Carolina Children's Charity

Since the Charity's founding in 1987, it has provided assistance to thousands of children located in charleston, berkeley, dorchester, and colleton counties with birth defects or other disabling diseases in services totaling more than $4.8 million. These range from asthma to cerebral palsy, from juvenile diabetes to cancer, and many more in between. All grant recipients must be age 18 and under and reside within charleston, berkeley, dorchester, and colleton counties.

Grants were approved in four categories: therapy, equipment, medical care and lodging. The therapy category had the largest amount of grant requests. This has been the trend for at least the last seven years. This is not at all surprising since coverage for therapy is more limited once a child turns 3 years old. Grants in this category include occupational therapy (ot), physical therapy (pt), speech therapy (st), music therapy, applied behavioral analysis (aba) therapy, vision therapy, therapeutic horseback riding, leap (lowcountry equine assisted psychotherapy).

Carolina Children's Charity has provided assistance to cover the costs of therapy, special equipment, medications, medically necessary evaluation and testing, and much more to charleston, berkeley, dorchester, and colleton counties families.