This is a long overdue post. I have been so busy in supporting my eldest, Ken, with his reports and projects for he is already a grade six student so the school focuses in preparing them in entering Secondary Education next school year. It just means more reports, more projects and more activities!
Vacation is over!
My youngest Joaqui also had a two-month vacation from attending his Occupational Therapy sessions at University of the Philippines, Manila. I have mentioned on my previous post that he was diagnosed to with Global Developmental Delay Syndrome, one of a few complications for being an eight-month premature baby boy.
My youngest Joaqui also had a two-month vacation from attending his Occupational Therapy sessions at University of the Philippines, Manila. I have mentioned on my previous post that he was diagnosed to with Global Developmental Delay Syndrome, one of a few complications for being an eight-month premature baby boy.
We go to UP Manila every Thursday morning. They call it “UP Camp”. It is an institution that conducts a very affordable therapy sessions for the indigent both children and adults with special needs. It is run by the UP Faculty who’s the main goal is to help the special people who doesn’t have the capability to be treated at expensive hospitals. They are trying to sustain the program from the so little amount collected from the treatment fees and asking donations from the kind-hearted sponsors.
UP Manila allotted an area for the treatments of pediatric patients and adults separately. It is a one-is-to-one teacher-student per therapy session. The one who conducts the therapy is the on-the-job training students from the respective courses supervised by licensed therapists and nurses around. Every patient is assessed with the Developmental Pediatrician from Philippine General Hospital and referred to the UP Camp for the evaluation before the proper treatment.
I must say that it is not easy to enter the camp and be treated as other people might think. You have to undergo a long process especially in waiting for an available slot because there are too many indigent parents of these people with disabilities who are also waiting for their turn. There is a first come first served basis so you might as well wait for several months, sometimes years, to be given a slot.
UP Manila allotted an area for the treatments of pediatric patients and adults separately. It is a one-is-to-one teacher-student per therapy session. The one who conducts the therapy is the on-the-job training students from the respective courses supervised by licensed therapists and nurses around. Every patient is assessed with the Developmental Pediatrician from Philippine General Hospital and referred to the UP Camp for the evaluation before the proper treatment.
I must say that it is not easy to enter the camp and be treated as other people might think. You have to undergo a long process especially in waiting for an available slot because there are too many indigent parents of these people with disabilities who are also waiting for their turn. There is a first come first served basis so you might as well wait for several months, sometimes years, to be given a slot.
According to the Developmental Pediatrician of my son, Joaqui needs an OT and a Speech Therapy because he is also delayed in that aspect. I started to place an appointment at UP Camp last August of 2008 for his OT and luckily we just waited for only 2 months to be given a slot. We are now going on our third year of OT sessions on October.
I haven’t placed an appointment for his Speech Therapy supposedly it must have been started along with his OT because he doesn’t have a hearing aid on that time yet. Joaqui is also hearing impaired so having the use of hearing aid is a requirement before we start the Speech Therapy.
We acquired his expensive hearing aid only in the year 2010. Once we got that instrument, it is the only time when we started to be in the waiting list. Well, unluckily, we are waiting for an available slot for almost a year now. Hopefully, in God’s will, we might get it this year.
I haven’t placed an appointment for his Speech Therapy supposedly it must have been started along with his OT because he doesn’t have a hearing aid on that time yet. Joaqui is also hearing impaired so having the use of hearing aid is a requirement before we start the Speech Therapy.
We acquired his expensive hearing aid only in the year 2010. Once we got that instrument, it is the only time when we started to be in the waiting list. Well, unluckily, we are waiting for an available slot for almost a year now. Hopefully, in God’s will, we might get it this year.
...and he's a smart little boy according to his teachers. Great job, Joaqui! Keep it up!
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