Our second Toddler Mobility Trainer · Glenolden, Pennsylvania
Jayden
Jayden Elizabeth Glatthorn
Jayden is nine, the youngest of three sisters, and has spastic diplegia cerebral palsy. She is our second TMT build. Here is her story.
Her TMT is pink and purple. She picked the colors.
- Who
- Jayden, age 9
- Diagnosis
- Spastic diplegia cerebral palsy
- Where
- Glenolden, Pennsylvania
- Built by
- EcoPrint
Meet Jayden
Bright eyed, wide smiled, and the youngest of three
Jayden has two older sisters, Julia and Karissa, who are her best friends and her fiercest protectors. They see Jayden first, not her disability, which is the whole point.
She is intelligent, curious, fun loving, sassy, and deeply empathetic. She has an unusual ability to read a room and find the person carrying the heaviest load that day. She loves life and she brightens every room she walks into.
She is also very aware of her different abilities, and over the past year she has started saying out loud that she wants to walk, to run, and to move around more easily. That is the request this build was answering.
Her story Nine years, and the turns that shaped them Written with her family, September 2026. About a four minute read.
Jayden's entry into the world was difficult. She was born at 31 weeks and opioid dependent, and she spent her first stretch of life in the NICU going through a slow, managed withdrawal. Before she entered the Glatthorns' care, she had not seen a pediatrician past her two month well visit.
Coming home
On April 27, 2018, the family drove to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as a family of four and came home as a family of five. Jayden was eleven months old and joining them as a foster child. Apart from her name, the only context they had was that she shared biological parents with their middle daughter.
Her first several months at home were a run of evaluations and appointments, working toward a proper diagnosis and lining up the therapies she would need. She was stiff, made minimal eye contact, and did not track objects the way a baby her age should. She was wonderfully pleasant through all of it, and there were clearly pieces missing from the picture.
Finding a name for it
At twelve months, Jayden was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, spastic diplegia. On July 18, 2019, her adoption was finalized and the family was complete. Julia and Karissa had officially become sisters to one another on November 17, 2017. Jayden and Karissa are full biological sisters.
Six years of work
The first six years of Jayden's life ran through DCIU classrooms, gym sessions, Theraplay, and clinics at Ivy Rehab for Kids, alongside doctor visits, Botox injections, serial castings and surgeries. Through all of it she never lost the smile. She loves therapy, and she works hard at it every single time.
“Her sisters see Jayden first, not her disability.”
Her mom
Who she is now
Her taste in music runs from the 1970s to whatever came out last week. Between the ages of one and three her favorite song was We Will Rock You. Her speech was delayed then, so she learned to ask for it with two words. She would say “we will” and wait for someone to put the video on again.
She loves food and she is honest about it. Chicken nuggets and fries, and also mussels, clams and dim sum, which she fell for at fourteen months in Chinatown. She will try anything once, and she will tell you plainly if she did not care for it.
She plays baseball for the Miracle League of Delaware County. She loves water play and her adaptive bike. Because her vision was limited when she was younger, her hearing and sense of smell sharpened to compensate, and she catches a musical beat seconds before anyone else notices it playing.
Why this device
Her mom started following the MakeGood story when the Toddler Mobility Trainer was still a prototype. What stayed with the family was the reminder that people are actively working on solutions for families with medically complex children. When the time came, they asked, and EcoPrint claimed the build.
The design question was never really about the device. It was about a nine year old who had started asking for more room to move, and about a family always looking for creative ways to keep her fully included in ordinary experiences.
The Glatthorn family
Glenolden, Pennsylvania
“My oldest daughter is my test from God. My middle daughter is my easy one. And Jayden is the one I didn't know I needed.”Jayden's mom
Before the TMT How Jayden gets around Four pieces of equipment, each solving one problem and creating another.
01 Posterior gait trainer
Supports her from behind while she walks. Effective, and it wears her out quickly.
02 Self propelled wheeled stander
Holds her upright and she can move it herself. Large, and built for one position.
03 Wheelchair
Her transport at school. Someone else is usually doing the pushing.
04 Crawling
What she chooses at home. It is the fastest way to move without dragging equipment along behind her.
The trouble is that she is growing. Over the past year, lifting her for transitions to chairs, the couch or the steps has become genuinely difficult. Crawling keeps her fast, and it also keeps her on the floor and below everyone else's eye line.
What she needed was not a better wheelchair. It was a way to be upright, at the right height, moving under her own power, without an adult in the loop every time.
After the TMT What the Toddler Mobility Trainer changes Four places it shows up in an ordinary week.
The TMT is a light, open source, 3D printed mobility device. It holds a child upright at a comfortable standing height, supports them where they need it, and lets them push themselves wherever they want to go. Every one is built to fit the child it is going to.
01 In the classroom
Moving away from her desk currently means her personal care assistant pushes her in a large Rifton activity chair. With the TMT she can join group activities away from the desk almost entirely on her own, at eye level with her classmates instead of looking up at them.
02 On the ball field
Using her walker on the field used to fatigue her fast and cut her day short. In the TMT she gets through entire Miracle League games with far less physical strain.
03 At home
She can stay at a comfortable height indoors instead of defaulting to the floor, and move between rooms without anyone lifting her or hauling larger equipment behind her.
04 At the water park
The family is heading to Sahara Sam's over winter break. Water play is one of her favorite things, and the TMT lets her get into it independently while her bulkier durable medical equipment stays dry and undamaged.
Delivery day
Pink and purple, exactly as ordered
Photographs shared with her family's permission.
- Build team
- Jayden's TMT was designed, printed, and assembled by Caleb and Carson.
What it takes to put one kid in motion The numbers behind Jayden's build
- TMT
- MakeGood TMT kit
- The open source design we print from
- 250
- Hours printing
- Roughly, start to finish
- $200
- In materials
- The full cost of the device
- $0
- Cost to the family
- Every device, every time
What happens next
There is another family already waiting
Jayden's build is finished. The queue behind her is not. Three ways to move it along.
One
Fund the next build
Our hours are volunteered and the files are free. What we buy is plastic and hardware. Gifts routed to EcoPrint through MakeGood go straight into the next device.
$200 covers one complete device
Sponsor a deviceTwo
Build one yourself
If you own a printer, you are most of the way there. The Toddler Mobility Trainer files are open on MakerWorld, the same ones we printed for Jayden.
Files are open and free to use
Get the filesThree
Know a family like Jayden's
Most families never hear that any of this exists. Eligibility comes down to a sizing chart, and there is no cost and no insurance involved at any point.
No cost to the family, ever
How to request a deviceThank you to the Glatthorn family for trusting EcoPrint with this one, and to MakeGood for the design and the network that made it possible.
Who made this build possible
Bambu Lab
Supplies the printers behind every EcoPrint build, including Jayden's.
eSUN
Provided the filament that Jayden's TMT was printed in.