Kevin's Healing Journey: Biking in a Circle of Love

Friday, May 10, 2019

Biking in a Circle of Love

Last summer, my sister ran into a friend from high school. Her son, Kyle is about the same age as Kevin and has similar needs. During one of our visits I had Kevin's adapted trike with us and offered to let Kyle try it out...and he loved it! My nephew Ryan chose to create an adapted trike bike for Kyle as his senior project for a high school engineering design and development class. I hope you can click (or copy and paste) on the links below that show pictures and the best heart-warming, feel-good video you will watch of Kyle and his family receiving the bike from Ryan and his friend. You don't want to miss Kyle's smile and laughter of joy!

It's probably not a coincidence that yesterday...about the same time that Ryan was presenting Kyle with his new adapted trike...Kevin and I returned the adapted trike that he had outgrown to the family that gave it to us. We met when our boys were babies! They adopted a daughter and thought she might benefit from learning to ride on it. While we were there I told her the story about how this adapted trike has given so much to both these boys...even if indirectly for Kyle. She shared with the me the story of how she originally bought the bike from a family in New York and the trip she and her son took with her parents to pick it up.

I love to get a small glimpse of how God works!

It's all a bike wheel of love!

https://www.facebook.com/ButlerTech/videos/590184111491316/

https://www.butlertech.org/adaptive-bike-created-by-bt-engineering-student/

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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.