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Meet Our Ambassadors!

Each year, KidsAbility Foundation selects honourary Kids Can’t Wait Ambassadors to represent the thousands of children that we serve in Waterloo Region and Wellington County. Ambassadors and their families share their stories of hope and their personal journeys inspiring our community to make a difference. 

 


Kitchener-Waterloo - Graydon 

 

You gave...and because of that, Graydon gave too. He gave back his wheelchair.

Through your faithful donations and support, kids like Graydon are being empowered to realize their dreams and, as a result, Graydon and his family donated his wheelchair to help other kids because he doesn’t need it anymore.

Graydon’s parents, Deirdre and Peter, brought him to KidsAbility when he was 18-months-old. He was not able to sit-up on his own or crawl. A wheelchair soon became a fixture in Graydon’s life.

Over the years, Graydon benefitted from physiotherapy, occupational and speech therapies. He has been
involved in the ECE program, the school program as well as numerous camps and sports activities. He knows
how important KidsAbility is and what it means to kids like him.

Graydon’s congenital Muscular Dystrophy has meant that being able to walk and talk would not be easy tasks. However, your support has meant quality and truly life-changing therapy and support services to allow him to break free of his wheelchair and take steps--on his own--to a life of independence.



Cambridge - Carly
 

"We didn’t know what KidsAbility was or that it even existed--we hadn’t needed it."

Since they had two healthy young girls at home, KidsAbility was not an organization that was on this young family’s radar. When Sandra and Jamie, along with their two older daughters, Hazel and Lauren, welcomed Carly into their lives, KidsAbility became, as they describe it: essential.

One of the biggest challenges for children with Down syndrome is finding effective methods of helping each individual child to learn, develop and grow in a way that is going to make personal sense. Carly has been benefitting from therapy at KidsAbility since she was only a few months old. Early intervention has played a very key role in the development of this bubbly 15-month-old little girl. She is quick to smile and wave at anyone she meets. She loves to stand too, a skill that she has worked very hard on thanks to the therapy she receives at KidsAbility. Your support allows Carly to receive the care she deserves in her own community.



Guelph-Wellington - Lauren

She’s fearless. Climbing over chairs, jumping on her trampoline and chasing after her brother are all things that Lauren loves to do. She delights in every moment and is working very hard with the therapists at KidsAbility to be able to keep up with kids her age. Right now, she simply can’t.

Noonan Syndrome is a genetic condition that affects physical and sometimes cognitive development. Lauren has quite a list of personal characteristics. She looks a bit different and her heart has defects. Her growth is slow, her muscles have low tone and her joints are overly flexible. She has digestive issues, hearing problems, skeletal deformities, the potential for significant heart failure later on and lacks the stamina to keep up with kids her age. These complications, and more, are tied to Noonan Syndrome.

Lauren learned how to walk. She has learned how to pedal her bike--and her family is grateful for the freedom and independence that she has gained through the many services she has benefitted from at KidsAbility. Lauren is happy to be a child who gets to do the same things that her older brother Roman gets to. This is what it is all about. It’s about helping every child to live the best and most fulfilling life possible.

 

 

 
 
 
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