Some parents of children with cerebral palsy are finding that use of a speech therapy device originally approved to help stroke sufferers regain the ability to eat and swallow properly could also help increase their children’s ability to communicate.
VitalStim is an electrical device approved by the FDA for the treatment of dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing. [...]
Hopeful for the slightest chance to cure their children, some parents in the United States are starting to go abroad to seek out experimental stem cell treatment for cerebral palsy.
A recent article by McClatchy Newspapers highlighted the efforts of two California families who are hoping that stem cell treatments using cells from umbilical cord blood [...]
A new software program could help children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities communicate more quickly and naturally with family and teachers.
The How Was School Today? computer system is equipped with a battery of sensors and recording devices that keep track of a child’s activity throughout the day, and then helps the child turn the [...]
A Maryland jury awarded $3,991,000 to the family of a 9 year-old boy who developed cerebral palsy from a lack of oxygen to the brain before or during birth, which was found to have been caused by the medical negligence of an emergency room physician and obstetrician.
Read more about this Maryland cerebral palsy lawsuit
