Without Restraint: How Skiing Saved My Son's Life Delena Robert C.
Without Restraint: How Skiing Saved My Son's Life Delena Robert C. As a child Ryan DeLena had difficulty controlling his emotional outbursts. Nothing helped from a team of doctors to heavy…
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Without Restraint: How Skiing Saved My Son's Life Delena Robert C.
As a child Ryan DeLena had difficulty controlling his emotional outbursts. Nothing helped from a team of doctors to heavy medication. This led to placement in therapeutic schools that relied on detrimental methods of behavior modification such as physical restraints.
His parents Rob and Mary Beth were counseled to place him in a group home. Then in 2010, Ryan was voluntarily committed to a mental hospital for further evaluation. They refused.
Two years earlier, after an impulsive decision Rob had to take Ryan skiing, he discovered a different child than the version experts were so sure about. By his second day of skiing, Ryan was executing advanced runs, and with each conquest in the winters that followed, Rob began to question the path laid for his son by the professionals paid to judge him. He later convinced Mary Beth to fight the medical and educational complexes over Ryan's care