Disability Adjusted Blog

Browse through the disability adjusted blog and make a comment or write about your experience with cerebral palsy or any other disability.

Cerebral Palsy Types

Cerebral Palsy Types are many but there four main ones.

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Our daughter with cerebral palsy

This is a disability adjusted story about my experience with my daughter Christabel, who has cerebral palsy (CP), she is unable to walk and she uses a wheel chair.

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Assistive Technology Advocacy

Assistive technology advocacy day was organised for children with disabilities.

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Disability rights movement

Disability rights movement started in the 1960s in the United States of America. The rights movement played an important role in the well being of people with disabilities.

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Disability Training

Monty’s Principles can be used for disability training. The training is aimed at making a person with disabilities to be self sufficient in daily activities.

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Famous People with cerebral palsy

Many people think that having cerebral palsy is the end of the world. However, there are several famous people with cerebral palsy.

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Cerebral palsy videos

The cerebral palsy videos will be used as a tool to help a person with cerebral palsy lead an independent life.

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Cerebral Palsy Story

The second Cerebral Palsy Story started 9 years ago when Mrs. Rose Mwewa was expecting her third born son.

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Cerebral palsy in the classroom

Cerebral palsy in the classroom is an interesting subject. Students with cerebral palsy are required to learn many subjects according the needs of the student but bearing in mind the school syllabus.

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Understanding Cerebral Palsy

Understanding cerebral palsy can help us to be aware of how CP affects the lives of many people all over the world and how we can help people cope with the disorder.

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Disability Types

There are several disability types and the disability may be inborn or acquired. Inborn disability may be due to certain deformities which may be caused by diseases.

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History of disability law

History of Disability Law focuses on Zambian Law on disability which drew some lessons from the pioneering works in the United States of America, United Kingdom and the United Nations.

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Teaching children with cerebral palsy

Teaching children with cerebral palsy is a very challenging and interesting experience for a family.

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Disability activists

Disability Activists are persons either able bodied or persons with disabilities who promote the interests of person with disabilities.

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Effects of cerebral palsy

Overall effects of cerebral palsy on society is not quantified in developing countries so I will give information at household level.

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What is cerebral palsy

What is cerebral palsy, cerebral palsy is a term that refers to a group of long-term or permanent disorders.

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Spastic Cerebral Palsy

Spastic Cerebral Palsy is one of the four cerbral palsy types.

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Self-Esteem

Self-Esteem is important to everyone including children with CP. People with cerebral palsy also go through life's usual phases of ups an downs which are common and normal stages in life.

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Secondary School

This is a story about Christabel's experience in secondary school.

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Pregnancy

There are numerous factors that contribute to risks of a baby getting cerebral palsy. I would like to look at pregnancy in relation to cerebral palsy.

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Mixed Cerebral Palsy

Mixed cerebral palsy is a combination of both the tight muscle tone of spastic cerebral palsy and the involuntary movements of athetoid cerebral palsy.

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Managing Cerebral Palsy

Managing Cerebral Palsy can be a challenge to parents. It is not easy to live with cerebral palsy, but the first step in dealing with the disorder is to help the family learn how to cope with CP.

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Malnutrition

This is an article about cerebral palsy and malnutrition. Children with cerebral palsy would often experience difficulty in eating.

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Living with cerebral palsy

Living with cerebral palsy is for life, so one has to adapt to the condition.

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Learning Disability

This is a story about how learning disability affects performance at school. This story is based on a school report for Christabel for the year 2008.

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Intellectual Disability

Persons with intellectual disability is a term used to describe people with significantly below average in thought process.

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Incidence of cerebral palsy

Incidence of cerebral palsy is difficult to find in most developing countries because it this is not captured in the population census or any other surveys.

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Home Schooling benefits

This is a story about the home schooling benefits, especially for a child with disabilities.

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Home Schooling and Disability

This is a story about home schooling with a child with disability.

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Faith Healing

Faith healing is a belief that God heals people through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Encouragement

Encouragement in form of support from family and friends is necessary for children with cerebral palsy. Support can come in many ways such as showing love and companionship.

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Disability Rights

Disability rights have been promoted by movements. These movements are more active and successful for persons with physical than those with developmental impairments.

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Disability Organisations

Disability organisations representing the interests of persons with disabilities date back to the time of the disability rights movement.

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Disability Help

Disability help can be very difficult especially for Cerebral Palsy because there is no cure. From my experience you can only treat the condition.

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Coping with disabilities

Coping with disabilities at home can be a challenge.

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Cerebral Palsy Students

Assistive Technology in form of a computer helps cerebral palsy students to use the latest available hardware and software technology.

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Cerebral Palsy Stories

Cerebral Palsy Stories are accounts of coping with cerebral palsy by parents, especially mothers.

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Cerebral Palsy Occupational Therapy

Cerebral palsy occupational therapy helps adults and children maximise their function, adapt to their limitations.

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Cerebral palsy girl

Cerebral palsy girl is an interesting subject to discuss, especially when you are dealing with gender and disability.

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Cerebral Palsy Effects

Cerebral Palsy Effects refers to limitations of individual participation in life situations and everyday activities by children with CP.

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Cerebral palsy communication

Cerebral palsy communication is important because self-advocacy for persons with cerebral palsy has been slow in developing.

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Cerebral Palsy Care

Cerebral Palsy Care is important, espacially for a girl child.

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Cerebral Palsy Article

Cerebral Palsy Article is part of the cerebral palsy stories.

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Cerebral palsy activities

One of the most important Cerebral palsy activities is self-care.

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Athetoid Cerebral Palsy

Athetoid cerebral palsy or dsykinetic cerebral palsy is a condition which affects coordination and keeping the body balance.

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Ataxic Cerebral Palsy

Ataxic cerebral palsy is low muscle tone and poor coordination of movements.

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Wheelchair

Some disabilities require use of a wheelchair especially if it affects the legs and one is unable to walk.

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Modern Devices

Modern Devices can improve the lives of people with Cerebral Palsy. CP is a condition which is normally detected after birth.

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Cerebral Palsy Assistive Technology

Cerebral palsy assistive technology are devices for persons with disabilities.

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