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This young girl was incredibly pleased with her DAFOs because she was able to walk with more stability and didn’t need to hold on! She loved the sneakers, too. I often saw her walking about town with more confidence. This adorable lile boy had several orthopedic issues. With the DAFOs and some hip support or a walker, he was able to stand with more stability and was so pleased that he wouldn’t even let his sister see them, since they were “given to ME,” he said. Samantha tries out a pair of DAFO ® 4s, left, and a pair of JumpStart Leap Frogs, right, on two boys at the clinic. 1360 Sunset Avenue Ferndale, WA 98248 ph: 800.848.7332 fax: 877.856.2160 intl: + 00 1 360 543 9306 cascadedafo.com Helping kids lead healthier, happier lives ® Nicaragua On our Nicaragua service visits, we always learn so much from the people there. Our base is Los Pipitos (idiomatic for “lile children” and for that part of Central America). I worked with Indalecio, a health care worker who is part of Los Pipitos family center for children with neurological and muscle disorders. Indalecio is extremely dedicated and well-loved in the community, running his own therapy clinic on Satur- days and travelling each day around the area on his bicycle to visit children. Interestingly, they no longer refer to the children as being “disabled” but as having “different capacities,” which is much more inclusive. We saw children who had diagnoses of polio, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and a variety of neurological or muscle disorders. The health care workers, with very few resources, man- age to make a huge difference to the people they visit. Indalecio is like a sponge, taking in any info I provide and absolutely flying with it. It was so nice to visit more than once: he could request materials that they can’t get there. I was able to use the braces for many children, including a number of JumpStarts and shoe inserts for quite a few children with low tone. They made such a difference. Thanks for your generosity. We were quite an araction for the whole town! —Anne Mele, M.A., OTR Ecuador Our therapy service trip to Ecuador was both fantastic and surreal. I was able to fit a young boy who had a diagnosis of Down syndrome with a pair of PaiBob ® shoe inserts. His family had been trying for a year to raise the money for just a pair of shoe inserts. One 16-year-old girl had no formal diagnosis, but I was able to fit her with hinged DAFOs to give her stability. She can now walk outside with a lile assistance and, finally, play with her siblings. These orthoses are helping families by giving their children more mobility and independence. Thank you, Cascade! —Samantha Stith, PT Letters | Tales from Latin America DD Archives Summer 2009
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This young girl was incredibly pleased with her DAFOs because she was able to walk with more stability and didn’t need to hold on! She loved the sneakers, too. I often saw her walking about town with more confidence.
This adorable little boy had several orthopedic issues. With the DAFOs and some hip support or a walker, he was able to stand with more stability and was so pleased that he wouldn’t even let his sister see them, since they were “given to ME,” he said.
Samantha tries out a pair of DAFO® 4s, left, and a pair of JumpStart Leap Frogs, right, on two boys at the clinic.
1360 Sunset AvenueFerndale, WA 98248
ph: 800.848.7332fax: 877.856.2160
intl: + 00 1 360 543 9306cascadedafo.comHelping kids lead healthier, happier lives®
NicaraguaOn our Nicaragua service visits, we always learn so much from the people there. Our base is Los Pipitos (idiomatic for “little children” and for that part of Central America). I worked with Indalecio, a health care worker who is part of Los Pipitos family center for children with neurological and muscle disorders. Indalecio is extremely dedicated and well-loved in the community, running his own therapy clinic on Satur-days and travelling each day around the area on his bicycle to visit children.
Interestingly, they no longer refer to the children as being “disabled” but as having “different capacities,” which is much more inclusive. We saw children who had diagnoses of polio, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and a variety of neurological or muscle disorders.
The health care workers, with very few resources, man-age to make a huge difference to the people they visit. Indalecio is like a sponge, taking in any info I provide and absolutely flying with it. It was so nice to visit more than once: he could request materials that they can’t get there.
I was able to use the braces for many children, including a number of JumpStarts and shoe inserts for quite a few children with low tone. They made such a difference.
Thanks for your generosity. We were quite an attraction for the whole town! —Anne Mele, M.A., OTR
EcuadorOur therapy service trip to Ecuador was both fantastic and surreal. I was able to fit a young boy who had a diagnosis of Down syndrome with a pair of PattiBob® shoe inserts. His family had been trying for a year to raise the money for just a pair of shoe inserts.
One 16-year-old girl had no formal diagnosis, but I was able to fit her with hinged DAFOs to give her stability. She can now walk outside with a little assistance and, finally, play with her siblings.
These orthoses are helping families by giving their children more mobility and independence. Thank you, Cascade! —Samantha Stith, PT
Letters | Tales from Latin America
DD Archives Summer 2009
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