A year ago a boy named Brody was nonverbal — meaning he couldn't utter a word — and he couldn’t climb stairs using alternating steps.
Now through a variety of therapies at the Easter Seals Capper Foundation in Topeka, the kindergartner can say a lot of words and can walk up stairs, Risa Flanders, the special event manager at Capper, said Saturday night at the foundation’s fundraiser.
Brody was diagnosed with global developmental delay, which means he is behind other children of his age in the things he can do, Flanders said. That is ...