Kevin's Healing Journey: February 2019

Thursday, February 7, 2019

The Lost Voice Guy

The other night Jon and Kevin were secluded upstairs watching TV while I hosted my Wild Goose Sisters. Jon said Kevin had started dozing off but perked right up when he heard this guy’s VOICE on the TV show. The Lost Voice Guy is a performing comedian on America's Got Talent and he uses a communication device. He won Britains Got Talent Show.

Super Sunday - February 3, 2019

Super Bowl Sunday turned out to be a pretty super day!

Lake Erie frozen on a sunny and nearly 60 degree day

Kevin and the 6 year old Birthday Boy!

Ethan and his friend helping Kevin cross the shaky
bridge and walk over obstacles to get to the slide.
Another PT moment in real life...with no shoes!

Check out this video of Kevin going down the slide.

Cold Snowy Days in January 2019

SNOW theme while it's snowing outside

Pretty!

Jon the neighborhood snow blower

Beautiful!

I went cross-country skiing!

I went hiking in the snow too!

A story of a woman who receives a heart transplant
and her eventual meeting with the family of the donor.

My Blog

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.