Benefits With Friends: Art helps school spread sunshine

FILE PHOTO/DAVID GOTTSCHALK Abbygail Gonzalez plays with her doll in the Arkansas Better Chance Toddler Room at the Northwest Arkansas Sunshine School and Development Center in Little Flock. A Very Special Art Show on Nov. 7 at Record in Bentonville will benefit the school.
FILE PHOTO/DAVID GOTTSCHALK Abbygail Gonzalez plays with her doll in the Arkansas Better Chance Toddler Room at the Northwest Arkansas Sunshine School and Development Center in Little Flock. A Very Special Art Show on Nov. 7 at Record in Bentonville will benefit the school.

Anne Marie Kehoe, Walmart vice president, toys; Brad Bedwell, Walmart senior buying manager, toys; Reid Thornton, Walmart senior buying manager, bikes and ride-ons, will serve as honorary chairmen for A Very Special Art Show on Nov. 7 to benefit the Sunshine School and Development Center in Rogers.

The event at Record in Bentonville will feature works by local artists and Sunshine School students, beer, wine, hors d'oeuvres and live entertainment.

A Very Special Art Show

Who: Sunshine School and Development Center

What: Works by local artists and Sunshine School students, beer, wine, hors d’oeuvres, live entertainment

When: 6-9:30 p.m. Nov. 7

Where: Record in Bentonville

Tickets: $50

Information: (479) 636-3190 or nwasunshineschool.o…

The nonprofit organization founded in 1958 offers a therapeutic preschool for children ages 18 months to 5 years who have developmental delays or disabilities. The center also serves school-age children with outpatient therapies and provides community support for adults with disabilities in Benton and Washington counties.

The school implemented the Arkansas Autism Waiver Program in 2013 to provide early intervention for children diagnosed with autism from ages 2 to 7. The program is designed to provide intensive therapy early, with an emphasis on parental involvement. Earlier intervention and the start of therapies such as occupational, physical and speech-language therapies, are providing better outcomes for students.

-- CARIN SCHOPPMEYER

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NAN Our Town on 10/17/2019

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