World Down Syndrome Day 2021

In recognition of Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) your monthly gift directly supports our mission to provide Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy Grants for our Special and Determined Children.

Your $50 gift directly supports our mission to provide Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy Grants for our Special and Determined Children.

Your $100 gift provides ONE Therapy Session for one week for our Special and Determined Children.

Your $321 gift provides THREE Therapy Sessions for our Special and Determined Children.

Fundraisers

Your generous support provides ONE child with a life-improving Physical Therapy Grant for once a week for an entire year!

Your generous support provides TWO life-improving grants to cover a child's Physical and/or Occupational therapy once a week for an entire year!

Your generous support provides THREE life-improving grants to cover a child's Physical, Occupational and/or Speech therapy once a week for an entire year!

Your generous support provides SIX life-improving grants to cover a child's Physical, Occupational and/or Spech therapy once a week for an entire year!

Special and Determined

We are dedicated to helping families of young children, ages 3-6 years of age with Down syndrome by providing financial assistance to access the necessary therapeutic services to grow and thrive!

Special & Determined started out as a blog. Motivated by the love for her son, Marla shared their life as a family caring for a child with Down syndrome. 

"All things are possible when you believe. We learned that the day our son was born." 

Their belief that their son was capable of many things with the right support, fueled their desire to get him all the therapies they could, so he could reach his fullest potential.

It is a range of services and supports that are available to infants and young children with developmental delays or disabilities, up to the age of 3 that is provided by each state.

When a child ages out of Early Intervention services at 3 years old, they then move to the public school system. But if a child is not ready to attend school, or is not getting enough services from the school, parents look towards supplemental therapies from private therapists, which may or may not be covered under their private insurance company.

For example, speech therapy is not covered under private insurance because of the developmental delay diagnosis?

 Many policies limit the total number of sessions. For patients covered by health insurance, typical out-of-pocket costs consist of coinsurance of 10%-50%.

For patients not covered by health insurance, speech therapy typically costs $200-$250 for an initial assessment, then about $100 to almost $250 per hour. To make any kind of an impact for a child with Down syndrome, speech therapy in some form will probably be needed for years.

Provide families of children ages 3-6 years old with Down syndrome, the financial assistance they need for their child to access the necessary therapeutic services to help them grow and thrive after they have exhausted all means to get it covered through insurance or state programs.

Special and Determined is asking the community to support our mission and these amazing families. Every child has the right to therapeutic services without financial hardship!