A gentle, supportive guide to developing coping skills and improving quality of life for disabled and chronically ill people.
In LITTLE BEAR SEES you will learn: Exactly what CVI is What common characteristics to look for to determine if your child has CVI How the eyes and brain work together to facilitate vision Strategies and ideas for helping your child learn to see from the leading experts in cortical visual impairment
A new school year means new teachers, a new grade, new friends, new goals and maybe even a new school. Our friends at Learning Disabilities Online have put together these helpful tips to help you and your child or teen transition back to school a little easier.
This comprehensive and useful guide is based on the experiences of ninety women with disabilities who chose to have children.
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.
An empowering and evidence-based guide for living a full life with spastic quadriplegia - bilateral cerebral palsy.
An empowering and evidence-based guide for living a full life with spastic hemiplegia- unilateral cerebral palsy.
Chris achieved and accomplished things that nobody thought were attainable. He persevered through cerebral palsy and learned that God had a purpose for him.
The warm, humorous and true story of Christy Brown's supreme courage and triumph over the cerebral palsy.
Written for fifth and sixth graders, this is the third in a series about Melody, now a teenager with cerebral palsy who utilizes a communication device to interact and participate. She is on her way to London!
Misty Campbell is parent of child with complex disabilities who wrote this book as a guide for other families to advocate for their own children with significant disabilities.
Written by Jessica Frew, this book is about her experiences growing up using a communication device, including the challenges she faced.
Going beyond ADA, this book provides practical tips, tricks and guidelines for people who are looking to build or renovate a home to be accessible.
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.
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.
Written by parents and clinicians, this helpful toolkit is designed to provide support and resources after the initial diagnosis of CP and beyond.
As spring approaches, millions of high school seniors get one step closer to their career and to becoming the person they have dreamed about growing into since they were children. Receiving college acceptance letters is one of the most profound experiences in a young adult’s life. Moving out of your childhood home and stepping into the real world is a majorly exhilarating life event.
This powerful, practical book is meant to help children and adults have meaningful discussions about disability and ableism.
It is important to understand how spasticity can impact the muscles and the know what treatments are available to help.
This webinar is with Ketrina Hazell, Ms. Wheelchair 2018, a young woman with cerebral palsy and Debbie Fink, Vice President of Education and Inclusion at the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, overseeing its flagship “Just Say Hi” program. This webinar is about Ketrina's lived experience in the school system and community and what worked or didn't work as she was growing up.
This webinar with Rachel Byrne, Ashley Harris Whaley and Debbie Fink, focusses on the shifting attitudes towards disabled individuals and authentic representation in media, social media and more.
This webinar with Rachel Byrne, Executive Director of CPF, Ashley Harris Whaley, Director of Communities and Engagement at CPF and individual with with CP, and Debbie Fink, Vice President of Education and Inclusion at the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, overseeing its flagship “Just Say Hi” program, focusses on concepts and definitions addressing disability and how language has evolved.
This webinar, with Ashley Harris Whaley, Director of Communities and Engagement, Rachel Byrne, Executive Director of CPF, and Debbie Fink, Vice President of Education and Inclusion at the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, overseeing its flagship “Just Say Hi” program, focusses on the terms "ableism" and "allyship" and ways to facilitate making connections in the schools and communities.
