Dr. Bernadette Wheeler, a Penn Medicine doctor, found Something Different by Eric, a nonprofit gift shop in 2015 for her son Eric, who has Down syndrome, writes Tamala Edwards for 6ABC.

Eric is the oldest of her three children and she wanted something that he could do. Eric works as a greeter in the store.

The store in Bryn Mawr was also created to give back to others, she said.

“We actually have items in the store that either the vendors give money back to people with disabilities, or we actually try to get people that have disabilities to actually have their items in our store.”

Wheeler said that they also try to help women-owned businesses. And the store is also a library where people can get books for people with disabilities.

She added that the store shows that “people with different needs can actually make a difference.”

Read more about the nonprofit at 6ABC.

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