Kevin's Healing Journey: Bike, Dance, Walk

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Bike, Dance, Walk - May 5 & 6, 2018

This was an extraordinarily awesome and abundantly blessed weekend...and it wasn't just the perfect spring weather in Ohio.

Saturday morning, Kevin and I cheered on our church's 5K-ers. Kevin rode his bike up and down the sidewalk on the 5K route. He rang his bike bell and honked his horn to cheer them on from the first to the last participant…it was so much fun!!!

Saturday evening, Kevin had his spring dance recital. We were once again blessed with family and friends coming to see Kevin and his awesome friends. Pictures to follow in a separate post.

Lots and lots of blessings but here is my favorite...
Sunday afternoon, Jon, Kevin, and I went to the Daffodil Trail and Kevin walked the entire 0.8 mile trail !!!!! I AM SO PROUD OF HIM!!!!

New opportunities are opening up for us with all of Kevin's hard work in therapy. It's nice to see it paying off in family activities.

Even a sign from Uncle Kevin that he is proud of 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.