Milestone Moment: Aiden

When Aiden first began Occupational Therapy and Aquatic Therapy, he struggled with rhetoric, writing, and eating certain foods. He first started at PMC nearly four years ago, and has made incredible progress in the time that he has been here!

Occupational therapists, Colleen Slaton and Stephanie Baldwin, both worked with Aiden on various skills, including trying new foods, swimming and confidence in the water, and conversation and handwriting.

Aiden's Aquatic-based Occupational Therapy focused on body strength and coordination, following directions and confidence. After such a positive experience swimming at PMC, Aiden will be swimming for Special Olympics for Washington County this summer!

"Aiden has made so much progress in aquatic therapy! He consistently shows up ready to participate and has made great progress following directions, his overall confidence and improving his upper and lower body strength, coordination and reciprocal arm and leg movements in the pool! Way to go Aiden!"

- Colleen Slaton, OTR/L

Occupational Therapy can help with writing and rhetoric through not only visual motor skills and hand and grip strength, but also learning to focus and follow directions. OT's can also help with feeding selectivity through gradual exposure, focusing on the sensory aspects of eating and new food choices, such as texture and smell.

"Aiden is a very, very special part of the PMC family.  He has achieved so many milestones it is hard to name them all.  He has done all the hard work and has learned to try new foods, copy words and sentences legibly, be able to move independently around the entire clinic, follow directions , interact in games with other children and more.  Aiden is an empathetic, kind person of whom the sky is his limit! We hope to see you around! We will never forget you Aiden! Congratulations!!!!"

- Stephanie Baldwin, OTR-L

"We have been bringing Aiden to PMC for about 4 years now. Not only has he learned new things, but the last few years have been an educational experience for me as his grandparent. He has been so successful in reaching his goals and we are so blessed to have PMC in our lives. We are even signing him up for the swimming portion of the Special Olympics because he’s shown us swimming is his favorite thing!" - Pat "Nana" Kurtz

We are so proud of you, Aiden! Thank you so much for being a part of the PMC family!