Kevin's Healing Journey: New Bike Video

Friday, May 10, 2019

New Bike Video - May 6, 2019

Watch this video of Kevin - his third time on his new bike and I think he's doing an awesome job!

The adapted trike he was riding last year had a seat-back with safety belts, loop handlebar, pedals with straps, and a pulley system to make pedaling easier.

New bike features: a cruiser-style with step-thru frame; 17" frame and 26" wheel size; larger seat; swept back handlebars; handlebar brakes; shifting gears...and of course stabilizer training wheels.

At this time, I can walk while Kevin bikes because his speed isn't very fast. The pedaling is more challenging than the adapted trike, even in a low gear but he is doing very well. His left foot slips off the pedal at times but he does a great job putting it back on the pedal...I'm hoping he will make progress in this area. I am really pleased that the handlebars seem to be a good fit for his left hand...even when it slips off he is usually able to put it back on...this is a new skill for him! He does all his steering with this right hand. The handbrake is necessary so I can use it to slow him down if we come across a downhill...but thankfully we don't live in Pittsburgh so most of our biking is flat terrain. The bike does very well on our neighborhood sidewalks...bumps and all. Kevin just sometimes needs a little more umph to get going. It is also fairly easy to get on and off the bike with the step-thru frame. I'm so excited to see what kind of progress he makes this season on his new bike.

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ritaFriday, May 10, 2019
Way to cruise Kevin 🚴‍♀️
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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.