Too often, people with disabilities are relegated to being passive when it comes to the arts.
Cerebral palsy refers to a group of conditions that are caused by problems in brain development and that affect how movement and motor control happen in children. Problems with walking and talking are often the way people start a conversation about cerebral palsy.
It's important for all of us who are imposed with certain physical boundary conditions to push those boundary conditions as far as possible and maintain as much independence as absolutely possible.
I spent many years and many hours learning how to make the body work better, how to bring it out of pain. But that's not the human being alone.
One of the things that we typically forget when we look at kids who have conditions like CP, is that they're first and foremost, children.
The future of science advancements is endless. In this video Dr. Ted Conway discusses the possibility of thought to speech. One of the really interesting areas of research in biomedical engineering is thought to speech. The concept of thought to speech is fairly straightforward, the execution to make this a reality is a little more complicated.