When Noah first became mobile he started off with an "army" crawl. He would wiggle himself along on his belly as he didn't have the stength to bear weight on his right arm/shoulder. The initial army crawl phase was short lived and he quickly became very proficient with his butt scoot. As we had posted last year he butt scooted for quite awhile and then progressed right to walking. Unfortuantely Noah never learned how to do a regular crawl. I had always hoped that at some point we could teach him and this Fall he actually started to show signs that he might be able to. Some children with strokes actually skip crawling all together and have a lot of difficutly with it because of the coordination between the right and left sides. This Fall he made great gains in his coordination and it was at this time that he started to see a private PT. The main goal was to help Noah learn how to crawl and to help him gain more confidence with climbing stairs. Well the extra PT has been amazing (not to mention Noah loves her!) and the following is a video of him crawling. Brad and I even noticed today that he does it on is own without prompting. So awesome!!
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