Bring this checklist to pre-op visits. Check off items as you discuss them with your child’s surgeon, pediatrician, and anesthesia team.
This one-page guide helps families know what to expect and what to share with the care team before surgery.
Preparing those with CP for orthopedic surgery is an important step to ensure the best outcomes. The following research review highlights important steps and considerations.
In my 30-year career as a social worker and therapist, I have seen many children, adults, couples and families face what seems impossible. There are some common characteristics with those who face impossible with fear and those who face it with hope.
For all of us, the idea of adjusting is so important in understanding ourselves, those around us and the kindness that can happen when offered with care and understanding.
As we end the year and move into the next, we ask how in the world, do we go into a whole new year, brave?
The 2025 Accessible Holiday Gift Guide makes finding meaningful gifts easy, with adaptive and inclusive ideas for every celebration—because giving should be enjoyable all year round.
Whether you are a caregiver or an individual with CP, the decision to pursue a treatment or therapy can be daunting. Use this guide to help you sort through the hype and determine what might help.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a mental health treatment technique. This method involves moving your eyes a specific way while you process traumatic memories. EMDR's goal is to help you heal from trauma or other distressing life experiences.
On the days that having CP is challenging, it is extra important to take care of yourself, all those feelings and your body. When we can mention how we feel, then we figure out or manage what we need to feel better.
In this new series within Cerebral Palsy Health, Jen sits down with Nathalie Maitre, MD, PhD to talk about parenting, our shared experiences raising sons with CP and more!
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!
This presentation from the 2023 AACPDM Community Forum presents and overview of the interactions between the types of Cerebral Palsy, Mental and Behavioral Health and various medications and strategies to treat challenging mental health disturbances.
The Research Works podcast is designed for health professionals in the area of child health, where we discuss emerging, modern, evidence based research.
Dr. Nathan Rosenberg discusses the importance of community participation as a big part of raising an individual with CP.
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!
An update to the current understanding and potential of stem cell therapies for CP.
Intervention to improve function for children and young people with cerebral palsy needs to include client-chosen goals and whole-task practice of goals. Clinicians should consider child/family preferences, age, and ability when selecting specific interventions.
It is important to understand how spasticity can impact the muscles and the know what treatments are available to help.
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!
Are you wondering how spasticity impacts movement, mobility and function? What tools do physicians have in their tool box to treat spasticity and how do can you help to maximize the impact of these treatments? This virtual event covers it all featuring two of the leading experts in Spasticity and Spasticity Management.
CPF Executive Director Rachel Byrne and psychologist Gili Segall, PhD discuss mental health during these constantly changing times and how to create strategies to help everyone in the family thrive.
CPF Executive Director Rachel Byrne and Weinberg Cerebral Palsy Center social worker, Jan Moskowitz, discuss strategies for coping with anxiety and depression, especially during times of isolation.
