She can run. She can jump. She can climb steps without pulling on a railing or hand. She is a physical therapy graduate. Friday was Charlotte's last session. I was not sad to be done, and Charlotte certainly is just fine being done as well. But I do appreciate all the work and patience our Physical Therapist brought to each session in working with Charlotte. Knowledge and expertise is one thing, applying it to your work with a two year old is an entirely different animal all together. Charlotte was very fortunate to have the physical therapist she had.
So Charlotte is nowhere near at age level with all her skills, but her physical therapist felt she had enough core skills and strength in place that she will catch up on her own with a home program and some music therapy (hopefully we'll start that this month. I am hammering out the schedule with the potential music therapist). And then in six months we go back to the clinic for a physical therapy check-in/re-assessment to make sure Charlotte's gross motor skills are still on track.
Anyway, here is Charlotte a day after her graduation, squatting and getting up using only her legs, running, and climbing steps. These are all things she could not do when she started physical therapy.
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