Emma is 4 Months Old & PT Evaluation

What a big day for little Miss Emma. It started off with a physical therapy evaluation to see where she falls in her ability level and what services she will need for the next 6 months. After 6 months we will reevaluate her goals to see what ones have been met and which ones we need to still focus on. Overall it went pretty well. As we suspected she needs to keep working on head control and neck strength. Another concern is her muscle tone. He brain sends too much to her muscles so they become stiff and hard to move. Her legs are doing great but her arms and hands are pretty stiff so we learned some ways to help her with that. We also learned that she will be needing some braces for her hands to help try to get them open more. They will hold her thumb out to encourage more open hands. Children with Lissencephaly their hands can become closed shut forever if you don't stay on top of the therapy to go along with it. Her eye development and social skills (smiling, tracking, giggling etc) seem to be right on for her age level so that was good news. We get the full evaluation and info at our meeting next week but so far we are pretty happy with how things went we feel excited to start physical therapy to help her succeed in anyways that we can. These things wouldn't be possible without everyone's help and donations so thanks for helping us help Emma to Embrace Life and be everything she can be. 💕

Cute video of our little Emma getting so close to laughing. I love her little giggle.  Love you all!

https://youtu.be/q-xr05G7ekI