Well, tomorrow is the big day! Andrew will have his first therapy session with the Brain Balance program tomorrow after school. We are overjoyed with the generosity of all our friends and families. We have officially raised $5420 as of this morning to pay for the initial start up costs with the program. This will cover 36 hours of therapy for Andrew. We can't wait to see how it goes.
For "typical", verbal children the program suggests one hour sessions 3 times a week but with non-verbal children on the autism spectrum they like to start off a bit slower to see how things go. They want to make sure that Andrew stays engaged the entire session and since he has a short attention span we will be going twice a week at 30 minutes per session, but will most likely increase as time goes on. The good news is that no matter how fast or slow you go with the program, the results should be the same. Kids don't "lose" the progress they make. We will update at the end of the week to let you all know how it goes in his first couple of sessions. He has not been a very good boy lately so pray for us that he is cooperative for the therapist!
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