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July 9, 2025

Understanding Types of Research: A Guide for Families and Individuals with Cerebral Palsy

Making informed decisions about care and treatment for cerebral palsy (CP) can be overwhelming, especially with the vast amount of medical research available. Through this guide, we aim to help you better understand the types of research you may encounter and provides practical tips for evaluating studies relevant to CP.

January 28, 2025

CPH - Coffee Talk Episode 4 with Dr. Nathalie Maitre: Research

In Episode 4 of Coffee Talk, Nathalie and Jen discuss research and clinical trials.

Natalie Maitre has shoulder length sandy blonde hair and blue eyes. She is wearing a blazer and smiling

November 16, 2024

The 2021 CPF Accessible Gift Guide

If you are looking for a great gift for someone with cerebral palsy or a related disability, we’ve got you covered with our 2021 Accessible Gift Guide.

November 16, 2024

The 2022 CPF Accessible Gift Guide

We’ve spent weeks picking out special gifts at a variety of price points for all ages and stages! Let our Accessible Gift Guide do the work for you, complete with the links to buy each gift directly. And we’re even more excited to let you know we’ve partnered with several of the awesome companies and products featured here for holiday gift giveaways in the days to come with our Holiday giveaway countdown.

2022 Accessible Holiday Gift Guide with a gold bow over gold glitter background

November 16, 2024

The 2024 CPF Accessible Holiday Gift Guide

The 2024 Accessible Holiday Gift Guide is a great place to find gifts, gadgets, gear, and more...not just for the holidays but for birthdays or any day you are looking for something special, all year round!

November 21, 2023

The 2023 CPF Accessible Holiday Gift Guide

Our Accessible Holiday Gift Guide is a great place to find gifts, gadgets, gear, and more...not just for the holidays but for birthdays or any day you are looking for something special, all year round!

June 6, 2023

APPLES - A Safe and Effective Early Intervention for Hand and Arm Use

This study tested the safety and effectiveness of a neuroscience-based, multi-component intervention designed to improve motor skills and sensory processing of the more-affected arm and hand in infants with CP where one side is more impacted than the other (asymmetric CP).

March 9, 2023

Episode 10: Early Detection and Intervention with Dr. Nathalie Maitre

Dr. Nathalie Maitre discusses the CPF Early Detection and Intervention Network and helps us to understand how babies learn, how CP impacts the developing brain, and early intervention strategies that can help.

December 1, 2022

The 2022 CPF Accessible Holiday Gift Guide

July 5, 2022

CPF LIVE! with Christina Smallwood: Behind the Scenes with Fifi and Mo

CPF Executive Director Rachel Byrne and Christina Smallwood talk about parenting, raising a child with cerebral palsy and helping her learn to advocate for herself.

Fifi is a little girl standing in front of her purple walker wearing a grey t-shirt with her hands fisted in the air. She is smiling and has brown hair. She is next to her mom who is wearing a white cowboy hat, dark glasses, has long blonde hair and is smiling wearing a grey shirt and jeans.

April 20, 2022

CPF LIVE! with Mary Lauren Neel, MD: Life after the NICU

CPF Executive Director Rachel Byrne and Dr. Mary Lauren Neel, MD discuss Life after the NICU.

Mary Lauren has curly blond shoulder length hair and is wearing a white lab coat. She is smiling

April 13, 2022

CPF LIVE! with Chris Modlesky, PhD: Exercise, Fitness and Research

CPF Executive Director Rachel Byrne and Chris Modlesky, PhD discuss exercise, fitness, research, research funding and his current research.

Christopher Modleski has dark hair and is smiling wearing a white button down and grey blazer

September 28, 2021

CPF LIVE! with Jocelyn Cohen: Research Collaboration

CPF Executive Director Rachel Byrne and Jocelyn Cohen, Vice President of Communications and Engagement at Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation discuss collaboration in research.

Joycelyn has long brown hair and is smiling. She is wearing a pink shirt.

December 21, 2020

The 2020 CPF Accessible Gift Guide

Front cover of the 2020 Cerebral Palsy Foundation Accessible Gift Guide. Purple background with gold stars

July 1, 2020

Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity is the ability that the brain has to form new connections between different cells or between different areas of the brain.

Representation of a magnifying glass magnifying the neurons in the brain

July 1, 2020

Vision in Infants with CP

Cerebral palsy is caused by damage to the infant brain. This damage can involve not only the motor parts of the brain, but also the parts that deal with vision. This is not related to damage to the eye but is related to damage of the parts of the brain that process visual information.

Representation of an infant seated near a lamp

July 1, 2020

Tips For Your Child's Early Intervention Plan

As a parent, when it comes to different types of interventions for infants with cerebral palsy, how do you know what you have, what you don't, and what you could get?

Zach (age 4) smiling in therapy playing a game with PT

July 1, 2020

The Essential Role of Activity in Infancy

Exploration for an infant means discovering anything about that environment. If that infant needs an opportunity to be brought to them, that's okay. Let an infant explore through their senses, whether it's touch, or smell, or taste, or sight, or hearing.

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

Learning To Move And The Goals Of Therapy

For a child with CP learning to move, the really important things to remember are that the child should always be active.

July 1, 2020

What is Neuroplasticity?

Babies develop about 80% of their brain growth over the first two years of life, and it's also when all the connections in the brain, what we call the white matter, which is the cables in the brain, grow and develop and connect to the cortex.

Outline of child's head outlining brain connections that relate to neuroplasticity

July 1, 2020

Creating the Best Environment for Your Child

It has been scientifically proven that enriched environment can help children with CP gain new skills in their movement but also their thinking and communication skills.