Gracie started horse riding therapy a couple of weeks ago. Hippotherapy is used to help kids with all sorts of disabilities but for Gracie it will help her balance and strengthen her torso! She really liked it but unfortunately we will have to take a break from it for 5 weeks as we are leaving for Kansas Tuesday to start her Hyperbaric Therapy and her Therasuit/Intense Physical Therapy. She also started a new feeding/speech/occupational therapy center a few weeks ago and we are excited with the new ideas they have and she seems to really like her therapists there! You never know....we have had therapists where she just doesn't click with them and just cries the whole time and you have to move on to finding a new therapist. But we really like this new place and she has been going twice a week for 2hrs each time and has does really well! Of course we are having to take a break from this therapy as well until we return from Kansas...but when we come home we will be working with her speech therapist (Julie) to fit her for a new talking device called a DynaVox. She will be able to use this little computer as her voice...it is installed with a talking tool software and she can push the buttons on the touch screen and it will talk for her. It is small and portable so we can take it everywhere with her! We are very excited about this for her because she is sooooo smart and has so much to say and they have tested her with one at therapy and she can use it like you wouldn't believe! The DynaVox is a talking tool, computer and dvd player in one, so she will be able to play her computer games on it and watch movies, etc!
Well, check back soon....I hope to be posting more often with this hbot and intense therapy for the next few weeks...hope I will have lots of goods news to post! Here are links to pics from Gracie's horse therapy and from a recent little trip to the MN Children's Museum.
dani :-)
Sunday, August 3, 2008
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