Mariana’s Unstoppable Gains in Reading, Walking and Talking! (Trisomy 21)
When Mariana’s mother was pregnant, a blood test report showed that the chances of them having a baby girl with Down’s Syndrome was 98%. Medical opinion discouraged parents from continuing with the pregnancy. However, parents were determined and from the moment they learned of the probable diagnosis, mother started her research to help with her baby’s development. Her research introduced her to the books written by Glenn Doman.
Parents started the Doman MethodTM when Mariana was seven months old. At the time, Mariana was hypotonic and could not move across the floor on her own as babies do at this age. Parents made sure that Mariana was given a lot of opportunities to learn how to crawl on her belly on the Inclined Floor so that she could gain mobility.
They followed with care the recommended Doman MethodTM Nutrition Plan. They supported Mariana’s mobility development, as recommended when she began to creep on her hands and knees, with the help of the quad device. The quad device prevents young children from sitting between their legs in the “W” position, which is bad for their hip, knee and ankle joints, and encourages them to move forward on their hands and knees. With this simple program, Mariana started moving more and more. She was alert and her parents observed that she was more aware of her environment.
Parents felt that they had made the right choice in educating themselves and learning about important tools to apply as a treatment plan to help Mariana’s development.
Mariana has been on the Doman MethodTM program for nearly 4 years. At her most recent online appointment at Doman International, Mariana demonstrated 5 major milestone wins! While on the program she has learned how to crawl on her belly, then to creep on her hands and knees in a perfect cross pattern, and she began walking at 24 months of age. Mariana can now walk in all different environments outside the home. This gives her a Creeping and Walking Milestone Win.
She loves her Doman MethodTM Reading Program and can now read more than a 100 single words. Parents share that this ability greatly impresses people they meet! Marianita, as her parents lovingly call her, is above her age level in reading and understanding. She can easily follow her daily schedule. She makes deals with her parents to get what she wants like any child at her age-level and intuits different social situations to respond to them appropriately. She fully understands two spoken languages. She can understand simple time concepts of now, later or tomorrow and as young as she is, she can patiently wait up to 30 minutes when parents need her to wait! She has started to speak during the last year. She can now say hundreds of words and communicate in simple sentences spontaneously.
These are her Reading, Comprehension, and Speech Milestone Wins!
The staff at Doman International are also very happy to learn that Mariana has had no illness, not even a sniffle, in the past six months. We take this opportunity to congratulate Mariana and her family for their beautiful efforts!
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