Kevin's Healing Journey: Winter 2019

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Winter 2019

This winter we finally learned how to do weekends together as a family. After being on the program for 10 years and doing a Saturday morning program it has taken us (maybe me) a few years to learn to relax and enjoy Saturday mornings. It helped that we kept our Christmas tree up until Super Bowl weekend and Kevin would ask to watch the Polar Express movie...every Saturday morning. After the tree came down...it switched to Moana every Saturday morning. Jon reads the paper and we can chat and quote the movie together. I'll be looking forward to better weather when we can sit together on the front porch on Saturday mornings.

On the other hand...Kevin's been acting just like a typical kid his age by spending less time with his parents during his evening free time. When Kevin does decide to join us for a TV show in the evening, we watch a recorded Wheel of Fortune...still a family favorite after all these years. Kevin thinks it's so funny when he uses his Talker to say GO FAST DAD during the commercial to fast forward...sometimes the commercials are over by the time he says it all on the Talker...but it is very entertaining to watch him giggle over it. When the show is over, Kevin says OFF to turn off the tv and BED. Good family entertainment!

Don't let the Crocodile bite you

Playing ball in the house!

Drawing lines on window and cleaning.

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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.