TEAMWorks Guatemala - Day 3 - April 27, 2014

Today we saw over 100 kids at a community clinic held at a local school before 1:00pm!  Complete chaos broke out early as more kids than expected showed up around 8:00am.  Initially, we started out with two PT/OT stations and two speech stations.  But due to the large number of kids waiting for us, OT's and PT's separated after an hour to try and reach six families at once!  God is good and He placed the kiddos in front of the right therapist today, even with our group separated.  

Some highlights from today.....

Caroline and Allison saw a boy with Autism brought by his grandmother, who was flapping and running around the gym.  They were able to place him on a physioball, reluctantly at first, to help him rock and bounce with more control, and by the third trial he was bouncing independently and demonstrating less self- stimming behaviors!  His grandmother was so grateful.  She asked for our picture and was tearing up!

God also provided perfectly for Charity when she took a piece off of one child's brace that wasn't necessary and was able to apply that piece to the very next child's braces!  Amazing, how he provides when a tiny piece of fabric could have been easily lost in two minutes but was required for the next child she saw!

Kelly was able to provide a little girl with a bright pink thumb splint. The little girl was thrilled to have a splint in her favorite color and left the station waving and blowing kisses.

Speech was able to give group lessons to reach more children. Paige was able to take a large group at once and educate multiple parents on eliciting communication through Milieu therapy.  Sophie was blessed with the opportunity today to help more than five children with severe to profound hearing loss!  Each child was eager to participate and their parents were actively willing to learn, making the experience truly remarkable.

Mike was able to provide families with three chairs and modified 4 others to increase positioning. God provided the perfect chair for a small girl with spina bifida who looked too small for any chairs!  Through Mike and Leo's wheelchair skills and an hour and a half of work, she had the perfect chair to roll out of the gym in!

Thank you for your prayers.  We felt them today amid all of these families!  We shall be visiting two new places tomorrow, one with an Autism Clinic and a new orphanage.  We will also try to see more families that we were not able to get to today as well as visit the first orphanage we worked at in Guatemala, Mama Carmen's!