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What's the idea behind the Arlington Heights Memorial Library's new Accessibility Support Collection that formally launched Tuesday night? To give families and therapists the opportunity to try out some of the 350 specialized items before purchasing them.
Updated 2/2/2021 6:16 AM When your child needs therapy to speak, eat, sit up, walk, make eye contact and reach other milestones, the outside world can be a scary place. "I never really understood how isolating it was for some of these families. These families stay in their homes and they are very vulnerable," says Beth Deiter, an Arlington Heights speech-language pathologist who worked 12 years at what is now Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. She started her home-based therapy practice after she and her husband, Chris, had daughter Cecilia, now 10, and son Elliott, now 8. Whil...