Kevin's Healing Journey: Happy 14th Birthday

Saturday, January 12, 2019

Happy 14th Birthday - October 6, 2018

We had a visit planned to see my family for some of the kid's activities the weekend of Kevin's birthday. The schedule was busy with a Friday night high school football game to watch the marching band perform. On Saturday (Kevin's birthday) two afternoon soccer games and an evening marching band competition. On Sunday another football game to watch the cheerleader.

My family asked me for gift ideas for Kevin. There's not much Kevin needs/wants and he doesn't get excited about gifts. I told them that just being together on his birthday would make Kevin happy. My brother and sister surprised us by sending an invitation to the family. They were able to find a time to squeeze in a birthday party for Kevin on Saturday morning...for Breakfast, Biking, and Boating at a local park. I made Kevin his Birthday Apple Dish Surprise...that he devoured. It really meant a lot to me that they planned a family party for Kevin. It was perfect and he loved it!

It's my birthday...I'll just help myself to more

And at the end of that long busy birthday...Kevin was still smiling...and eating.

Slime with his cousins

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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.