Dianne and Lauren's Blog

Despite years of speech therapy Lauren's quality use of her voice has never improved. No voice projection! No volume! This makes it near impossible for anyone to with her. It was time to think left field! Because Lauren loves music in 2016 we enrolled Lauren into...

Congratulations to Lauren on successful completion of VCE (unscored)! What a truly magnificent achievement for a young person who was told in Grade Prep to "be realistic" academically..... because she would fail grade prep. Truth is that Lauren has so many people to...

On Saturday 26th November, Lauren participated in the RDA Oaklands Christmas Party and rode Dressage to Music Test E. Inspired by her recent meet up with Cyndi Lauper, Lauren rode Midnight Princess to the song 'Early Christmas Morning' (sung by Cyndi Lauper). The...

Thursday October 20th was certainly a day to cherish when Lauren got to meet the most amazing Cyndi Lauper. Lauren L-O-V-E-S Cyndi and her favorite song 'Girls just want to have fun' is Lauren's theme song I do believe. It came about when I wrote an email to the...

Lauren riding Midnight Princess proved to be a formidable team at the 2016 RDA State Championships. Lauren participated in the Independent Walk for both Ride A and Ride E, as well as the Walk Led in the Working Trial.        Both rider and horse rose to the...

Lauren is riding Monty after things did not quite go to plan! Her original horse was startled by the clapping crowd and threw Lauren off. To her credit, Lauren mounted Monty under the care of Keith and Fiona. This video is very special because dear Keith is no longer...

Publishing ‘Lauren’s Creed Wings to Fly” was brave. Those who have read ‘Lauren’s Creed Wings to Fly’ will know that it is a deeply personal account of our family as we have ridden the rollercoaster ride that is disability. It was the deep conviction that Lauren...

Lauren does not let Autism and Intellectual Disability stop her from setting goals and working hard to achieve them.