It's a Snow Day!
When it’s too cold and snowy to go outside, you can bring the snow inside with this fun, sensory activity HERE.

Your child can still experience snow with all their senses while learning important concepts like “cold” and “wet,” sequencing skills while you build a snowman, and predicting what happens when the snow melts.

If this is the first time your child is experiencing snow, just put some in a bowl or cup so they can touch it with their hands or feet or try tasting it. Put a towel on the floor just in case your floor gets wet!
Bake Tickle-Me-Pink Cookies
Instead of rolling dough and cutting out heart-shaped cookies for Valentine's Day, try these strawberry-flavored cookies made with just three ingredients!

The secret to this new sensory recipe is a strawberry cake mix, which you combine with vegetable oil and two eggs. While the cookies are baking, your kitchen will smell like strawberries. The cookies turn out soft, puffy, and very pink!

Try the recipe HERE.




What Is Pink?
by Rebecca Gomez
Pink is the color of a warm embrace,
a kiss from Grandma,
a baby’s face.
A wash of color on a sunset sky,
a flush of fever,
a happy sigh.
A cozy cuddle on a cool afternoon,
fragrant blossoms,
a song-bird’s tune.
Pink is all puffy and happy and proud,
bright as the sun,
soft as a cloud.

Ask the Expert -- Communicating with Cues
Young children who are blind or visually impaired can miss many subtle cues that let them know what is happening around them.

They may not notice you making a shopping list, putting on your coat, and grabbing the car keys until they’re suddenly whisked off to the store, feeling a little surprised and rattled.

Communicating with cues can help your child anticipate events during daily activities.

For example, you can use familiar sound-producing objects to alert your child to an upcoming activity, like jingling your car keys before you run an errand. A certain way you touch your child – like touching a spoon to their lips, hand, or forearm before introducing food -- is another cue.

A favorite book might indicate reading time or a rubber duck, bathtime. And using your words to communicate what’s happening next, e.g. “I’m going to pick you up! One, two, three…UP!” This will help your child anticipate the change and be ready, rather than startled by it.
Support A Shared Vision While You Shop
Thanks to the families who shop at King Soopers and City Market in Colorado, A Shared Vision received $1,670 in 2023! We are grateful for all who have signed up for the King Soopers/City Market Community Awards program, which donates a percentage of your grocery purchases to A Shared Vision at no cost to you. 

Learn how to sign up for this program HERE and support Colorado’s children who are blind or visually impaired.
An Attitude of Gratitude
A Shared Vision began in 2016 to address the need for high-quality, in-home early intervention services for Colorado’s families with very young children who are blind or visually impaired. Since then, we have supported 742 children and their families and provided 11,000 in-home service visits!

This level of support would not be possible without the dedication of our teachers and the many individuals and foundations who see the value that early intervention brings to these families!

We especially want to thank the Buell Foundation, the James Hynd Trust for the Blind, the Gerald Erikson Trust of the Pikes Peak Foundation, and LONG Building Technologies, Inc. for their support in 2023.
A Shared Vision is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and the leading provider of in-home and community early intervention vision services in Colorado. We inspire and empower families to nurture the development of their very young children who are blind or visually impaired so that all children may discover their brightest future.
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