“As busy and hectic as your day may be, it’s extremely important to carryover whatever is worked on during therapy,” shares Isabelle. “He loves Miss Morgan! His favorite thing about therapy is probably the jungle gym and obstacle courses and of course the swing.” Stefan shares that he and Isabelle bought a similar swing for their basement and have created sensory room and play area for Christian so they can continue with at-home activities to reinforce what he works on in his therapy sessions. Christian was always so much fun to work with and his sweet smile always made my day!” After about a year, he was able to feed himself with both a fork and a spoon with only a little bit of help. I got the chance to treat him again a few years later, when he was almost 3, and we started working on accepting liquids from a cup and feeding himself with utensils. During our first 5 months together, we got to the point where he was consistently feeding himself with his fingers and picking up his cup. When he came to me the first time, around 15 months old, he wasn’t able to feed himself at all.
“Our main focus during both episodes of care was self-feeding, which he made amazingprogress with.
“I have known Christian and his family for about 3 and a half years now and I’ve had the pleasure of working with them through two episodes of care,” shares Morgan Buckley, Occupational Therapist. “He was going into Pre-K and I knew we needed that diagnosis to get the right services set up for him at school.”Ĭhristian began outpatient occupational therapy with Morgan Buckley at Children’ Specialized Hospital’s Mountainside location. With Christian’s low muscle tone, he didn’t begin walking until after his second birthday, and when Stefan and Isabelle brought him back for his annual visit on May 13, 2019, they received the official autism diagnosis. At that point they learned that he demonstrated hypotonia, or low-muscle tone, which contributed to his not crawling or walking. We came up with some sensory and feeding goals and started outpatient therapies a few weeks later,” shares Isabelle. “He loved using all the sensory equipment, including the swing, slide, exercise ball and ball pit. In February 2018, Stefan and Isabelle brought Christian in for a formal Occupational Therapy evaluation at CSH. He was back on pureed food and the only way we could get him to take in liquids was if we spoon-fed him.” Once he recovered from the cold, nothing changed and he was refusing foods and his sippy cups. “But he came down with a bad cold and he didn’t want to eat any solid foods. “Christian was always a good bottle drinker and eater, even showing interest in feeding himself pretty early on,” shares Stefan. Isabelle is a licensed speech therapist and during that time began doing all she could to assist with Christian’s feeding. Traeger, the first thing we did was have Christian observed, along with having a hearing test to make sure that his hearing was developing and not contributing to his speech delay.”Īlong with the speech delay, Christian had also developed food and texture aversions as he neared his second birthday. We saw signs including hand flapping, covering ears, and high-pitch screams, etc.”īoth Stefan and Isabelle were familiar with Children’s Specialized Hospital, as Isabelle’s mom, Olivia Encarnacion, was a nurse at the Mountainside and New Brunswick locations for over twenty years, so they felt very comfortable coming in. “But in the back of our minds we always knew that there was something happening. “We brought our concerns to our doctors, and of course they want to hope for the best,” shares Stefan. She also recommended he see a neurologist at Children’s Specialized Hospital (CSH) for a more formal evaluation. When they went to Christian’s 12-month check-up in the fall of 2017, Christian’s pediatrician recommended he begin Early Intervention Services, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and developmental intervention to work on his fine motor skills. As Christian neared his first birthday, his parents noticed that he wasn’t responding to his name or making eye contact, and was behind in other milestones, including crawling and speech. Christian Rosales was born on Octoto parents Stefan and Isabelle Rosales.
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