As businesses and the world began to shut down in March 2020, The Warren Center made sure to continue providing critical therapies as safely and as best as we could. Even if that meant NOT being physically there for physical therapy. For Eva and her family, who spent over a year receiving physical therapy ONLY over a computer screen, shut downs didn’t stop them from succeeding! When Eva finished her physical therapy with The Warren […]
Read More →Juan M.’s Story: The Joy of Apples and Bananas
on January 10, 2022in Child Story, Testimonials
Ask any group of children about one of their favorite nursery rhymes, and you are likely to hear the song “Apples and Bananas” among them. Most children enjoy reciting the words as well as eating apples and bananas as snacks. For the family of Juan Martinez, however, these lyrics roused anxiety since Juan struggled to say the words of the song or even consume these snacks. Despite his best attempts at communicating, Juan’s challenges left […]
Read More →Please Don’t Stop the Music: Changing Lives One Child at a Time
on September 17, 2021in Child Story
Amy Spawn writes: Amelia, found herself in a place she never thought she would be, in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with her son, Gad, born 10 weeks premature. She had two older children and those pregnancies went smoothly but here she was gazing at her son trying to disseminate all the information being given to her. The days went by and to create some normalcy in her life Amelia would leave the NICU […]
Read More →Gadiel’s Story: Success in Communication Through Expertise at The Warren Center
on September 14, 2021in Child Story, Testimonials
Born prematurely at 31 weeks, Gadiel weighed about 2 pounds at birth and his condition would require that he remain in the hospital for 5 months. Due to his premature birth, Gadiel had not yet gained the ability to swallow, so surgeons inserted a G-Tube to feed him. “I cried all day because I couldn’t see him or be with him,” Esmeralda says regarding her son. “I know that he had probes and tubes. I […]
Read More →Ira’s Story: Overcoming Separation Stress and Food Fears Through Expert Care
on September 13, 2021in Child, Child Story, Testimonials
Although she was 22 months old during the initial consultation, Ira could only eat purees in exchange for a reward of watching her iPad screen. Though she would eat a few bites of puree, Ira still preferred breastmilk instead of solid food. Ira frequently gagged in her attempts to eat textured food and ultimately refused to swallow non-textured food. Ira’s mother, Madhu Selvaraj, found it difficult to work from home due to Ira’s inconsolable crying […]
Read More →David’s Story: A Supportive Environment for Children to Shine
on September 13, 2021in Child, Child Story, Testimonials
The process of searching for the best pace for David to receive therapy services was very disenchanting for Ursula. He demonstrated global delays, and evaluations often cited gross motor skills as the most significant type of delay. After much research, she decided that The Warren Center’s Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) program could provide David with the intervention services he needed and the emotional support they both needed. Through his enrollment in ECI at The Warren […]
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