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.
Though the initial insult or injury to the brain that causes cerebral palsy is non-progressive, aging with cerebral palsy and lack of physical activity during critical periods of development can impact biologic and metabolic function for adults with cerebral palsy.
There are multiple factors that impact bone health, including birth weight, nutrition, medications for seizures and/or reflux, genetics, and physical activity. Targeted exercise to improve bone health in childhood can be sustained into adulthood, and childhood is the best time to promote bone health.
An empowering and evidence-based guide for living a full life with spastic diplegia–bilateral cerebral palsy.
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.
I'm going to be talking about AAC and reading and some different things that you might not think about when you are doing those types of activities. When you're supporting reading for a nonverbal child, whether they use a high-tech system or a light-tech system, like a paperboard, you want to make sure that they have plenty of the opportunities to contribute to the experience. You want to be able to comment. You want to be able to talk about the people, the places, the things, and maybe the feelings that they have.