Down Syndrome -Our Journey

Meet the Peck Family

By Maura Higgs Photos by Heather Gregg – 21 Vines Photography

The Creation of Mini Minds

Megan, Mitchell, Nolan, 9, Rowan, 7, and Aidan, 5.

Megan Peck is a mental health therapist who opened a multi-disciplinary clinic, Mini Minds, after she found herself driving all over central Indiana to get her son the best therapists. While Megan is originally from Libertyville, IL, she went out East for both her undergraduate and graduate degrees. She was brought back to the Midwest in 2011 when she married her husband, who was born and raised in Noblesville.

Megan and her husband, Mitchell, have three children, Nolan, 9, Rowan, 7, and Aidan, 5. Megan was homeschooling all three of them, but Nolan recently received approval for his Access therapist to attend elementary school with him full time. Nolan has Down syndrome, and when he was first born, his parents didn’t feel like there was a brick-and-mortar location to gather with other families like theirs. Megan and Mitchell ended up starting a location of GiGi’s Playhouse, which opened in January of 2015. It was after Nolan graduated from First Steps in the summer of 2015 that Megan opened her multi-disciplinary Mini Minds clinic.

Mini Minds offers mental health, speech, occupational, and feeding therapy for children, as well as classes for the entire community, so all three of her children can learn and grow together here. Megan said that Nolan hits all of his developmental milestones just a little behind his peers, which makes the celebration that much sweeter. (He just recently taught himself how to swim!)

Megan’s advice for others experiencing similar situations and challenges is to make time for self-care. Megan loves the oxygen mask analogy—you have to take care of yourself first to be able to take care of your child!

Megan, Mitchell, Nolan, 9, Rowan, 7, and Aidan, 5. Nolan, 9, Rowan, 7, and Aidan, 5.

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