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May 2023 Special Needs Living Akron/Canton
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About this month's magazine
It is hard to believe that we are wrapping up the first full year of Special Needs Living Akron/Canton Magazine. As we look back it is hard to believe how fast year 1 flew by! When we launched our magazine in June of 2022, we had a lot of great ideas but were also aware this magazine was going to be a little bit of throwing spaghetti and the wall to see what sticks, however, we were excited to jump in and get rolling.
As the months went by and the new issues came out, we continued to fine-tune our content, our design and our approach and along the way, we met so many amazing people, organizations, and families that we’ve absolutely fallen in love with. We’ve had the opportunity to bring you amazing stories and features which we hope you found as inspiring as we did! We also continued to add to our roster of talented quarterly contributors who help us bring a different level of expertise and experience to our publication.
As we were discussing ideas for the best way to celebrate wrapping up our first year in print, we had an “ah-ha” moment a few months back while sitting in a coffee shop having our weekly meeting! Since we are a magazine dedicated to celebrating people with disabilities & special needs, we thought why not make our 12th magazine 100% written by individuals with disabilities and special needs, in their own words, in their feelings, from their perspective and most importantly, all about them!
We gave our writers a month off and we went back through all of the previous magazines and picked out a wide range of individuals we have previously featured and invited them back to be the content creators of this month’s magazine! We told them they could write about anything that they wanted. This magazine is filled with content, in their words, and from their hearts.
We hope you enjoy reading this month’s Special Needs Living Akron/Canton magazine as much as we’ve enjoyed assembling it. If you are new to our magazine, we invite you to go back and read their stories in the initial issue at www. TheSpecialNeedsLiving.com! We are excited to welcome all of our friends back and to continue to do our part to tell their inspirational stories!
Enjoy! - Mike & Rick
