Kevin's Healing Journey: Bike Aboard

Saturday, September 28, 2019

Bike Aboard - September 27, 2019

I love where we live! We live near the Cuyahoga Valley National Park which offers lots of hiking trails and an all accessible Towpath Trail along the Ohio & Erie Canal (from Cleveland to Canton). The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad offers a Bike Aboard. Ride the train one direction and bike back to your starting point. I really wanted to do this with Kevin's new bike while we walk with him. Jon took a Friday off work so it would be less crowded than the weekend. We boarded the train at the Akron Northside station and got to ride the train a few miles to Big Bend. They unloaded Kevin's bike and we started what was supposed to be 3 miles back from Big Bend Trailhead to the Akron Northside Station where our car was parked. I thought this was a fair trek for Kevin and the first couple miles were very scenic on this new part of the towpath for us. But after we arrived at Memorial Parkway Trailhead there was a construction detour that led us through a neighborhood and added an extra mile or more onto our trek...which included 3 hills, one that was pretty steep. This is of course towards the end of the journey and so I helped Kevin by pushing him on his bike up the hills. My watch said that we walked/biked 4.28 miles and it took us 1 hour and 49 minutes (avg.pace 25 minute/mile). So I guess now we now know Kevin can bike longer distances...get ready kid!

Odd that we didn't take any photos during the two mile construction detour.

He did it...and we beat the train back LOL!

Jon and Kevin were wearing their 765 Steam Train t-shirts from last year's train ride with Grandee & Pap.
The steam train was in town again last Sunday and we got to see it pull out of the station.

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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.