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Abilis Gift Shop: Your Source for a Unique Assortment of Handmade Holiday Items

If you haven’t been to the Abilis Gift Shop in a while – or if you’ve never been before – there are several reasons to make the Abilis gift shop a destination for your holiday shopping. Abilis Gifts is a retail-store training site where adults with special needs work toward community-based jobs in sales and production. For this reason, much of the selection is handmade and unique. Purchases make a difference for those who make the items and work in the shop, and the prices

Another benefit is that the prices are incredibly reasonable, typically below what you’d expect to pay retail. The shop has recently been freshened up and has a new layout. Continue Reading →

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Abilis Speaker Series: Holidays & Changing Routines: Using Visuals and Social Stories to Help Your Child Cope

Therapeutic & Family Advisory Services Speaker Series - Greenwich Free Press

Hear from the Abilis Board Certified Behavior Analysts and Special Education teachers, Jillian Alli, Georgy Hennig, and Meaghan Nagurney, about how to use visuals, social stories, and other environmental supports to help your child manage an exciting, but sometimes overwhelming, season. Continue Reading →

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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Training: Interacting with individuals in emergency situations

Participants will learn how to prepare for an emergency involving a person with ASD, How to identify characteristics and behaviors of a person with ASD, How to effectively communicate with a person with ASD, Discuss special tactics, rescue techniques and care, Fire and Life Safety Education and safety drills. Continue Reading →

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What to Do In Greenwich Weekend of Oct 15-16, 2016?

This weekend is packed with activities in Greenwich including GHS Homecoming Parade, the Old Greenwich School Pumpkin Patch, Green & Clean’s Townwide cleanup, the Abilis Walk and Inaugural Run, Sound Beach Fire Dept open house, GHS Sports Hall of Fame induction, and the OGRCC Sailboat Regatta in Binney Pond. Continue Reading →

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5th Annual Golf for Abilis to be Held at Trump National Golf Club

For the 5th year Fred Trump will host the Golf for Abilis tournament at Trump National Golf Club. Trump, an advocate for individuals with special needs has his own personal connection with Abilis. His youngest child, 17-year- old William, had a severe seizure disorder as an infant. William was later diagnosed with cerebral palsy and received early intervention therapy from Abilis as a toddler. Continue Reading →

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11th Annual Walk for Abilis / Inaugural 5.K Run Will Take Place at Greenwich Point

The Walk/Run is a family-friendly event designed for individuals of all ages an abilities. It includes a wheelchair and stroller accessible one-mile route, children’ activities, including a bouncy tent and fire truck, plus a variety of local foo vendors. Registration will start at 7:30 a.m., the 5K run and children’s activities a 9:00 a.m., followed by the 1-mile walk at 10:30 a.m. Continue Reading →

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