CP

Understanding Families’ Experiences: Why a Diagnosis Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story

2023-08-09T09:18:20-08:00November 6th, 2018|News|

In the early 2000s, Sharon McCarry was a globe-trotting Fortune-500 marketing director working ten to 12 hours a day. When her second child, Colm, started showing developmental delays during his first year, it was the beginning of “a life that was different, in every single aspect,” she says. McCarry, who lives in Montreal, left behind [...]

Celebrating the Canadian Cerebral Palsy Registry and its Role on World CP Day

2019-07-08T13:13:02-08:00October 6th, 2018|News|

The Canadian CP Registry helped forge an alliance among cerebral palsy researchers across the country, and supports new insights and understandings of the most common motor disability in children. Established in 2003 in Quebec, Kids Brain Health, then known as NeuroDevNet, funded the expansion of the registry to its current coverage of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, [...]

Transforming Treatment of Children with Cerebral Palsy by Focusing on their Abilities

2019-07-08T13:13:02-08:00October 3rd, 2018|News|

Dr. Verónica Schiariti  is championing the use of an online tool to promote care for children and youth with cerebral palsy (CP) that emphasizes their functional capacities and abilities. Her efforts to transform the way CP is perceived and medically supported began as a Kids Brain Health supported postdoctoral fellow. As a trainee in developmental [...]

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