At Now I Can
What the intensive looks like
Right now, Charli cannot walk. She cannot sit up on her own. These are the starting points, not limitations, but the specific skills we are asking therapy to help build.
We are raising funds to take Charli to Now I Can Foundation in Orem, Utah, a nonprofit clinic founded by parents of a child with cerebral palsy who traveled to Poland searching for better therapy, then brought what they found back to the U.S. so other families would not have to make that same trip.
What makes Now I Can different from the weekly therapy Charli currently receives is the intensity and the method. Their program puts children in therapy four hours a day, five days a week, for three straight weeks. Instead of one short session a week where progress inches along, this is full immersion, where each day builds directly on the last.
Now I Can uses a specialized orthotic suit, a soft, wearable system of strategic supports that helps teach the brain and body correct patterns of posture and movement while providing resistance, strengthening, and sensory input. For a child like Charli whose brain has difficulty communicating with her muscles, this suit works to retrain those connections from the outside in.
The therapists there are trained in hands-on techniques that work to override incorrect neurological signals and create new pathways that help children move in ways they have never moved before.
This is not a single technique applied on repeat. Now I Can's therapists build a customized plan around each child, combining suit therapy, vibration therapy, neurodevelopmental treatment, and flexibility work, all tailored to what Charli specifically needs to work toward sitting, standing, and eventually walking.
This kind of intensive repetition has helped children sit, stand, and walk for the first time. Families often describe more progress in three weeks of intensive therapy than in many months of traditional weekly therapy.
Your donation goes toward something specific and concrete: three weeks, four hours a day, with a team that specializes in helping children like Charli build the skills that weekly therapy alone cannot reach.
