Support small businesses
Support other families of children with autism and other special needs! Every business below is run by a family walking the same road — when you book, shop, or share, you’re helping a village family thrive.
Sensory Space
A fully mobile sensory room that comes to you — birthday parties, school days, church events, or anywhere a calm-down space would change the day. Founded by James and Emily Erby after their daughter’s autism diagnosis at age two; wheelchair accessible, with packages from one to five hours.
Serves Middle Tennessee, traveling up to about two hours.
Bibles and Coffee
Hand-painted, personalized Bibles, journaling supplies, and faith-filled gifts from Jackie and Mike Dausend — with a coffee-shop-meets-Bible-boutique home on West Main Street in downtown Murfreesboro. A lovely stop for a meaningful keepsake, made by hands that know your road.
Shop online or visit downtown Murfreesboro.
Little Luminaries Therapy Services
“Lighting the way to communication and connection” — the play-based, neurodiversity-affirming pediatric speech practice led by Dr. Taylor Hickok, offering speech therapy, AAC evaluations, and parent coaching. It’s also where Our Special Village was born.
1810 Ward Dr Suite #101, Murfreesboro · (615) 900-4420
Light Hill Meats
Ben and Lauren Neale’s pasture-to-plate beef farm and USDA-inspected butcher shop — and through their nonprofit, Light Hill Ministries, the family behind Santa’s Sensory Wonderland every December: a free, calm, sensory-friendly Santa experience with professional photos and crafts, run with Mindful Voices Autism Consulting. Watch the calendar for this year’s date.
150 Stephen P. Yokich Pkwy, Suites E & F, Spring Hill · (931) 488-4631
Dinner, handled
Families asked for this one: seasons when cooking just isn’t happening, and kids whose plates have rules. Local meal services that publish their dietary accommodations — always confirm specifics for your family’s restrictions.
Munch
Made-to-order counter and weekly meal-prep pickup at 810 Medical Center Parkway, Murfreesboro. Most bowls can go vegetarian or vegan, most are gluten-free (ask staff to double-check labels for allergies), and they cook only in olive oil — never nut or seed oils.
BYT Nutrition
Murfreesboro meal-prep with a 7-day custom plan ($55.93 — about $8/meal) and five Middle TN pickup spots. Menus filter by keto, low-carb, high-fiber, low-sodium, vegetarian, and vegan, with allergen disclosures on most items.
Chefs for Seniors — Murfreesboro
An in-home personal chef who shops, cooks, and cleans up in your kitchen — with dietitian-reviewed menus spanning low-sodium, diabetic, soft-food, vegetarian, and more. Built for seniors, but it’s a household service, and it also serves Smyrna, La Vergne, and Nolensville.
Vibrant Meals
Nashville chef-prepared weekly meal delivery whose zone includes Murfreesboro — whole-food ingredients, no seed oils, with gluten-free, dairy-free, paleo, and high-protein menus.
PaleoWorks
Middle Tennessee meal delivery built entirely around dietary restrictions — Whole30 Approved, paleo, and keto/gluten-free menus, delivering to Murfreesboro, Smyrna, Nashville, and beyond.
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If your family is raising a child with special needs and running a small business — products, services, anything — we want to feature you here, free. The village shops with its own.
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