Add-A-Bands Information

Add-A-Bands are designed by Wiltse Parker Crompton, who graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in occupational therapy from the University of Minnesota in 1965, and has practiced as a pediatric therapist for forty years. Wiltse recently retired from the Early Childhood/Special Education Program of the Bemidji Public Schools in Bemidji, Minnesota where she provided home based services to infants and toddlers from newborns through age two. Wiltse has completed the training for the Bobath Pediatric Neuro-Developmental Treatment Program and The Feldenkrais Method and incorporates both of those methods into her practice of occupational therapy. Wiltse is the mother of eight children, grandmother of eighteen children, and the sister of Patia Parker, an amazing individual with Down syndrome who, as an infant sixty-three years ago, began her challenge moving through life.