So as promised I'll be doing weekly posts on different sort of equipment ,ideas and things regarding cerebral palsy ,special needs and disability is in general
Today's post is about something that I discovered on the Internet by accident. It's called an Upsee. As it can imagine the name crying here a bit of a clue what it is. It's a piece of equipment that you step onto your child and then attach your child to yourself. This may sound straightforward but you're touching your child to the lower part of your body..... And this is when it becomes revolutionary this equipment is designed for your child to experience the motion and movement of walking ......so as you walk your child will walk with you!!!
Anyone that knows me they would know that I want Arjan to walk one day - whether it's with the frame or without I just wanted to experience how it feels to walk. So you can imagine how excited we are about this product.
I haven't actually seen this product in the physical form but have seen a lot of demo videos including the video made by the inventor of the Upsee Debby Alnatan. Her video was only two minutes long but it just reduced me down to tears. The reason why she invented the Upsee is because when she had her second child Walter she was told by the physiotherapist that her child and understand what his legs were , which obviously as any parent would feel quite distraught and you feel quite helpless because you don't know how to help your child. She didn't let this keep her down for too long and started to look at different ways of helping Walter understand what his legs were - that was the beginning of the Upsee.
Just goes to show if you're determined you can actually do anything. And as a determine parent she's not only invented a product that will actually help her own child but thousands of children around the world experience something that we take for granted on the day-to-day basis
Please do take a moment and have a look at this product . As really research done to this and if you've got a child who's got good head control is this might be the perfect product for you and then especially to bond even more as you'll be so close to each other
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