Ghana Family Retreat with Joni and Friends

The Family Retreat went well and the therapy team was able to work with each family to give suggestions and answer questions.  We hope that each family will have some new skills that they can use with their child to help improve function and make their lives alittle easier.

Some of the highlights were:

Watching Dorothy, a beautiful 10 year old girl with arthrogyposis, figure out how to do EVERYTHING her brothers were doing with a big smile on her face.

Picking out and hand fitting a wheelchair for Sylvester that will now allow him to sit up and join in to the activities with the other kids.

And when Parle, a 12 year old girl with cerebral palsy, who cried big tears when I tried to show her parents how to do ankle stretches, started laughing at me when the PT Jenny showed her parents by stretching my ankles and I started to "cry" too.

What wonderful kids!  I hope to be able to come back to Ghana again someday soon and work with them and their families again.