Help speak up!

Nastia can't talk. The girl is growing and she needs to learn to speak. In addition to Down syndrome Nastia has a complex disease. The child is sick since her birth. Methods of treatment offered at the Center of  Brain Stimulation in Kyiv can give a powerful impetus to the development of speech activity of Nastia, but parents do not have enough funds to pay for this rehabilitation course.

Nastia can't talk. The girl is growing and she needs to learn to speak. In addition to Down syndrome Nastia has a complex disease. The child is sick since her birth. Methods of treatment offered at the Center of Brain Stimulation in Kyiv can give a powerful impetus to the development of speech activity of Nastia, but parents do not have enough funds to pay for this rehabilitation course.

In the first week of the girl's life the symptoms of acute osteomyelitis have developed, on the right side of the catheter. The girl was treated with medication, there was a pathological dislocation of the right hip. Up to 9 months, Nastia was in the Pavlik's stirrup, that had limited her development. She stood on her feet when she was 15 months old, and she had a pathological fracture of the right femur. Treatment in a cast for 10 months, and restricted movement and development of the child. Nastia was crawling until 2 years and she was not operated, and needles inserted in the thigh at the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics in Kyiv. After that, she stood on her feet ay the age of 3, but ahead of other expensive surgical interventions.

Despite all the problems with health Nastia grows cheerful and friendly child, attends classes of social rehabilitation in the centre for disabled children and children's early development center, which communicates with the other children. A great impetus to the development of the child will be, if she will start to speak. She tries to understand, and more, but can not say even a word. To help solve this problem, she needs to be treated by the the procedures in the Center of brain stimulation.

But parents do not have enough funds to pay for this course of rehabilitation. We ask all caring people to help sunny Nastia make a big step in her development. We believe that the world is full of good people, and our girl will talk!

Name: Anastasia Mikhailova Erikovna, 15.10.2011

Location: Kherson

Diagnosis: Trisomy 21 mosaicism, immune deficiency associated with Down syndrome