Many children with special needs were forced to receive their education through zoom when COVID hit. We knew, that left, those who needed direct support, to fall through the cracks, especially when many parents still had to work. We opened up a school-age classroom for just those children. Dakota is one of the children whose mom reached out to us, desperately seeking help. Dakota has autism and PTSD and struggles with impulse control, attention deficient, and social emotional delays.
Cassie Karriker, Early Intervention Director said, "Seeing children with special needs continue to accomplish their goals, despite the challenges of COVID is so heartwarming. We are so glad we had the specialized staff to help support these vulnerable children".
Since March of 2020, school hasn’t been open, so we have provided all day school age care for Dakota and other special needs kids so that they don’t lose the progress they have made due to the schools being closed. Children with special needs are at a higher risk of falling behind on their goals, because of the specialized instruction they so desperately need. Dakota who has autism, is one of the 10 children we enrolled in our school-aged program during COVID.
