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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
Students with disabilities often need extra support throughout the day to access their environment, the academic materials, and learn alongside their peers. A Personal Care Attendant in the school setting is often utilized to support the students needs.
Children and teens with cerebral palsy and other disabilities may need the assistance of an individual who has a background in healthcare and the skills to provide the services essential to quality care.
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.
An employment agreement spells out the rules, rights and responsibilities for both the Personal Care Attendant (the employee) and the individual with cerebral palsy or family who is hiring the Personal Care Attendant.
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.
On this episode, I have the honor of talking with Wendy Pierce, MD, a pediatric physiatrist at Colorado Children's Hospital about physiatry, also known as Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. This fantastic field of medicine can be helpful for individuals with cerebral palsy across with lifespan, but it has a confusing name and sometimes a confusing job description. So we set out to help listeners better understand what a physiatrist does.
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.
Our “Let’s Talk CP” podcast series kicks off with a great conversation about what questions to ask your child’s clinician when your child has cerebral palsy. How should you prepare for a medical appointment? What questions should you ask? Should you get a second opinion? Join Cerebral Palsy Foundation host, Cynthia Frisina as she shares candid talk, lessons learned and great advice with fellow moms, Wendy Sullivan and Jennifer Lyman. This episode is made possible with the support of Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals.
There is insufficient research on adults living with cerebral palsy, (as referenced in my previous blog post on cerebral palsy and adulthood). Although there is a paucity of studies examining mental health in this population, medical researchers have speculated that the rate of depression is three to four times higher in people with disabilities such as CP than it is in the general population.
When first meeting a parent who's had a child newly diagnosed with cerebral palsy, I really want to try and help them understand their baby. It can be difficult for parents to take it in all at once and many leave that first interview quite overwhelmed, but you're going to meet some really important and helpful people.
