Noah Hits The Physical Therapy Trifecta Today!

If you’ve been following our story you may recall that Noah’s pediatric therapy sessions were upgraded this past summer to three times a week.  Since that time they’ve even been re-upgraded to four times a week!  (This little boy works hard!) Thankfully one one of the day we’ve been able to schedule Noah’s occupational and [Read More…]…

Noah Takes His First Step Towards Standing Up!

Today was a big day for Noah at physical therapy.  As you can see in the video he took his first step towards standing up today!  We were thrilled! Pulling up is a huge milestone for any baby, and it’s fun to see Noah take his first steps toward being able to pull himself up [Read More…]…

A Cheap and Easy Fine Motor Skills Exercise To Help Your Child Learn To Grasp

Now that you have mastered the exercise ball it is time to spice things up a bit.  Our therapist doesn’t let Noah just sit around on the ball any more! First, let me talk about one of toys that does a lot more than just bring extra challenges to the exercise ball. One of the [Read More…]…

How Your Child With Down Syndrome Can Learn To Walk Using The Treadmill

Dale Ulrich is the man behind treadmill training, in fact he is the one that helped develop the infant treadmills that are used to help our little ones walk sooner.    He has been known to lend out his treadmills for use to families with children with Down syndrome (hint, hint). If you do any [Read More…]…

Today We Say Goodbye To A Great Physical Therapist

Goodbyes are never fun (unless of course you don’t like the person you’re saying goodbye to!)  Sadly, that isn’t the case with a few goodbyes we have to say over the next few weeks. The first of these goodbyes is Jill.  Jill’s a physical therapy student touring this side of the country doing clinicals.  She worked [Read More…]…