Team of Kids with Special Needs to Compete in Dance Competition: ‘They Are Showing the World They Can Do Anything’ (people.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) 2/22/179:32 PM

Kim Smith has been dancing since she was 2 years old and teaching dance for decades. So it broke her heart when her youngest daughter Ragan never quite fit in in the classes she tried.

“I was trying to find a program for Ragan, but she is autistic and has a short attention span,” Smith tells PEOPLE.

So Smith, 50, created a class for Ragan, 7, and other kids with special needs like her in Charlotte, North Carolina.

This spring, 10 of the kids will compete in a traditional dance competition.

“Our front row consists a child with autism, another with two prosthetic legs and another with dwarfism,” she adds.

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