About 20 young Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) patients with cerebral palsy or other physical challenges had the opportunity to go horseback riding recently, an accomplishment many “didn’t realize they could achieve,” as one HSS staffer put it. The New York-based, academic specialty hospital, which exclusively…
The Swedish assistive technology communication specialists Tobii Dynavox launched its new device called Indi, which they say is the world’s first integrated speech tablet designed especially for non-verbal consumers with alternative communication needs. Key user groups for this product are expected to be people with cerebral palsy, autism, Down syndrome,…
Verily Life Sciences recently launched its newest assistive technology device called Liftware Level, engineered to help people with movement disorders that may make it difficult to keep utensils level while eating, such as cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, Huntington’s disease, or post-stroke deficits. Liftware Level uses electronic…
Project Vive, a humanitarian startup intending to help people with non-verbal cerebral palsy (CP), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and other conditions that block speech, has started a crowdsourcing campaign that, if it raises an initial $10,000, will give 10 people a potentially a life-changing gift — the ability to speak. Reaching the campaign goal…
Australia’s University of Queensland (UQ) has secured $13.95 million (about $10.7 in U.S. dollars) over five years from the the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to address major global health challenges, primarily cerebral palsy (CP) and stillbirths. The NHMRC is Australia’s leading expert body…
Few treatment options are available for children with moderate-to-severe cerebral palsy (CP), so when Brayden Starr, 5, was diagnosed as an infant with the brain injury that impairs body movement and muscle coordination, his parents resolved to find ways to provide their son with the best possible quality of life. In their…
The Los Angeles-based University of Southern California (USC) Center for Body Computing (CBC) and the Special Hope Foundation announced a collaborative partnership to advance the development of digital health tools and services to meet the needs of persons with disabilities. The CBC is the digital health innovation…
Today, Oct. 5, marks World Cerebral Palsy Day, a social movement of, by and for the global cerebral palsy (CP) community dedicated to ensuring that everyone with CP has the same rights, access, and opportunities as anyone else. The World Cerebral Palsy Day campaign, which is coordinated by the…
Researchers at Canada’s University of Alberta Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine are investigating the effectiveness of a gait training program on a robotic device called Lokomat compared to regular physical therapy for enhancing walking abilities in pediatric cerebral palsy (CP) patients. The research is being conducted at the Glenrose…
Virginia Tech (VT) associate professor of mechanical engineering Pinhas Ben-Tzvi, will develop a robotic glove to facilitate the early diagnosis of cerebral palsy in children. Ben-Tzvi, founding director of the VT Engineering department’s Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory, worked for years on…