Reciprocal Learning Community continues to grow
By Janine Paschal
It’s been a year since I started helping coordinate the Reciprocal Learning Community (RLC) -- a really satisfying year. We've heard professionals share their knowledge and experience, heard family members tell about their own lives and offer tips and tricks, and shared family stories and successes. Event topics included early childhood literacy, feeding and nutrition, and sensory issues. RLC attendees walked away with an enormous amount of useful information and valuable connections, not to mention some cool door prizes. Attendance nearly doubled from that first session last June to our latest session!
The RLC provides a fabulous opportunity to get to know people and strengthen our community. Even though my own daughter is fast approaching her seventh birthday, I find that in every session I learn new strategies that will help me support her and advocate for her. I also find that there are many things that I wish I had known when she was in the birth to 5 age range, which is our target audience for the RLC.
