Press Releases

March 10, 2017 : Giant Steps is proud to announce that the 2017 Sugar Grove Corn Boil festival's 50th anniversary celebration will be dedicated to the Canopy Adult Services Program (CASP). The celebration begins Friday, July 28th at 5:00 p.m. with a parade, led by CASP participants and staff members, which will end in Volunteer Park where the Corn ...

2017 PASTA FUNDRAISER February 24, 2017 – Giant Steps is excited to announce the launch of a partnership with Fun Pasta Fundraising, which will help fund a variety of high school student programming this year. A large portion of the proceeds will go toward providing a real high school prom experience for our students. Fundraising dollars will help ...

February 16, 2017: Giant Steps, in its never-ending pursuit to better serve the autism community, submitted eight grants this week, totaling a massive $6,695,000 in potential funding. The eight grant proposals focus on expanding Giant Steps' infrastructure as well as its ability to more innovatively engage students in various form of academia.
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February 16, 2017:  Researchers at the University of North Carolina recently released findings stating that they were able to predict, with relatively high accuracy, the likelihood of an autism diagnosis in babies who had an older sibling on the autism spectrum. Early identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is crucial in providing those impacted individuals with targeted interventions in order to help mitigate the impact of ASD later in their lives.