Doctor With Cerebral Palsy Gives Patients Empathetic Treatment
by Jim Salter - Dr. Jan Brunstrom-Hernandez gently but sternly admonishes a teenage cerebral palsy patient who clearly hasn’t been doing his exercises, stressing the importance of keeping muscles loose...
View ArticleSolar-Powered Wheelchair wins Cerebral Palsy Day Competition
We ran a story on this solar-powered wheelchair project in December, when it became one of three finalists on the competition for a grant. After online reviews of the project, the wheelchair was voted...
View ArticleGirl with Cerebral Palsy Enjoys New Trike
Eight-year-old Jasmine Ather has cerebral palsy, having been diagnosed with the illness at 15 months, and needs help just to get to school each day. The youngster, of Lloyd Avenue, in East Rainton, was...
View ArticleTechnology Gives Kids with Cerebral Palsy Access to Gaming
Cerebral palsy will not be an obstacle for children to enjoy gaming thanks to technology that requires little gross motor functions. Cerebral Palsy Family Network has released a video showing children...
View ArticleSpeech Patterns Research in Children with Cerebral Palsy May Lead to New...
Children with cerebral palsy could be helped to speak more clearly following research by a University of Strathclyde academic. Dr Anja Kuschmann will analyse the speech patterns of young people...
View ArticleDance Class for Kids with Cerebral Palsy
by Mike Bush - It’s after 6pm at the Brentwood Community Center and pupils and parents are arriving with a spring in their step. “Oh, it’s a highlight of his week, “says one parent. This is Kim...
View ArticleDealing with daughter’s cerebral palsy challenges family
Jessica breaks down and cries when she speaks of the gift her father gave her before he died suddenly five years ago. He bought her family a double-wide trailer, paying in cash so that Jessica, her...
View ArticleGetting services for children with developmental disabilities is an on-going...
Two Sumter mothers have bonded over children with developmental disabilities in the 20-plus years they’ve known each other. Nancy Gardenhire’s son, John E. Gardenhire Jr., whom everyone calls “LJ” for...
View ArticleBrother raises cerebral palsy awareness
by Joyce Ervin - A courageous and dedicated Hunter Gandee, 14, will arrive at Milan’s Veterans Wall of Honor on June 7 at approximately 8 p.m. with his little brother Braden on his back. He’s hoping...
View ArticlePeople wish we would just go away
By Dennis Rosen – It had been several months since I had last seen my patient, and even longer since I’d seen his mother. He was 3 and unable to walk or talk, and when I caught his eye, his face broke...
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