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26 February 2024

Nathaniel is getting better at typing on his iPad. He still can't come up with unique ideas, but he can sometimes type his choice. The...

26 January 2024

Nathaniel's first caregiver, Haim, came to Nathaniel’s re-birth party (the anniversary of the terror attack), He hasn't visited Nathaniel...

1 December 2023

Part of learning to eat is to learn what can fit in the mouth. Until now if Nathaniel's food is not cut into bite size pieces, he would...

29 October 2023

With the war, Nathaniel's therapy schedule has changed. He used to go twice a week to Jerusalem for communication/speech/occupational...

11 September 2023

Over a year and a half ago, Nathaniel had strabismus eye surgery followed by therapy to help with eye movements. Usually when people have...

09 July 2023

Nathaniel just received a large print siddur with spiral binding. He davens every day and puts on tefillin with the help of caregivers....

06 June 2023

Nathaniel still struggles with spasticity on his right side, but his spasticity is much less. He can’t move that side much but there has...

3 May 2023

On Friday night, Nathaniel was in the synagogue. The caregiver noticed that Nathaniel turned one page of the siddur, and then another...

3 April 2023

The speech therapists wrote four random words in Hebrew (one being "Judi"). She asked Nathaniel to point to "Judi", which he did...

27 February 2023

On Shabbat, we put a slice of challa on Nathaniel's plate. The plate was on the table, not on his tray. When no one gave him the piece of...

27 January 2023

Nathaniel started new intense communication and occupational therapy twice a week. The facility is a far drive, and the days are long,...

18 November2022

The biggest news in Nathaniel's life is that he left full-time outpatient therapy at Tel Hashomer hospital after almost 2 years. At first...

21 October 2022

A few weeks ago the caregiver found Nathaniel unresponsive in his bed after his nap. We rushed straight to the emergency department....

23 September 2022

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year. Shana tova. The speech therapist gave Nathaniel a whistle to practice breathing and...

24 August 2022

Nathaniel is vocalizing more and more, even without the help of the therapists. He still hasn’t learned to make different sounds by...

29 July 2022

The biggest news is that, working together, the physical therapist (by pushing on his belly) and speech therapist (by showing him how to...

1 July 2022

A friend who hadn’t seen Nathaniel for a long time came to visit. He had not known Nathaniel before he was injured, but spent a lot of...

08 June 2022

Nathaniel is developing a discerning palate. It’s a great improvement but brings challenges. He cannot communicate about what he wants...

10 May 2022

On Yom Hashoah, just before the siren, the caregiver asked Nathaniel to choose a psalm to read just before and to think about during the...

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