This powerful, practical book is meant to help children and adults have meaningful discussions about disability and ableism.
Too often, people with disabilities are relegated to being passive when it comes to the arts.
As a mother and a pediatrician, I’ve both felt the strain of pandemic parenting directly and indirectly. I’ve made decisions about my own family and sending our kids to daycare and school, and I’ve stayed up worrying about how parents are supposed to make these difficult choices with so little support.
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.
"Cerebral palsy is primarily a motor impairment so it's really important to look at what the child’s motor function is. Are they developing on the trajectory of a child who has cerebral palsy or are they developing as we would expect a baby to develop? "