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High Pointe Therapy

12 hours ago

We love success stories! 💙💚Happy Autism Awareness Day
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3 years ago Felicity was diagnosed with Autism. Not only was her diagnosis intimidating, but she was also given a Level 3 Dependency, which is the highest level of need. Getting her diagnosis was heartbreaking because we knew the stigma that followed with it, but we and her doctor were confident that with therapy she would climb down the scale for her Level of Dependency.

When we moved to Clarksville, her pediatrician referred us to High Pointe Therapy where Felicity started her journey through various therapies.
🩵 Felicity couldn't communicate because she couldn't enunciate and what few words she could say were solely repetition. She was evaluated with Ms. Patrice and we were educated on echolalia; a speech disorder defined by the repetition of words or phrases spoken by someone else. We're now over a year in Speech Therapy, and Felicity can have basic, cognitive conversations with her vocabulary expanding every single day. We absolutely loves Ms. Patrice, and y'all really don't understand the respect we have for her.
🩵 Felicity COULDN'T eat a normal meal. Various textures made her gag, so she wouldn't try new foods. Then with her comfort foods, she would overstuff her mouth and make herself gag, so she would only eat a small portion before having to call it quits. She also couldn't drink out of a straw at 4 years old. After working with Ms. Tracie for months, Felicity could drink through straws! Tracie made eating fun and gave Felicity confidence to try new textures and foods. She learned to "Blow Rockets" so if her mouth was too full she would spit it out rather than gag herself. Who would have thought parents could be so happy about their kid spitting their food out? Now we just have typical dinner arguments about not getting McDonald's or pizza every night because we were BOTH given tools to help make eating successful.
🩵 Felicity struggled with fine motor skills and couldn't use support tools, so she began Occupational Therapy with Ms. Allison and has continued it with Ms. Kim. We were taught that her basically skipping the crawling stage and instead walking was a disservice to her back muscles, which are necessary in fine motor movements. Felicity has learned to continually hold AND be able to use her utensils and pencils. She's able to write her name, write all of the letters of the alphabet, write the numbers 1-20, and draw basic shapes! She and Ms. Kim are currently working on hand-eye coordination, and last week she was able to hit the tether ball with BOTH HANDS ON THE BAT!!!! She's connecting those hits now y'all!

Felicity started Preschool last year and she was placed in a special needs class with Ms. Becky. She was so shy and didn't know how to interact with other kids. She played alongside them, but didn't want to play like they did. Seeing that as a parent is heartbreaking because she wanted friends so badly, but she just didn't know how to interact with her classmates. This year, she's a completely different kid. She went to her first birthday party, she comes home telling us about playing with her friends, and her teacher has confirmed that she's the first friend to anyone new in the classroom.

Felicity has come SO FAR, and her diagnosis has only motivated us all to make sure she will never be stigmatized. SHE WILL KNOW INDEPENDENCE, something society pretends those on the spectrum are ignorant of. STOP the stigma and START educating yourself and those around you! 💞 ... See MoreSee Less

High Pointe Therapy

2 weeks ago

Please continue to share and get the word out about our SLP positions! CFs are welcome to apply! highpointetherapy-tptp.icims.com/jobs/search?hashed=-625887672

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