fast approaching, it’s time to start thinking about what a Covid-19 start to the school year will look like for our children, especially for our children with Down syndrome. As we quickly enter the unchartered waters of the start of the...
COVID Can’t Stop Us!!
Hello friends! We hope you are doing well during these trying times; we have missed seeing you all at the Playhouse! While it seems as though most of the world has been on a hiatus since COVID hit, GiGi’s has been more bustling than ever by offering a slew of...
Meet Jessica!
We are excited to welcome our first intern at GiGi's Playhouse Southern Tier! "Hello! My name is Jessica Aurelio, I am a Binghamton native and am currently in my third year of my Masters of Social Work program at Binghamton University. I am excited to be a new addition to...
We Need YOU!!
We are looking for creative ways to continue to support our families and community. Just because we are not able to open our doors, does NOT mean the need for support and programming no longer exists. Now, more than ever, our families continue to need support, encouragement and the sense...