Kevin's Healing Journey: 2018 Books and Learning Materials

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

2018 Books and Learning Materials

Some of our favorite books to use with the Talker. The books have many core words that repeat throughout the book that are good opportunities for Kevin to use his Talker to participate in reading the book along with me.

GO DOG GO has a favorite bit that repeats throughout the book and it makes Kevin laugh...sometimes I even add different hats to play along for fun.

Words: hello, goodbye, like, not
More Words: go, dog, big, little, in, out, up, down, over, under, stop, night, play, sleep, colors,

BEAR WANTS MORE - February 2018

While we were at the table, Kevin said BEAR and I used it as an opportunity to place meaning to it. I brought out the books Bear Wants More and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See and let him choose. He chose Bear Wants More. I had him say/read the two word phrase “WANT MORE” throughout the story. When the story was ALL DONE, Kevin said BEAR WANT BOOK…so we read it again!

Reading Bear Wants More
with Marissa's fabulous character voices

The next day (with a different helper) Kevin said BEAR again and I prompted him. What about BEAR? Kevin said BOOK. My helper Kristen H. is a very good reader because she points things out on the page while reading the story. Of course Kevin wanted to read the book again and when she read "Bear wants..." we were waiting for Kevin to say MORE but instead he said EAT. Of course, Yes, the Bear Wants to EAT!!!! I love this one!

PUT ME IN THE ZOO - Thanks to Grandma we have another fun felt board story.

We have two book shelves of learning materials in all subject areas thanks to the many many generous family, neighbor friends, church friends, work friends, students and anyone else I could recruit to make Bit Cards for Kevin when we were in the early program years. A Bit card is encyclopedic knowledge with 10 facts on a specific subject. We had over 10,000 bit cards at one time, but about a year ago I weeded through some of them to allow more room to browse through the cramped book shelves. I am very grateful to have our very own library of knowledge at my fingertips. Grandma has been guiding Kevin through the States and Presidents and supplements with fun books she finds at the library and bookstores.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: State, Flag, Bird, Flower, and Tree

US PRESIDENTS and FIRST LADIES

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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.