Montana hospital program gives Halloween costumes to children with disabilities

BILLINGS— A program at Billings Clinic is giving adaptive Halloween costumes to children with disabilities for free for the third year in a row.

The costumes in the Adaptive Halloween Costume Library include designs that accommodate wheelchairs, feeding tubes, sensory issues and mobility issues.

Watch to see how one family is using the program: Montana hospital program gives adaptive Halloween costumes to children with disabilities

The costumes go to children such as 3-year-old Anakin Milligan, who was diagnosed with Menkes disease at four months old.

The disease affects his body’s ability to absorb and use copper, which has left Anakin to rely on a wheelchair.

Vanessa Willardson

“It affects pretty much every single organ in his body,” said Anakin’s mother, Melissa Milligan.

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