You may have noticed at one point in today’s video Noah was motivated by a paper towel…yep, a paper towel. It’s a lot like playing with the box that the toy came in rather than the toy itself. Thank goodness I have these at home. I don’t seem to be using them for cleaning, so motivating [Read More…]…

You may have noticed at one point in today’s video Noah was motivated by a paper towel…yep, a paper towel. It’s a lot like playing with the box that the toy came in rather than the toy itself. Thank goodness I have these at home. I don’t seem to be using them for cleaning, so motivating my child it is…!

Motivators are essential in Noah’s therapy and development. They help turn hard work into play, core work into entertainment, and frowns into smiles.

Noah’s 9 months old in this video and his physical and occupational therapists are working hard to help him develop his core strength which is important for sitting (which he’s already mastered) and crawling (which he hasn’t mastered…..yet!) A few days ago I posted a video of Noah trying to move forward as I held [Read More…]…

We are back to physical therapy today and on the treadmill. They are trying to get Noah to be on there for 8 minutes each day we that he has physical therapy (which at this point is twice a week.) As Rick mentioned before, Dr. Ulrich is doing fantastic research to help children born with Down [Read More…]…

If you’ve been watching us on the news segments you’re probably wondering if Noah had a super developmental growth spurt. 🙂  Nope…he hasn’t.  You’re just getting a 4 month sneak peek.  We’re in the process of catching up on Noah’s daily one minute videos; life happens and some days it’s hard to get a video up. So bear with [Read More…]…