Day 12

Nothing really major to report today. It was business as usual. We continue to see K’s strength and confidence grow daily.

Our focus for the next 3 days will be 2 fold. 1) to continue pushing him in his daily sessions. 2) to discuss his home therapy program. As we prepare to leave NAPA it is time to learn what we need to do to continue K on this amazing path we have started on.

This 3 week program has been a spring broad for him but it will require us to work with him daily at home to continue the growth. Honestly, historically I have not been the best at having a strong home therapy program. It’s easy when you have trained professionals doing it for you, but going home and doing it yourself is much harder. For one thing kids never listen to their parents the same way they do their therapists…that’s just fact. Another thing is that we have busy lives back home.

Here our sole focus was therapy. When we go back home we have school, jobs, therapy, doctors appointments, and just life in general to get back to. We can’t do 4 hours a day of therapy (and we aren’t expected to). Figuring out a good, realistic, home routine will be key. After all the work K has put in these 3 weeks I am determined to figure out something that works with our schedule because there is no way I want to lose all this progress he has made!

Side note: my husband was able to FaceTime in for about 15 minutes during his PT session today which was super fun. It was nice for him to see live what goes on here daily.