8-Year-Old Writes Letter Requesting A Park Swing For Brother With Disabilities

After visiting a new local park, 8-year-old Naomi Gwynne had an important request for the “park builders.” She wanted them to include a swing for her brother with disabilities and other kids like him. Naomi’s mother, Miriam Gwynne, told The Huffington Post that she recently took Naomi and her twin brother, Isaac, to a new park near their home in Scotland. Naomi and Isaac both have autism. Isaac is nonverbal and has neurofibromatosis type 1 and learning difficulties. He is also vision-impaired. During their visit to the park, Naomi noticed there were no swings designed with kids like her brother in mind, so she wrote a letter addressed to the “park builders.” “I had no idea she was going to write a letter, but she did ask me to spell a few ‘tricky’ words like ‘disabled,’” Miriam told HuffPost. In her letter, Naomi wrote that Isaac is “too big for a baby swing and can’t hold on to the bars of the grown-up swings.” She also drew a picture of a swing for kids with disabilities, which her mom said she has seen at various parks in Scotland. The 8-year-old wrote how she and her brother felt about the park not having the swing. “His favourite thing is a swing and we are both sad ― why did you forget about him?” she wrote. On Sunday, Miriam tweeted a photo of the letter and asked people to spread the word to see if something could be done. She told HuffPost that on Monday she heard back...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news