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Final Fifty!!

  Our goal for this project has always been to photograph 100 faces of SPD!  We are about half way there.  Our newest goal is to get this final fifty faces by the end of summer!  We want all the faces photographed by the end of summer so we can get an exhibit ready for [… Read More]

Meet Zane

When Zane was born he was a happy healthy boy. We were young, but very educated parents. We researched everything we could possibly think of and interviewed pediatricians until we felt we found the one for us. So when Zane was 18 months old and I thought something might be going on with him, I [… Read More]

Volunteers Needed!!!

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference? Are you a  student in need of community service hours? Are you an SPD parent, family member or service provider?  We are looking to grow this project and need help in marketing, fundraising, online research, organizing exhibits, and more. We need your unique talents to [… Read More]

Faces of SPD ~ Meet Luke

    This is Luke who was diagnosed with SPD at age 4. At that time, Luke’s world was one where he retreated. This little guy did things in a rushed and restless manner. His mind, body and emotions all seemed to interact in an unsettling way. He spent those preschool years (adorable for many, [… Read More]

31 in 31 ~ Raising Awareness for Sensational Faces!

At the time this is being drafted, there are 11 days left until the start of National Sensory Awareness Month!! We are working on some events locally and out of state for the month of October.  If these plans go off as hoped, these will be major steps for raising awareness for SPD!!!  Please stay [… Read More]

National Sensory Awareness Month – Sensational Faces

As many of you know (well those in the SPD community at least), October is National Sensory Awareness Month.  During this time, many of the support groups out there do a variety of SPD awareness events to help advocate and create much needed awareness for the disorder!  There are some fun things happening too!  Last [… Read More]

State of Faces Address

Ok gang… here is a state of the faces address!  Just wanted to give you an update as to where we are at with the project… Finally, I took some time and sat down and compiled some data.  We added some new faces into the “pot” in our memory database where we keep one image [… Read More]

Faces of SPD ~ Meet Caroline

  Caroline age 6 1/2yrs was officially diagnosed with SPD at the age of almost 6.  We had suspicions of SPD since the age of 3.  She did have red flags of SPD as early as 8mos of age.  We would make mention of things when in for our well baby visits and I would [… Read More]

Faces of SPD ~ Meet Kheenan

  Raising Kheenan is wonderful, challenging, heart-breaking, frustrating, and exhausting.  He is almost four now and loves to play with his brothers, ride his bike, and “go very fast” on our boat.  He is silly and funny and loves to pretend he is a super hero.  From very early on we started noticing things were [… Read More]

Baltimore “FACES” Sessions

Ok gang!  We are gearing up for our Faces sessions in B’more!  We will be there Saturday April 14th from 9am-3pm.  During this time, we are booking sessions every half hour. Here are a few notes about the sessions: The sessions will take place in the Fed Hill/Inner Harbor area of Baltimore. Meeting place will [… Read More]