A Shot of AG
Finding What Carter Needed
Clip: Season 6 Episode 35 | 1m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
The Navarros explain how searching for opportunities for Carter helped inspire their farm.
Damien and Sherri Navarro remember searching for activities that could give their son Carter independence while still providing the support he needed. Along the way, they met other families facing the same challenge and began recognizing how few opportunities existed. Those relationships helped inspire a larger idea centered on seeing people’s abilities rather than their diagnoses.
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A Shot of AG
Finding What Carter Needed
Clip: Season 6 Episode 35 | 1m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
Damien and Sherri Navarro remember searching for activities that could give their son Carter independence while still providing the support he needed. Along the way, they met other families facing the same challenge and began recognizing how few opportunities existed. Those relationships helped inspire a larger idea centered on seeing people’s abilities rather than their diagnoses.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- So, I don't even know how to transition this, but your son, I mean, that led to this farm.
Correct?
- That was part of it.
We feel God planted that seed in our life, this farm, to make this happen.
- Over the years, I guess that would be a good way to transition into it.
Over the years, you get involved with things.
We did, like, park district stuff.
You're always looking for something to sign your kid up for.
And we couldn't find the perfect thing for Carter because he wanted his independence, but yet he still needed to be cued.
He still needed someone there.
And you were trying to give him his space, but at the same time, the park districts didn't offer someone to coach him on the side.
So it was finding that middle ground for him.
So after we did find a place and got him involved in it, we were meeting all these families and all these kids with the same abilities... - Diagnosis.
- And diagnosis.
- More importantly, their abilities that people weren't seeing.
- Yeah.
And I mean, over the years, just growing relationships with them and bonding with the families and realizing there's really not much for our kids to do.
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Clip: S6 Ep35 | 1m 22s | Damien and Sherri Navarro share their son Carter’s story and his Down syndrome diagnosis. (1m 22s)
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Clip: S6 Ep35 | 1m 19s | Damien and Sherri Navarro explain the idea that became the mission of Navarro Farm. (1m 19s)
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