“I really enjoy seeing our Opportunity Center clients succeed in life and accomplish things they never thought they could. “I saw a little girl today who mentioned that she just wrote her name, which was a...
“One of my client’s goals was to work at Golden Corral. So I arranged an interview with the manager, and the two of us went over there. “He was so nervous, I think he drank like...
“We’re focused on helping mentally and physically challenged people become as independent as possible in their lives and in their community. “We start at age 16 for school kids, and we even have a 78-year-old man...
“Owen was diagnosed about two years ago with a mild form of autism, and he was speech delayed. When I moved in with my son to help, the only thing Owen was saying at that time...
“One of the challenges we see at times is alignment of pediatricians with the parents’ sense of urgency that something may be wrong with their young child. There is so much research that indicates that when...
“I have an older child, so I noticed there was a difference in the progress between the two of them. Ryan talked at an earlier age, but Liam wasn’t talking at all. I started to wonder...
“My 10th grade year in high school, a classmate was in football practice when he ran into a guy with his head down. He broke his neck. So he’s paralyzed from the neck down. “At the...
“My left knee blew out about two years ago. It got to the point where the pain felt like someone was driving a knife under my kneecap. I bulled my way through it for a while,...
“I have a lot of arthritis. I’ve had two broken ankles and a knee that’s been worked on. My back’s been worked on and my neck’s been worked on, too. Then last June while I was...
The Baytown Project recently visited staff and clients of Bay Area Rehabilitation Center, a non-profit organization that has served the local and area communities since 1948. The center’s mission is to provide outpatient therapeutic, vocational, social...
