Isla is a bright, beautiful 3 year old girl with an infectious sense of humour. Owing to issues at birth Isla tragically, suffered a hypoxic incident and had to be resuscitated, transferred to another hospital for medical cooling and spent the first 5 weeks of her life in intensive care. 

She has oodles of character, laughs and smiles lots and shows so much determination. But, owing to her brain insult, she has quadriplegic cerebral palsy affecting all her gross motor skills and she is not yet able to sit, crawl, roll, or walk unaided. Her ability to speak and swallow are also affected, so her weight gain is very slow. Two and a half years ago she had a special feeding tube inserted into her tummy to help her grow.

Isla has privately funded physiotherapy and other forms of intensive therapy weekly, including conductive education, hydrotherapy and speech/language. These therapies are helping increase Isla's core strength, head control, limb strength and her ability to communicate. The more therapy and access to specialised equipment we can give her, especially in the formative years, the more we help her to reach her optimum potential and hopefully allow her some independence.

There is however, little provision for specialist intensive therapy in the UK. The family therefore would like to be able to make bi-annual trips to NAPA Centres for 3-week blocks of intensive therapy which aim to help Isla build new neural connections and assist her towards sitting unaided, weight bearing, having better control of her upper limbs & feeding. Working on her communication skills is also a key goal as, Isla certainly has a lot she wants to say! At present NAPA only have centres in America and Australia and cost in excess of £8000 per 3 week block of therapy.

Isla tries SO hard and brings joy to everyone she meets. Helping Isla the Incredible to reach her full potential would be the best gift we could ever give her.

We thank you for any support you can offer this incredible little girl x