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My name is Ariana T and my son, Anthony (Tony) has multiple qualifying DDD diagnoses. He has complex behavioral and therapeutic needs, but has demonstrated progress through his therapies that have allowed him to gain skills he otherwise would not have had, thus reducing the cost of providing future services to him. For the past
Some Brief Notes of Gratitude To Sadie, Tony’s Former Lead NMT Therapist We are so very grateful for your positive attitude during your time working with our son. We appreciate your patience, your flexibility, your professionalism, and everything you contributed to his growth. Even though I personally didn’t get to witness your sessions because your
I spoke very minimal Spanish when our little man was first placed with and adopted into our family. What motivated me initially to continue to learn was our son, because I had wanted him to be able to have a conversation with his birth mom should he ever choose to want to meet and talk
I had stepped out of the house during the last few minutes of physical therapy earlier this week to take out the trash. When I came back in, I noticed Tony was limping as he walked over to his speech device and asked me to help him. Apparently he had used his foot to move
I had a series of revelations recently about what some of my more significant stressors are and how they are impacting my health. The contrast was made by comparing some blood pressure readings, interestingly enough. A couple of months ago I needed to take Tony in to a follow up I had with my allergist
If you are not already a subscriber to this blog or on my e-mail list, I know exactly why you are here. You read a news article several years ago with the story of a woman who wanted to raise awareness that a dent or dimple in the breast can cause cancer. I definitely think
To Tony’s Entire Therapy Team: Thank You… Each and every one of you took time out of your busy schedules in some way to either show up at meetings or write documentation to help our son’s educational advocate better understand his needs or to speak to those needs directly to school district representatives. This has
My body was humming cheerily this morning after jogging nearly 20 minutes of our outing to practice tricycle skills. I just finished my second cup of coffee, and it makes me think about how much I have to be grateful for even when things are busy. Two long years it has taken to build up
A happy moment can bloom more quickly than expected from the seeds of hope. In my gut, I felt like Arrowhead was the place we needed to do our crowd work with Tony on March 31st. I noticed as we were pulling in that the Funbox park was up and functional, and I told Andy
A few years ago, before the start of the pandemic, Miss Emily and I were trying to work with Tony to improve his tricycling skills during a habilitative therapy session. At that time, we were still experiencing easily a dozen or more attempts from him to run off per any type of outing. There was
