Privy Spotlight: Sonia’s Journey
Sonia Kirkpatrick noticed her oldest daughter was behind developmentally when compared to her siblings. Sonia set out to find why her daughter was insensitive to pain, lacked motor-skill dexterity, was inattentive, and could not interact socially with other children. After thousands of miles traveled and countless appointments with pediatricians, psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists, she received a diagnosis:
Asperger’s Syndrome and
ADHD coupled with Dyspraxia
Sonia spent years orchestrating multiple evaluations, consults, and referrals across the country, expending valuable time and resources that could have been better used to treat her daughter. She wondered how many others had experienced what she and her family had struggled to find.
From this highly personal journey, Sonia developed a vision for a clinic where a child could be evaluated, diagnosed and treated by a multidisciplinary team of professionals in a single location. This is how the concept was born to create PediaPlex.
Sonia took this concept and spent years researching the types of specialists that are necessary to help diagnose and treat children with these challenges. In doing so, she finely tuned her business plan for PediaPlex while completing her MBA at the University of Dallas, and became deeply entrenched in the pediatric behavioral health community in the North Texas area. She recruited and assembled a first class team of professionals, and proudly opened PediaPlex on January 2, 2012 in Southlake, Texas.
Sonia was fortunate to meet Dr. Taaka Cash the CEO of Privy Oasis in Grapevine, Texas through mutual friends. Dr. Taaka Cash has been an incredible compliment to the services provided at PediaPlex. Families are searching not only for a diagnosis and therapy, but additionally the medical and counseling support so lovingly provided by Dr. Cash. Dr. Cash is providing a service to the community that is desperately needed, but the love and support they receive on their journey is priceless.
Sonia Kirkpatrick, Founder of Pediaplex