Miracle
Monday
Miracle
Monday… because who doesn't love miracles?
Today we want to share this heart-warming
letter from Mary Ann, the mother of one of Easter Seals Treasure Coast Early
Steps’ clients.
Josué was initially evaluated by Treasure Coast Early
Steps at 2 months of age and was found to have low muscle tone, stiffness in
his legs and occasional tremoring/clonus and compensatory posturing and
transitions due to this. He began working with the physical therapist from the
Primary Service Provider Team. She demonstrated the exercises we were to focus
on throughout each week and how to add them to the little things we do as a
family each day. Our PT Primary Provider was fun and provided our family with
information and weekly progress sheets. At the age of 14 months, Josué began to
walk during one of his therapy sessions and we were able to catch it on video!
It was a wonderful moment to share as a team!
At 15 months we noticed that he stopped using the
few words he had, so we added a speech therapist to our regular visits.. At 20
months Josué began speech therapy with a combination of sign language and play
therapy. His wonderful speech therapist, has worked with our family in our
native language, which is Spanish. She is a conscientious, soft-spoken,
fun-loving young lady who is totally committed to helping us enable Josué to
communicate. He learned many signs in a short period of time and used them to
make meaningful, creative, and specific communication. As his oral language
skills have progressed, he has slowly stopped using sign language, but he feels
comfortable using sign language as a means of communication in unfamiliar
situations.
As we come closer to his third birthday, I am proud
of his accomplishments and extremely grateful to The Lord for the marvelous,
caring people who have come into our lives in the form of Early Steps
therapists and family service coordinators who are only a phone call away and
who have become part of our extended family.
Respectfully yours,
Mary Ann
We
hope this launches a great week for you. Please share your inspirational
stories with us. Don’t forget to submit any questions you may have in the
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