Nolan started therapy at one month of age. He was initially diagnosed with a chromosomal anomaly, then after searching for answers for a long time, his grandmother asked his doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital to look into a disease she had researched called...

It is impossible to accurately describe the desperate, helpless feeling of watching as your firstborn child, a baby not more than a week old, lies motionless as he is poked, prodded, tested and assessed. There is a sickening sensation as your hopes and dreams slowly...

Allyson is a typical little girl. She likes to dress up, help in the kitchen, and play outside. She just needs a little extra help. When she was 18 months old, she got meningitis which resulted in an extended hospitalization. She was eventually flown to Seattle...

Mealtimes can be stressful for many families, but for Grant’s family they were particularly difficult. There were tears and tantrums and general frustration. At 3 years old, Grant was only willing to eat crunchy carbohydrates, such as crackers. No vegetables or fruit,...

Meet Kian, who is a charming, energetic 4 year old. Kian was placed in foster care at a very young age, and was exposed to drugs and alcohol before he was born. This made him at very high risk for developmental and behavior delays, but at only 1 year old, he was not...

Amaury has received occupational therapy through the Elks Therapy Program for nearly a year now. At age 21 months, the reason for his seizure disorder and vision and muscle tone problems are still a mystery to his physicians. However, with his mother and therapist...