Thank you all for your donations to the FRIENDS OF KAI FOUNDATION. So far we have raised about $13,000 dollars in response to our first newsletter! The donations have gone into a bank account and the funds are being exclusively used for Kai's therapeutic treatments. As many of you know, because these treatments are considered 'alternative' they are not funded by Kai's health insurance.
This money has allowed Kai to begin regular lessons with the Anat Baniel Method (www.anatbanielmethod.com). He has completed over 40 lessons with a practioner named Neil Sharp. Neil was a MD in England who moved here to become more involved with the Anat Baniel Method. According to Neil, the Anat Baniel Method is the most successful method that he knows of to support children with neurological challenges.
The lessons are 45-60 minutes in length and consist primarily of specific movements of the legs and arms that stimulate brain wave activity and help to create more neurological pathways in the brain. Kai's receptive language skills are nearly normal, indicating a good cognitive ability. The challenge for Kai, do to the structure of his brain, is COMMUNICATING the knowledge between hemispheres and expressing it verbally. The AB method works directly with this problem by enhancing communication between the 2 hemispheres of kai's brain.
As a little anecdote, a good friend of ours met a neuroscientist at John Hopkins University and told her about Kai's condition. Upon hearing this, the woman said that the only thing she knew of to help kai was the Feldenkrais approach with ANAT BANIEL! She also said that it's a slow process that requires patience. This confirmed and validated what we already believed...we have found the best avialble for Kai and are on the right track!
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