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Hi my name is Julie Tresback and I'm a speech therapist at a local elementary school.
I'm also the mom of a special needs daughter, Megan.
Megan had a near drowning accident when she was twenty two months
and she was actually never supposed to walk or talk.
They told us she was comatose at the beginning and
they said that she would probably never wake up, she would be
in a vegetative state and we should put her in an institution.
Which, if you could see her now you'd know that that's not what we did.
And we ended up
feeding her little bits of chocolate and yogurt
when she was in the hospital and refusing the feeding tube
and got her into children's hospital. She spent another three weeks -- well actually,
she spent three weeks at UCLA and then she went
to children's hospital for rehab for another three months.
She was critically blind
for the first six months after her accident
and then she regained her sight.
She had a lot of
physical therapy and OT
speech therapy along the way.
And she's walking, talking, and actually, verbal skills are her
best quality.
So anyway, her
eligibility status when she was in school was traumatic brain injury.