Brooks is an amazing, hilarious, determined 3 year old. He has been blessed with so many gifts. Brooks has a severe phonological speech disorder where  cannot correctly form the sounds of many of his words causing most of his words to be unintelligible. With the help of Easterseals, he has met so many goals and is continuing to do so. We have been working with Brooks' speech therapist Molly and Occupational Therapist Kaitlyn  for over a year now and they have become part of our family. As parents, we carry the sadness, uncertainty, and plain grief of what we wanted and expected of our child. However, much of those fears and sadness have been met with celebration and joy thanks to the hard work Molly and Kaitlyn have put in for us. We are just ONE of the 5,000 families served by Easterseals Central Illinois. Because of your support, Easterseals was able to provide over 36,999 hours of therapy.