PPS Early Intervention

02/27/2026

Tag or share with someone who would benefit from our Little Listeners Music Group!

02/24/2026

02/21/2026

Is your preschooler heading to kindergarten this fall?
Help prepare them for school using this booklet it’s filled with resources and activities linked to Pennsylvania's Early Learning Standards. ➡️ https://papromiseforchildren.com/kindergarten-here-i-come/

Haven't registered yet? Check your local school district's information on the 2026-27 school year ➡️ https://papromiseforchildren.com/kindergarten-registration-2/

02/19/2026

02/18/2026

Black History Month is an opportunity to recognize stories that are too often missing from mainstream narratives. Black individuals with disabilities have long contributed to movements for justice, access, and civil rights.

Our “Intersection of Race & Disability” project works to amplify these voices and histories, deepening our understanding of equity, representation, and lived experience.

Explore the stories here: https://www.wpdhac.org/category/race-and-disability/



Photo collage features various people whose stories were collected as part of the “Intersection of Race & Disability” project. From top-left and going clockwise: Marilyn McKinney, Florence Reed, Maurika “Rika” Moore, Milton “Skip” Henderson, and Henry Bell.

02/18/2026

You probably don’t know Olympic gold medalist Elana Meyers Taylor.

But I bet you’ve seen her in the school pick-up line.

She’s the mother crouched on the sidewalk, adjusting a backpack strap across small, anxious shoulders.

She’s the tender hand holding a little one outside the preschool door.

She’s the working mom calculating practice schedules and therapy appointments and to-do lists in her head while smiling like she’s got it all under control.

Elana Meyers Taylor may be an Olympic bobsledding champion—but she’s all of us.

Elana and her husband, Nic (a fellow bobsledder—the two met through the sport) have two young sons, Nico and Noah. Five-year-old Nico was born with Down syndrome and is deaf; three-year-old Noah is also deaf.

This year, they’re experiencing the Olympics together.

After her gold medal run, Elana had to wait while the last competitor—in the lead entering the final run—made her way down the icy track.

When the German crossed the finish line just 0.04 seconds behind her, Elana collapsed in tears.

Seconds later, her boys were in her arms.

The crowd was roaring.

“Mommy won,” she signed in ASL.

Even if you know next to nothing about bobsledding (raising my hand here) you could feel the love that moment held.

At 41, she became the most decorated Black female athlete in Winter Olympics history, with six medals across five Games. She’s also the oldest woman to win Olympic gold in her sport.

Incredible, for sure.

But if you ask her what matters most, I have a feeling it’s not that gold medal around her neck.

It’s the arms wrapped around it.

Just under two weeks ago, Elana posted a photo in Milan—Noah on her hip, Nico in a stroller. “In 16 days, I’ll be back to school drop offs and pick ups, in lines with parents who have no idea who I am or what I did just a week ago,” she captioned the image. “We’ve all worked so hard to get here—and that was half the battle. Who knows what will happen over the next 16 days but I’m excited to find out—and I’m excited that we get to do this together as a family. So here’s to making the next 16 days count!”

You sure did, Elana.

We’ll see you in the pick-up line.

-Her View From Home

-Image, IBSF - International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation

02/18/2026

A popular children's television show is revealing that a key character has a disability.

02/17/2026

The Procedural Safeguards Notice explains the rights of parents and children with disabilities under state and federal education law, including IDEA.

It outlines how schools are required to provide a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) and the procedures that safeguard those rights.

📱 1-800-879-2301
🔗 https://odr-pa.org/parent-resources/procedural-safeguards-notice/