Autism Project of Southern Ohio

11/13/2025

Christmas time is here! 🎅 Two Moms’ Hearts is continuing their Operation: Secret Santa for the special needs community! Message their page if interested in signing your child(ren) up or for receiving a child you can bless this Christmas! 🎁

ONLY 9 SPOTS REMAINING!! 🎄

EDIT TO ADD: we are getting an overwhelming amount of messages from people wanting to sign children up who are not special needs, our event for Two Moms Hearts are for special needs children & individuals ONLY. We truly wish we could help our whole community. 🤍🤍

‼️IT’S TIIIIIIME 🎄‼️

Two Moms’ Hearts Secret Santa for the SPECIAL NEEDS community is LIVE for a 2nd year!!

We are accepting names for our limited gift program (30 spots for special needs individuals in our community - Scioto County ONLY).

🤍 A Plea to Our Community: If you are able to purchase gifts for your special needs child this year, please help us save a spot for a family in greater need. We want to help as many struggling families as possible as we all know this year is especially tough for some families in our community. 🤍

• Sign-up is for consideration only. We cannot guarantee your child will be chosen.
• “Adoption” depends on Santa availability.
• You will be notified if your child is adopted by December 6th!
• Delivery date is December 20th by Santa’s Elves, we will not be doing additional meets or drops offs apart from that day as we don’t know what the weather will be around that time.

All other information is listed below in our flyer! PLEASE feel free to share with any family, therapist, aide, teacher, you feel necessary to help us bring joy to 30 amazing families for a second year in a row!! 🤍G

11/06/2025

For individuals with a waiver and not receiving their SNAP benefits due to the government shutdown, the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities is working with local DD Boards to deliver meals! Contact your Board for the details!

If your loved one with a DODD waiver (IO, SELF, or Level 1) is a SNAP recipient who is currently not receiving SNAP benefits due to the ongoing government shutdown, contact your county board of DD right away to get set up with DODD's home-delivered meals option.

10/29/2025

We had a blast at our Halloween Party! Everyone enjoyed trick-or-treating, food, games, and dancing! We wish everyone a fun and safe Halloween season 👻

10/26/2025

Only a few more days to sign up for our mobile trick or treat for the special needs community of Scioto County!!

Please message us or comment below to be messaged.

As usual, we will start towards West Portsmouth then Otway/Rarden - Lucasville - Minford/Webster - Burg/Furnace - Portsmouth 🤍 If you will not be home when we come through (we can never give exact times) we are more than happy to leave it on your porch! 🤍

Thank you to the people who have helped us make this possible!

10/23/2025

Come see us and many more until 7:30PM at Vern Riffe Schools for Scioto County Board of DD’s Fall-o-ween!

https://facebook.com/events/s/fall-o-ween-2025/2011112583060789/

10/16/2025

Our Adventurers continued their Planets badge with giving a report on their assigned planet, drawing out the planets’ distances to scale, learning about how astronauts eat in space with “astronaut pudding” and peanut butter sandwiches on tortillas, and playing some Planet Trivia! Their next adventure will be the planetarium! 🪐🔭

10/10/2025

Thank you to all SSAs!!

Happy SSA Appreciation Day!!!!!

Today we celebrate our amazing Service and Support Administrators (SSAs); the people who walk beside individuals with developmental disabilities and their families every step of the way.

From early childhood and throughout adulthood, SSAs help coordinate supports, build connections, and make sure each person’s voice leads the plan. Their work truly makes a difference every day! 🌟

Drop a comment below to shout out your favorite SSA and help us thank them for all they do! 👏

10/06/2025

For our friends in Lawrence County, this levy coming up in November is to provide needed services for those with developmental disabilities in their county. Without this funding, those of all ages will suffer. Here in Scioto county we have seen great compassion and support from the community, and we hope to see the same in Lawrence!

Superintendent says Early Intervention programs would also cease The superintendent of Lawrence County Developmental Disabilities says, if the funding levy for the agency fails to pass in November, the agency will be forced to close Open Door School Julie Monroe said there is “nothing left to cut....

10/01/2025

A mobile Trick-or-Treat is Scioto County! 😍 For all ages!!

❕ TRICK OR TREAT SIGN UPS ❕🦇🔮💀👻

The time has came for the 2nd Mobile Trick or Treat for the Special Needs community of Scioto County! 🤍

If you would like to sign up, please message this page or Hannah Marie Todd or Sophia Rohrbaugh!

We know it isn’t always easy to take your special needs child or individual out to enjoy the events, so let us bring the event to you! 🤍

We will be delivering candy the day after Halloween! 🎃

PLEASE SHARE & TAG! 🤍

09/28/2025

During the summer, our scout troop the Adventurers started their new badge, Planets! Each scout received their own planet in our solar system and painted a model of it. After enjoying a snack with Dippin’ Dots, they mined some crystals and received their planet homework for the next meeting!