Katie
The Foundation helped Katie, a nine year-old girl in Rolling Prairie, Indiana. When she was two years old, Katie had a grand mal seizure that lasted 45 minutes. Over the next several months, she experienced additional seizures, and her ability to speak deteriorated rapidly. Katie was eventually diagnosed with Landau-Kleffner Syndrome, which causes seizures and results in an inability to speak. Over the following years, Katie received speech therapy and a variety of anti-seizure medications. The medications have helped to keep her seizures under control, but she has recovered only a portion of her ability to speak. Katie had recently been using an augmentative speech device at school, and had been doing well with it.