"Our amazing speech pathologist, Roisin from KidzWish Foundation visited today with a special gift for Ashton to help him understand his upcoming hip surgery (booked for 10 days time 😳). She has created a special book, called a ‘Social Story’ which we will start reading to Ashton so that he can understand and prepare for what to expect from his operation. Thanks so much Ro, this will not only help Ashton, but will help us in explaining what is a difficult conversation to have. Xx" - Ashton's mother Renee

😄 SMILES 😄 of the Week. We recently held a special screening of Sherlock Gnomes to allow families to enjoy a movie in a safe and accepting environment where kids are free to get up, move around, shout or sing. We love our jobs when we receive emails like this: ⭐ "Thank you for the wonderful day at the movies. My kids loved the day out. We are very grateful and want to thank you and Kids Wish. Thanks again from the Tonga Family." ⭐ "Just passing on a big thanks from the kids for the movie tickets today. They loved the movie and kept talking about it all afternoon! The treats were an added bonus and their first choc top experience is one they very much liked! Thank you!" This experience made possible thanks to Finance Control.

It's been a magical Wednesday for 40 of our KidzWish families. We've spent the morning spreading smiles and watching @sherlockgnomes thanks to our good friends at @finance_control ... because local kidz matter.

Huge shout out to our friends at @sydlug for their incredible donation of $21,606 to KidzWish! 100% of these funds are going straight to the development of the new KidzWish Place in Flinders.

Ari is one of the coolest kids ever, isn't he? Love that smile!! After having attended KidzWish for just over a year Ari could be considered a fan favourite of the volunteers and kids. He loves to talk about anything and everything, and makes sure that his friends are getting involved. It’s hard to say whether he prefers playing wheelchair basketball or just hanging out with his mates. Please send our buddy lots of love and encouragement to cheer him on in style!!

A huge thank you to all our friends at the 9th annual KidzWish Bowls Day for raising money for our cause. 100% of these funds will be put towards: Dexter's new walker and the construction of the multi-purpose sports hall at the new KidzWish Place in Flinders.

"KidzWish have been an amazing help to our son, what I love the most about the therapy services is that it is all about "family" everyone is welcome to participate and included making not only my son feel welcome and not different but including us helps us to understand his all that much better and making therapy part of our day to day activities so much easier." - KidzWish Parent

"We have only just started with KidzWish's #NDIS services but I do like the options of centre visits. This is important to me as my child doesn’t work well with home visits. I need flexible workers & so far this has been great." - KidzWish Parent