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Special Needs > Muscular Dystrophy
Evolving IEPs for Progressive Conditions: Planning Ahead When Your Child's Needs Will Change
...progressive conditions. A child with muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular...child with muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, or Friedreich's...muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, or Friedreich's ataxia...dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, or Friedreich's ataxia doesn't...conditions, it's not. A child with muscular dystrophy in September may...
Medical > Orthopedics
Protecting Bone Health in Non-Ambulatory Children: A Parent's Guide to Preventing Fractures
...For children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, spinal muscular atrophy, or...with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, spinal muscular atrophy, or other conditions...cerebral palsy, spina bifida, spinal muscular atrophy, or other conditions that...palsy, spina bifida, spinal muscular atrophy, or other conditions that limit weight-bearing,...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Pediatric Wheelchairs: Manual vs. Power and When Kids Are Ready
...For children with cerebral palsy, spinal muscular atrophy, or muscular dystrophy,...children with cerebral palsy, spinal muscular atrophy, or muscular dystrophy, that...with cerebral palsy, spinal muscular atrophy, or muscular dystrophy, that difference...palsy, spinal muscular atrophy, or muscular dystrophy, that difference is significant....
Special Needs > Muscular Dystrophy
The Problem of MD Chronic Joint Pain
...chronic joint pain for the Muscular Dystrophy (MD) patient?...this treatment is sugar. Muscular Dystrophy, sports related...disease. In cases of Muscular Dystrophy, muscle weakening...muscle weakening and atrophy can accelerate joint...accelerate joint and spinal degeneration and cause...excessive and painful spinal curvature, impingement...
News > Employment
How to Get a Federal Job with a Disability: A Complete Guide to Schedule A Hiring
...physical disability" is broad. It includes conditions like cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injuries, blindness, deafness, and mobility impairments....broad. It includes conditions like cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injuries, blindness, deafness, and mobility impairments. If your condition...
Health > Exercise
Swimming and Aquatic Therapy: Why Water Works for Children with Special Needs
...children with cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, and many other conditions. What makes water so...cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, and many other conditions. What makes water so effective comes down...
Special Needs > General Special Needs
Summer Camps for Special Needs Children
...special accommodations for children with physical disabilities, such as muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, spina bifida, cerebral palsy,...disabilities, such as muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, and hearing or sight impairments. However,...
Special Needs > Cerebral Palsy
Navigating Spasticity Treatments in Cerebral Palsy: Botox, SDR, and Orthotics Explained
...nerve signals to specific muscles, reducing tightness for 3-4 months at a time. They're targeted and reversible. Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) is spinal surgery that permanently reduces nerve signals causing spasticity in the legs. It's one-time, irreversible, and affects tone throughout the lower body....
Special Needs > Multiple Sclerosis
Living with Pediatric MS: A Complete Guide for Families
...MS. Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks myelin, the protective coating around nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord. When myelin is damaged, nerve signals slow or stop. In children, MS typically follows a relapsing-remitting pattern: periods of new symptoms...
Medical > Gastroenterology
Building a Bowel Management Routine for Children with Neurogenic Bowel
...is common in conditions like cerebral palsy and spina bifida. The disrupted nerve signaling to the colon...evacuation without warning. The most common causes are spina bifida, especially myelomeningocele, cerebral palsy,...bifida, especially myelomeningocele, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, and sacral agenesis. Fecal incontinence...
Health > Exercise
Adaptive Sports and Fitness for Children with Disabilities: Where to Start and How to Succeed
...joint stability, cardiovascular capacity, skin integrity, and any disability-specific considerations that affect physical activity. If your child has a spinal cord injury, the exam includes autonomic dysreflexia screening. If they have cerebral palsy, the focus is on range of motion and muscle tone. The exam...
News > Sports
Steve Emt Found Wheelchair Curling at 42 from a Stranger on Cape Cod. Laura Dwyer Found It from a Flyer. They're the First U.S. Mixed Doubles Pair at the Paralympics.
...at work, a branch broke off a tree near where she was standing. It weighed 1,000 pounds. It left her with 26 broken ribs, three broken toes, and a spinal cord injury that paralyzed her from the waist down. She had been a landscaper for 18 years. She had two young boys at...