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…

The year is 2000, I am 5 years old. A therapist rolls me back and forth on a huge ball. My back stretches and pops. My legs ache, burn and throb with pain as she hoists my foot up onto her shoulder. “Do you feel a stretch?” She…

A disabilities studies course at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, involving engineering students and cerebral palsy (CP) self-advocates, is the subject of a new award-winning documentary, “The Ability Exchange.” The film documents how engineering students and self-advocates with CP from United Cerebral Palsy of New…

Every one who has a chronic illness likely has experienced days when they have not been able to get out of bed because of their pain or feeling sick. It may seem unimaginable, but it can be easy to become bored when you spend days in bed —…

Fortunately, personal care services are granted to those with physical disabilities. Waiver programs make these very important services affordable. I am blessed to have personal care services so I can live as independently as possible. In my experience of having personal care, I’ve seen good and bad attendants,…

March of Dimes, an organization focused on baby health and premature birth-related diseases like cerebral palsy (CP), recently announced the three 2016 honorees for the sixth annual March of Dimes “Celebration of Babies: A Hollywood Luncheon.” This year’s event will take place Dec. 9 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles.

I think the language we use when talking about our disability or chronic illness is very important, regardless of whether we are talking to our doctors or our friends. As people living with a chronic illness we can control, to an extent, how our lives are perceived. It is…

This month, following mountains and mountains of stress, I sat in the waiting room of the specialist I’ve seen for the past 21 years. Over the course of the month I had to medically withdraw from my senior year in college; my physical, mental, and emotional health was…

I’ve struggled for years with some pretty rough skin — acne, oily patches, dryness, acne scarring and redness, uneven skin tone, etc. I tried many store products with little or no improvement, especially in the long term. I even saw a dermatologist briefly and went the route of…

The number of children with cerebral palsy (CP) infected with the cytomegalovirus (CMV) — a virus believed to trigger the development of this disease in children — may be greater than previously thought, according to a new study. The study reporting the findings, “Congenital Cytomegalovirus among Children with Cerebral…