PT in the Park

So we have the greatest Physical Therapist now through Children's Therapy Center in Woodland. We are funding it through our medical insurance since the school district did not provide it last year and at CCS our therapist went on maternity leave and was supposed to come back in July but I have not heard anything from her yet, plus I was not happy with her and they cut his therapy to one time a month.

So we now have Rika who is awesome, she has so much energy, she just goes and goes with Evan from the time she walks in the door to the time she leaves.


Here is Evan trying to swing on the bars, they are
working on him holding with both hands.



Going down the slide

Trying out the tire swing, he was not
thrilled with this, Evan does not like
spinning, he likes regular swinging but not the
spinning or places where he feels like he will fall or something.

Ahh, the special needs swing at the park, this worked out better,
yet another opportunity for him to use two hands, he was doing pretty
well trying to use lefty.

So we were at the park at 9am and there was nobody else there,
except for the squirrels, there were tons of squirrels and Evan was
very interested in finding them, so Rika showed him how to stick a
branch through the wood to look for the squirrels, it was really cute.

The park we went to is called Miwuk park and it is an accessible playground. Not as great as the Kloss park which has the wheelchair swing and ramps up to the slides and such. But this park is all wood and has steps and platforms that a child in a wheelchair or walker could access parts of the playground. With Evan I get really scared at parks because he is not able to go down the fire pole or climb up the other contraptions that they have. At this park there is not anything like that, it is a fancy park with slides and such but they are accessed by the steps or stairs that would be easy for a child who is crawling, or walking or even for a parent who is carrying a child who is not yet able to do those things. This is a park where Evan would be able to play with other kids and I would not have to be there right behind him the whole time. I really look for parks like this so that I can take him and still be able to tend to Sophia, and a place that Gabriel thinks is cool also, so now I can add Miwuk Park and Kloss park to our list of Evan-friendly parks.

I am also really excited about our therapist Rika, I just cannot say enough about her, she is going to write a report to support my request for the school district to provide PT for Evan. Ideally, they would just pay for her but who knows what will happen. I think she will even attend his IEP which is great.

We have the IEP on August 28th