Joshua

Joshua is a very happy 7 year old boy, who loves his trampoline and his swing. He also loves listening to music and his favourite toys are noisy musical toys. He is Globally delayed and goes to a special needs school for severe learning disabilities.

Joshua is non verbal but has recently started showing us objects of reference for communication; like showing us his favourite book for us to read to him.

Joshua is very small for his age, he has hypotonia/hyper-mobility which he has a wheel chair and a specialist feeding chair for. He also has GERD which he has medication for. He has strabismus and an alternating squint, which he wears an eye patch for a couple of days a week.