About 9 months ago, we saw a rolfer for the first time. He did a LOT of work inside BC’s mouth and whammo, within a few weeks, he was saying a LOT more. It was amazing.
We’ve been meaning to go back for ages, but we just ran out of days last year.
I usually declare any holiday period to be totally therapy free, but the other day, as I filled in the calendar with what our schedule will be like once term starts, I realised that it was actually in my best interest to break my therapy free rule, just a little, to ease the pressure once we get into the regular grind.
It seems best to do a handful of sessions of this kind of therapy and then take a break.
I love the guy we see.
I love how well he works with BC and how clearly he respects him – straight away, as soon as we entered the room he was down on his knees so he was at eye level with BC, chatting to him, getting him to laugh, praising him.
And reminding ME just how far he has come since our first visits there 9 months ago. At that time, the words ‘mum’, ‘up’, ‘home’ and a hand full of others were pretty much it.
Now, I get sentences like this “I need go toilet”, “where going today?”, “what doing tomorrow?”, “I got rumble in my tummy”.
Yes, he still needs a lot of work on his articulation. Yes, most people can probably still only understand a smallish percentage of what he says. BUT, we’re getting there. We’re making progress. We’ve got a lot of reasons to be confident about how much speech he’ll develop in 2009.
There’s no magic bullet for CP, nothing that’s going to fix everything in one big hit (wow, do I wish there was!) but I love what alternative therapies can offer. I absolutely believe they have their place and just wish there was MORE ongoing research into them.
We’ll keep looking for new things to try, keep working on our busy schedule, and keep seeing people who care about kids like BC and want to help them achieve their best.
So we’re rolfing our way into the New year!!
