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This is a group for people with disabilities, their family and friends. Sometimes it can be hard to meet others with disabilites. Hopefully we can meet each other and have a fun group.
Ready....Set....Go TEAM! Get your 2012 Step Up for Down Syndrome Walk Team Registered! Come and learn how to set up a team, team fundraising tips and get energized for our upcoming walk!
Meet people from around the world interested in working in distributed teams, Agile, Scrum, and Lean project management. Though we are based in North Carolina, we save travel time by meeting online using multiple tools so we can welcome members from across the globe. Our goal is to provide access to the best content regardless of the speakers location in a format that is more engaging than a webinar. Also, working virtually opens doors for many people with disabilities and their caregivers. We …
Meet other local Ballroom Dancers! This is not just a group, but events that will last a lifetime. All proceeds go to help students with Aspbergers, Autism, Specific Learning Disabilities and ADHD! Each month we will travel to and experience a different dance studio, different dancers and different studio styles and owners as we taste thier particular venues. We will try to include as many of the dance studio communities located near Raleigh, NC as possible. We plan on having 1 meet …
… Our service projects include: support of the Civitan Cottage at Boys & Girls Home at Lake Waccamaw, support of the Duke Child Development Center and the Civitan International Research Center (both organizations do research into physical and mental disabilities that children have), Hilltop Home (for severely handicapped children), various projects for US troops overseas, adopting families at Thanksgiving and Christmas, Project Night Night (for children living in shelters), buying and filling book …
Anyone can go to the gym. Those who want the best results work with a personal trainer. Modern Approach Dating Education is a personal trainer for people who want to find the romantic partner(s) they’ve been looking for. MADE's mission is to give intelligent, successful, motivated people like you the tools to create, attract and keep the relationship that you desire. No matter how bright you are, no matter how old you are, no matter how much you know yourself, you still have blind spots. We all …
The is a support group for parents of kids with "invisible" special needs that impact behavior, emotion, and family function. Based on the blog and Facebook page for the book _Easy to Love but Hard to Raise_, we offer commiseration, support, and been-there-done-that help for parents of kids with ADHD, ODD, OCD, PDD, FASD, SPD, and any number of other alphabet soup diagnoses that take the already difficult job of parenting and adds to the challenge.
We gather to discuss books that are variously called psychological memoir, first person accounts, or autobiography about the experience of suffering from mental illness. Our scope is broad, including addiction, developmental disabilities, and family dysfunction. Our selections are intended as accurate representations of human experience and must be a well written work of literature. Our name is of course a reference to Marcel Proust, even though many would dispute that he should be classified as …
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