A variety of programs offered to those with special needs and their families.
Time 2 Play
Stone Soup
Advocacy
Counselling/Support
Kids on the Block was a program presented at local schools to help increase the awareness and acceptance of special needs children in our society.
The Kids on the Block, internationally acclaimed for its educational puppet shows, has developed over 40 different programs addressing various disabilities, educational and medical differences and social concerns. Each topic is thoroughly researched and field-tested before it becomes available to schools, community service organizations, hospitals and special interest groups. A complete curriculum accompanies each topic area including scripts, answers to questions children ask, background information on the topic, character biographies, resource materials, follow-up information, and continued support from the KOB National Office.
Viewing a Kids on the Block performance is an unforgettable educational experience. The “kids” (puppets) vividly and effectively model relationships between people, both with and without disabilities, by using frank and often humorous communication of facts and feeling between the puppet characters and the audience.
The Kids on the Block puppet show gave two presentations on October 8, 2009 at both Gillis School in Tyndall and Beausejour Early Years School in Beausejour. The presentations were very well received.
Someone in your family has exceptional needs - either cognitive, physical, developmental and/or social-emotional challenges. Whether they are an adult or child, funded or not, you have concerns to deal with and input to offer. We would like to hear yours.
Together we can:
We would truly value your input
in discussing how our community can better serve the needs of our exceptional needs citizens.
We want this to be useful, to truly help the lives of our exceptional needs families be the best they can be.
Please join us
for our next meeting:
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Network 4 Change Community Resource Centre
17-31 First Street South (Hew Building)
Beausejour
For more information, or to let us know you’re coming,
please contact Cheryl or Deb (both mothers of children with exceptional needs) @ 268-2506.
Why “Stone Soup”?
There is a very old story of two monks who arrive at a village during a time of great famine. They have been traveling for days and are very hungry. They knock on the doors of the village houses but all the villagers say they don’t have anything to give - that they barely have enough food for themselves.
The young monk sits near the village well and tells the older monk that he thinks they and everyone else in the village will soon starve to death. The older, wise monk begins to build a fire. He asks the younger monk to find some nice round stones and to place them in the pot. Once the stones are found, he puts them in the pot and stirs and fusses over the pot.
The villagers become curious about what the monks are doing. When one bold child finally asks, the old monk says they are cooking “stone soup”, the best, most wonderful soup there is. The villagers want to know how to make soup from nothing so they begin to ask more questions. The old monk mentions that certain ingredients make stone soup taste better - potatoes, carrots, etc. Gradually the villagers begin to offer what they have to add to the soup - a few potatoes from one, some cabbage from another. They find a larger pot, and all the villagers, one by one, add what they have, until finally there is enough for everyone.
All had something to offer and all were able to benefit from it. That was the magic of stone soup.
For School Aged Special Needs Children and their families. A play group designed for families with children of special needs. Equipment and toys are developmentally and designed to stimulate and encourage growth and development in our children while most importantly having FUN!
September 27: Drop In Play at Beausejour Early Years Gym
October 4: Field Trip SWIMMING IN STEINBACH. Meet at BEYS, transportation can be provided
October 18: Drop In Play at BEYS Gym
November 1: Field Trip: Matinee Movie in Winnipeg. Meet at BEYS, transportation can be provided
November 15: Drop In Play at BEYS Gym
November 29: Drop In Play at BEYS Gym
December 13: Field Trip: Lunch and Play at McDonalds & Pictures with Santa at Kildonan Place. Meet at BEYS, transportation can be provided
Please feel free to contact us regarding questions, concerns, suggestions.
The Sensory Room equipment is tailored towards children with special needs - both physical and cognitive delays. This time and place can give them the opportunity to play safely with their siblings or other community children. Parents are invited to stay to play with their children, share the company of other parents with special needs children and relax in an atmosphere of acceptance and understanding.
The kids can play in a safe and stimulating environment, parents can connect for a coffee and conversation and stories of success can be shared.
Children must be accompanied by a parent, grandparent or responsible adult careprovider.
Transportation is covered by program funding; Field Trip Costs are the responsibility of individual families.
Program Partners: