Meet Leticia! Posted about about 7 years ago

Meet Leticia!   I have been seeing Leticia twice a week in our clinic in the Katanga slum since September. Leticia is 2 years old and was referred to our clinic due to an expressive language delay secondary to hydrocephalus. Leticia began therapy communicating her wants and needs through crying and the use of gestures. She is now using single words as well as imitating phrases all the time! Th...

Meet Gloria! Posted about over 7 years ago

                                  Sweet Gloria. Gloria is 6 years old and attends Kampala School for the Physically Handicapped. She does not yet have intelligible words but has lots to say! I see her for therapy every Friday and In this session we strung beads as we worked on verbalizing "mmm" for "more" and "haa" for "help" while signing each word. After our first session introducing signs, G...