Too often, people with disabilities are relegated to being passive when it comes to the arts.
It’s SMART to think about what you might want to discuss at your next doctor’s appointment. Here are some suggestions
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.
This fact sheet is a sexual and reproductive health guideline for providers treating young women with 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.
It’s SMART to think about what you might want to discuss at your next doctor’s appointment. Here are some suggestions
"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? "
A speech language pathologist is someone who is trained in working with kids and adults. Everything from working with articulation errors and correcting things to what I do, which is working with people with profound physical impairments and getting them augmentative communication strategies.