A Child’s DREAM, Baguio’s first pediatric therapy center for children with special needs offers developmental & behavioral pediatric assessments, speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy assessments and sessions, special education tutorials, home programs. We welcome parents, teachers, children in workshops to understand & help those with autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, behavioral problems, cerebral palsy, developmental language disorders, down syndrome, giftedness, hearing and vision problems, learning disabilities, mental retardation, sensory impairments. DREAM therapists are sent to both local and international training. Top speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists oversee continuous training of therapists.
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Cerebral Palsy : A Story of Hope – Feb 2008
| Written by Joy Angelica Subido |
| Tuesday, 05 February 2008 18:03 |
| Forty-year-old Gerardo “Gerry” Mariano remembers when he acquired cerebral palsy. At two-and-a-half years old, he fell out the window of his family’s nipa hut home and sustained a brain injury. Since then, the condition has hindered his body movements. “I was called the drunken dancer; walking with crutches and steel braces,” he relates. Still, he remains unfazed by the physical difficulties that he has to contend with. As administrative financial officer of a non-government institution, he lives a productive life and is married to Marlene who is also afflicted with the same developmental disability. They are doting parents to a bright, normally-abled child and are living proof that with the right mindset, one can overcome the obstacles brought about by cerebral palsy. The couple’s attitude and determination to live a normal life is imbued with such an inspiring quality, in fact, that people have taken notice. Their story was once portrayed in a popular television show. |
