Five-year-old Victoria Terrio loves to run around and play like any child her age. The only difference, Victoria has CHARGE syndrome. She was born with her eye retinas not completely formed, a bone blockage in her left nare, retardation of growth and her windpipe attached to her esophagus.
A broken marriage, bankruptcy and the hope there’s something positive around the corner are all things Heidi Penning, Hayden’s mother has to overcome. Heidi’s journey leading up to Hayden receiving Printer hasn’t been an easy one.
Lauren Dora, 10, was diagnosed with autism at age four and is currently enrolled in the ABA/IBI program where she spends 20 hours a week in Intensive Behavioural Intervention therapy.
On Nov. 27, 2007, 12-year-old Hayden Kaack was the recipient of Printer the first ever autism service dog in Kingston, Ont. Printer was given to Hayden through National Service Dogs.
She was a grunt worker in a factory and now holds the title of first-ever international director of the CHARGE Syndrome Foundation. Lisa Weir, the only Canadian sitting on the foundation’s board of director’s talks about how she got started with the foundation…