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November 10, 2022

Primary Care for Children and Youth with CP

The American Academy of Pediatrics has updated its recommendations for Primary Care Providers to provide a "Medical Home" for children and youth with cerebral palsy. This comprehensive update gives primary care pediatricians the guidance they need to address the many needs that children and youth with CP experience and coordinate care across disciplines. The Cerebral Palsy Foundation has created a checklist to help guide you in raising your child with CP to living the healthiest life possible and ensure that you and your pediatrician are addressing all of your concerns.

A screenshot from the YouTube video, "Depression and Anxiety"

July 20, 2022

RaceRunning training improves stamina and promotes skeletal muscle hypertrophy in young individuals with cerebral palsy

The purpose of this study was to pilot an intervention of a sport-based youth development program modified for accessibility for children and adolescents with movement challenges, with the goal of community-based running participation using running frames.

June 29, 2022

Stability of the Gross Motor Function Classification System, Manual Ability Classification System, and Communication Function Classification System

The GMFCS, MACS and CFCS are all tools used by therapists and researchers to help classify the functional capabilities of individuals with CP. This research article provides evidence of their stability over time.

April 21, 2022

The Power of Wheels

Powered mobility can offer users young and old a level of freedom and independence that may not be achieved through manual wheelchairs or other mobility devices.

Photo of David Stoner, wearing a blue shirt, sitting in his black wheel chair with a tree in the background.

September 20, 2021

Vocational Rehabilitation: A Resource for Employment

Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), operated by the Department of Education, can be utilized for their many tools to aid those with disabilities in the preparation for the job search, finding gainful employment, and maintaining this employment.

July 27, 2021

Personal Care Attendant Job Description for an Adult

Personal Care Attendants for adults with cerebral palsy and other disabilities provide a variety of essential functions that ensure safety, health, wellbeing and overall impact quality of life.

Photo of woman wearing a blue shirt embracing a woman in a wheelchair

July 20, 2021

Personal Care Through the Years

Author David Stoner provides insight into his experience with Personal Care Attendants through the years as his needs and his family's needs have changed.

Photograph of a young woman and young man wearing a graduation cap and gown in wheelchairs holding hands with five individuals standing up behind them. One individual is holding an infant.

May 3, 2021

Head Over Wheels: His Story

Dating can be scary, all of the questions that go through your head before a first date can often be overwhelming. What do I wear? What do we talk about? Does my breath stink? These are common concerns before any normal date. My brain was wrapping itself around the idea that this was my FIRST DATE EVER.

July 1, 2020

Muscle Development & Early Intervention

Cerebral palsy is an injury to the brain, but what we find is that it has a lot of effects on how you use your muscles.

July 1, 2020

Tips For Getting the Right Amount of Exercise

For people with a physical disability, activity is a lifestyle. It's something that can start in physical therapy, but it really is something that has to be carried over into their everyday lives. What has happened over the years is we're understanding the importance of mobility.

Photo of Diane Damiano with words get some exercise written in pink

July 1, 2020

Don't Be Boring Customizing Language

Drawing of AAC device with the word "epic" selected

July 1, 2020

The Art of Storytelling with AAC

Everybody tells stories, and that includes people who use communication systems. To ensure success and the ability to participate we need to make it as easy as possible. So that we can tell stories whenever we want, wherever we want, to whomever we want, and in a really easy way, so we can be successful.

Image on a Pink background. Two figures in wheelchairs sitting at a table with a voice bubble above with images of football, baseball bat and soccer ball.

July 1, 2020

Key Facts - The Five E's of Early Intervention

Early interventions for CP should be based on the strongest possible scientific evidence for benefit and should have the smallest possible risk of harm. In the US, early intervention (EI) is a system of services available under the age of 3, to support infants and toddlers with developmental problems and their families as they interact with and care for their child.

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