Help us create A Special Space!
Dear Friends,
A Special Space, Inc. is a non-profit therapeutic child care and development center for children with autism, other special needs, and their typically functioning peers. As the first childcare center to design and tailor an environment and program for children with developmental disabilities, the mission of A Special Space is to offer children on the Autism Spectrum and other special needs children the opportunity to participate in before and after school care and summer programs in an environment tailored to their special sensory, social, educational, communicative and recreational needs alongside typically functioning peer models.
We will be opening our doors on August 22, 2012 at Zion Episcopal Church in Charles Town, WV for school-aged children, ages 5 through 12, for before/after school care, school closures and summer programs.
We are in great need of classroom items for A Special Space Center. We would ask that you look for any gently used materials and equipment that your family may no longer be using and allow ours the opportunity to put them to good use. Some of the supplies we need include:
- Crayons
- Washable Markers
- Colored pen
- Regular pencils
- Watercolor paints
- Finger paint
- White drawing paper
- Colored construction paper
- Safety Scissors
- Glue sticks
- Vinyl Club Chairs
- Vinyl Bean Bag Chairs
- Student Desks
- Student Chairs
- Tables
- Folding Chairs
- CD Players with Headphones
- Ipods
- Laptop Computers
- Xbox 360
- Dance/Exercise Games
- Educational CD Games
- Books on CD
- Music
- Legos
- Blocks
- Action Figures
- Dress Ups/Costumes
- Puppets and Small Puppet Theater
- Bookshelves
- Children’s Books (ages 5–12)
- Lamps
- Science equipment/experiment kits
- Board Games/Card Games
- Mulch (in order to make the playground equipment up to code with “fall” area)
If you have any items that we may be able to use, please email us at aspecialspace@aol.com. We will be happy to schedule pick up.
I would like to thank you in advance for your assistance, and we look forward to working with you to create A Special Space!
Best Regards,
Bonnie L. Zampino
President
A Special Space, Inc.
