Jeremiah's Ranch

Jeremiah’s Ranch nonprofit has dissolved.
Thank you for your past support.

Special Olympics Bowling begins Tuesday, June 25, at Temecula Lanes. Contact Linda White (760) 805-5214 if interested.

Today is a state hearing in San Diego - living with Developmental Disabilities 5:30 PM
June 20, 2019 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm
4760 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego CA 92117
SDGE Energy Innovation Center
San Diego: Living with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Hearing
ON INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
CA STATE ASSEMBLY SELECT COMMITTEE

Families and providers are invited to attend and inform the California Legislature on how San Diego and the surrounding areas service the needs of those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

1. Welcome & Opening Remarks: 5 Minutes
Committee Chair Jim Frazier, Assemblymembers Shirley Weber and Brian Maienschein
2. San Diego Regional Center (SDRC): 15 Minutes
Carlos Flores, Executive Director
3. San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD): 15 Minutes
Cindy Marten, Superintendent
4. Providers: 15 Minutes
Edward Hershey – Home of Guiding Hands
Dave Carruci - United Cerebral Palsy, San Diego
Art Santos – Arc Imperial Valley
5. Self-Advocates : 15 Minutes
Kim Rucker – SDRC Client
Susan Madison – Family Member and Board Member of SCDD
Terri Colachis – Parent and former Chair of ARCA Board
6. State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD): 10 Minutes
Mary Ellen Stives, San Diego/Imperial Regional Manager
7. Public Comment 70 Minutes
8. Conclusion

Non-speaking Diego Pena was in San Diego earlier this month presenting at Mozart & The Mind. When he was 9 years old he wrote a bestseller about

Nine-year old non-speaking boy writes bestseller book about autism for educators, parents, and students  "I would advise teachers to treat their students humanely regardless of their beliefs about disabilities," Diego Pena, Age 9 By Debra Muzikar A coup

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1st Egyptian with Down syndrome as speaker of United Nations Affairs This comes in response to the directives of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to support and empower those with special abilities in Egypt.

Save the date! Join Jeremiah's Ranch for a picnic June 29 at Live Oak Park. Wear comfortable clothes!

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Diana would be proud! Goddaughter with Down's gets first job at 24 Domenica Lawson, who has Down's syndrome, has been working at the Pavilion Gardens Cafe in Brighton since securing a job last month.

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Entire school learns sign language to support deaf kindergartner As soon as the staff at a Maine school learned a 6-year-old deaf girl would be a student, they decided to welcome her by teaching all the students American Sign Language.