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Parkland Buddy Sports… Providing organized peer to peer sports programming for children and young adults with special needs

By Wendy Hunter, photos courtesy of Ken Webster Photography Can you imagine a childhood without a single friend? Children with disabilities are 65% more likely to experience bullying than children without.  Parkland Buddy Sports (PBS) promotes friendship, and inclusion not just on the sports fields, but in everyday life because every child matters. We hear …

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Parkland Buddy Sports…The Unique Challenges of 2020

By Wendy Hunter and Ken Webster Covid has presented some unique challenges for our Parkland Buddy Sports community of players, volunteers, coaches, board members and extended families. It’s impossible to prepare kids for everything that’s going to be different through these times so parents have had to explain physical distancing, wearing masks, and why frequent …

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