Additional Needs News for the week of November 11 – 15, 2019
Click here for Curated Resources & Tools for those with Additional Needs & their Families. Search by Diagnoses, Resource Catgory, or Location. These businesses are taking special-needs employees from Disability to ThisAbility, one hire at a time by Ronnie Polaneczky, Updated: November 13, 2019 Companies Need to Do More for Employees and Customers with Disabilities By Julia Taylor and KennedyPooja […]
2019 Nature Art Contest
2019 Nature Art Contest It’s time to send in your nature themed artwork! Announcing the 1st Annual Art Contest for children and adults with additional needs living in Collier and Lee County. We are now accepting registrations for Artists, Voters and Sponsors. This contest will help bring public awareness to the talents and abilities of those with additional needs. […]
How love started a company
Additional Needs, Inc. all started with one question to a friend, “Do you know of a place or an activity I can volunteer for?” The answer, “yes” started me on my additional needs journey. I started to volunteer for Art Fest Naples which benefited individuals with autism and their families that received services from Eden […]
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Out of the blue this morning, our son came up to me and said, “Daddy, take a picture with me.” This was a first for our son requesting his picture to be taken. It warmed not only my heart but his mom’s heart as well. The reason ANI is sharing this is because we want […]
My Transition from Dan Marino to STARability
I went to the Dan Marino 10-Month program from August 28, 2017, to my graduation on June 28, 2018. The program I chose to do was called the Microsoft Office Specialist track. I received my national certification in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook. I lived with my life coach, Kris, in Miami, where I worked […]
“What you need to know about the McKay Scholarship” via Easterseals Academy Naples, Florida
The McKay scholarship is one of the main scholarships in Florida that affords many students with additional needs and their families the opportunity to make educational choices. Because of this scholarship, eligible students can attend a public school outside of their “home zone” or a private school. There is a great deal of information at Florida Department […]
Samuel, Imagine
I would like to describe an opportunity I had over 20 years ago to make a real life impact on a person that had some mental and related physical struggles since birth. This young man had a profound impact on me then and now, years later. We’ll call my neighbor friend John and his son […]
Learn about our featured artist Hannah Kandel
Hannah Rose Kandel’s mother had a very typical and happy pregnancy. At nine months of age, her parents started to see some warning signs of possible hearing loss or autism. Her father is a neurologist and her mother has her master’s degree in Special Education. Hannah had the BAER (Brain Auditory Evoke Response) test done […]
2018 Naples Art Fest
[su_row][su_column size=”1/2″][/su_column][su_column size=”1/2″][/su_column][/su_row] The 21st Annual Art Fest Naples was a success thanks to all our sponsors, volunteers, artists and the patrons that came out to support individuals with additional needs. [su_spacer] The Title Sponsorship of the Neurology Office of Joseph Kandel, M.D. & Associates is made in honor of The Foundation For The Developmentally […]
First Release of the Additional Needs Website
Pardon our “digital-dust” while we work to create a valuable resource for communities and individuals across the United States. The founder of ANI believed, “if you wait for everything to be perfect, you’ll never get started.” We aren’t rushing into this, rather getting things started and out in the open. This unconventional way of web […]