Saturday, September 26, 2009

Mark your calendars

Mark your calendars!
SENSORY SHOWTIME
Friday, October 16 2009
6pm.
Admission is free.
The Community Meeting Room - Lynn Valley Main Library
(located at 1277 Lynn Valley Road)
For additional information, contact Domenica Mastromatteo at 604-961-4275 or dmastromatteo@shaw.ca.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Volunteer Positions

The Following Volunteer Positions are needed for SENSORY SHOWTIME!

Volunteers are Needed to:

  • Post Flyers in Schools, Libraries, Community Centres, Daycares, Medical centres, coffee shops, etc.
  • Email a flyer to everyone on your email list and to any organization that may be interested.
  • Preparing donation envelopes (about 200 envelopes need to be stuffed)
  • Distributing and collecting donation envelopes
  • Solicit sponsors (letter available)
  • solicit parents to share their story (a form will be available on this blog for parents to sign into).
  • tech person to set up projector, screen and audio
  • ushers (usherettes?) to welcome visitors at the event and help them to a seat.
  • collecting donations at the event

Check the blog regularly for upcoming links to flyers, solicitation letter, surveys, and inventory of door prizes!

Thanks!

DOMENICA

dmastromatteo@shaw.ca

Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)

Sensory processing disorder (SPD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects at least one in twenty children. Children with SPD don't process or experience sensory information the way other typical children do; therfore, they don't behave the way other children do. They struggle to perform tasks that come easier for other children. Consequently they suffer a loss of quality in their social, personal, emotional and academic life.

The Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation is dedicated to continue their research into the knowledge and treatment of SPD, so that, as Lucy Jane Miller writes in her book "Sensations Kids", "the millions of sensational children currently "muddling through" daily life will enjoy the same hope and help that research and recognition already have bestowed on coutless other conditions that once baffled science and disrupted lives."