Kevin's Healing Journey: Happy 20th Anniversary

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Happy 20th Anniversary

Jon and I celebrated our 20th Anniversary while we were visiting my family the week of Easter. We spent a couple nights in downtown Cincinnati while Kevin got to hang out at Grandee & Pap's house. Thanks Mom & Dad! My sister gave fantastic choices of places to see and eat so we could just relax and enjoy ourselves. In the last 20 years, Cincinnati has made some great changes to the riverfront area. It's now my favorite city to visit especially when it's outdoor weather to take advantage of all the walking paths along the river. I highly recommend it and can't wait to take Kevin down there to enjoy the Carousel.

Spent a beautiful evening walking The Banks

Fountain Square with purple lights and Graeter's ice cream!

French Cafe across from Findlay Market

Purple tulips in Washington Park

Beautiful View

Primavista

Breakfast with BYOChampagne

They pulled out the red carpet for us

Swings on The Banks

The Queen City

Kevin living it up at Grandee & Pap's house

April 26 - Anniversary date at Sarah's Vineyard

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This blog was created to keep our family and friends updated on Kevin's healing journey. It is also our hope that others may find this blog to give help and hope to other delayed kids.

About Kevin

They told us Kevin would never walk or talk. But with lots of prayers, hard work, and extra hands, he began walking when he was four years old and we continue to have faith and hope as we wait patiently for his speech to develop. Kevin is now eight years old. He is diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy due to a brain-injury he had before birth that was caused by a stroke. In 2006, before Kevin was 2 years old, we found Glenn Doman’s book "What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child" that had answers to help children with special needs and developmental delays. We began an individualized home treatment program for Kevin immediately and have been dedicated to our program ever since. We spent three years with the Doman family at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential (IAHP) and now we are with Matthew and Carol Newell at The Family Hope Center (FHC). Twice a year we return to Philadelphia where Kevin receives a neurological evaluation to determine the progress he has made in the last six months. Then they provide us with an individualized, program that puts me in charge to help Kevin develop and reach his fullest potential.

Do You Know a Delayed Child?

The best recommendation we can give to another parent with a special needs or developmentally delayed child (brain-injured, brain-damaged, mentally retarded, mentally deficient, cerebral-palsied, epileptic, autistic, athetoid, hyperactive, attention deficit disordered, developmentally delayed, or down's) is to read Glenn Doman's book What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child and/or Dr. Coralee Thompson and Dr. Philip Maffetone's book Healthy Brains, Healthy Children. By simply reading these books, you will gain valuable information to help your child which will begin to unlock the potential your child has. And best of all you will learn that there are other options to helping your child that you can do yourself. We would also highly recommend attending the parent course at FHC or IAHP. To read how our journey began and the successful progress Kevin has had refer to the January 2010 blog archive.