For the month of May, we are celebrating and honoring mothers that are in at least one of our programs. We admire how much love and dedication you have for your family. Thank you for all that you do!
Miss Evie and her family have been utilizing our Help Me Grow program because she needs a little extra help. She meets with a physical therapist and a speech therapist every other week to help her learn and develop as best she can. Her Physical Therapist helps her with building muscles and are helping her stand without support and using a walker to assist her in learning to walk on her own. She is able to pull up to various furniture and is beginning to cruise sideways along couches. Because of her decreased muscle tone, these gross motor activities are more challenging for her and take more effort. She can independently maneuver a walker and stand up in it with support only at her hands.
Her Speech Therapist is helping Evie learn to interact with others and she is starting to do back and forth play. She is jabbering but not yet saying words. Evie is making choices with gestures. She is learning how to feed herself with more mature grasp patterns for her hands and also in using a spoon. She is also working on drinking from a straw.
The Coshocton Beacon wrote a short article including Evie— https://viewer.joomag.com/the-coshocton-county-beacon-march-4-2021/0446454001614804729/p4?short&
March was Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month and that gave the Coshocton County community a great opportunity to create awareness, to learn more about inclusion and to share in the stories of individuals who live, work and thrive in our county. While the County Board of DD and its various provider agency partners are active year round in providing service and supports for those with developmental disabilities, March was a particularly fun time for us to highlight the important roles that individuals with developmental disabilities have within the fabric of our great community.
The Coshocton County Board of Developmental Disabilities would like to thank the elementary school students of Coshocton County for helping us celebrate. Most schools in our county participated in this project.
We are proud to announce the winners of this year’s coloring contest (K-2nd grades): Kindergarten: Griffyn Rowles, Aubree Giesey, & Kamri Bordenkircher. 1st Grade: Maliyah Stocker, Elyza Patterson, & Holly McFadden. 2nd Grade: Zoey Sheaffer, Ivy Moore, & Scarlett Sturgeon. 3rd Grade: Kenzie Roach, Josie Boatman, & Lily Sibert.
The winners of this year’s essay contest (3rd-5th grades) were: Natasha Huffman, Bridget Kobel, Wylan Wright, and Bri Fink.
Bridget Kobel, Natasha Huffman, Wylan Wright and Bri Fink.
Zoey Sheaffer, Kamri Bordenkircher, Josie Boatman, Elyza Patterson, Kenzie Roach, Griffyn Rowls and Scarlett Sturgeon.
