Special Needs

Gentle Barn: Where Horses Talk, Cows Heal and Kids Transform

Gentle Barn: Where Horses Talk, Cows Heal and Kids Transform Meet Sir Lancelot — photo courtesy of GB.It might sound like a scene from the film "The Horse Whisperer," but what went down with a horse named Sir Lancelot at The Gentle Barn, a nonprofit organization that rescues farm animals and uses them to help disabled, special needs, and at-risk youth, in…

Moms Host Golf Tournament To Give Special Needs Children Summer Camp Experience

Moms Host Golf Tournament To Give Special Needs Children Summer Camp Experience Nathan PeddieGoing to summer camp is one of the definitive experiences for Canadian children. But when Dorothy Peddie and Ingrid Anderson, two working moms from the Greater Toronto Area, discovered there was an additional fee to send their sons with Down syndrome to summer…