Kevin's Healing Journey: Happy 13th Birthday

Sunday, October 15, 2017

Happy 13th Birthday - October 6, 2017

Niagara Falls Birthday Trip
October 6 - 8, 2017

My parents have come up to visit us three times this year and during every visit they have accompanied us to the hospital for Kevin's two surgeries and rehab stay. Kevin is very into routines and I was concerned that he would begin to associate their visits with a trip to the hospital. So we happily made plans for Grandee and Pap to visit us a fourth time to celebrate Kevin's 13th birthday with a trip to Niagara Falls and Toronto. This was Kevin's 5th visit to Niagara Falls!

Kevin made a Canadian friend who was also celebrating her birthday

Lake Erie - Headlands Beach

Geography Lesson: Niagara Falls and River connects two of the Great Lakes. Our trip included a lunch stop with a view of Lake Erie on our way to and from Canada. And a view of Lake Ontario during our day trip to Toronto.

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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.