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- 20:4:80 Program
- #8 The Teen Years – Change the Goals to Get Later Treatment
- #7 Birth to 4y – Change the Label to Get Early Cerebral Palsy Treatment
- #6 Goal Setting For Change
- #5 What Cerebral Palsy Is and Is Not
- #4 Weekly, Short Therapy Visits Do Not Change Function
- #3 Your Baby Has a Brain Problem
- #2 The 21st Birthday Party
- #1 Twenty Years of Training for Eighty Years of Life
- General
- #8 The Teen Years – Change the Goals to Get Later Treatment
- #7 Birth to 4y – Change the Label to Get Early Cerebral Palsy Treatment
- #6 Goal Setting For Change
- #5 What Cerebral Palsy Is and Is Not
- #4 Weekly, Short Therapy Visits Do Not Change Function
- #3 Your Baby Has a Brain Problem
- #2 The 21st Birthday Party
- #1 Twenty Years of Training for Eighty Years of Life
- Alignment
- What Do I Do First?
- Alignment, Awareness, Recruitment and Strength
- Is This Good Enough? GMFCS Level III to V
- Will My Child Walk? Setting Age Appropriate Goals
- Body Growth Increases Spasticity
- Quick Fixes – Take Your Therapist’s Hands Home with You.
- Quick Fixes for 2014 – Stabilize the Wrist and Thumb
- Take Advantage of the Periods of Peak Neuroplasticity
- Back to Basics – Alignment Comes First
- The Good, the Bad & the Ugly Facts About Growth and Recovery
- Brachial Plexus Injury (BPI)
- Brain Plasticity
- Cerebral Palsy
- Real, Not False Hope
- Can Therapeutic Riding Help?
- Review from The American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine
- Ready For a Cure?
- Progress in Stem Cell Treatment for Cerebral Palsy
- Dyskinetic Quadriplegia – Athetosis, Choreoathetosis & Ataxia – GMFCS I to V
- Cerebral Palsy – Spastic Quadriplegia – GMFCS Level I – III
- Cerebral Palsy – Hemiplegia – GMFCS I to III – Part Two
- Cerebral Palsy – Hemiplegia – GMFCS I to III – Part One
- Cerebral Palsy – Diplegia – GMFCS I to III
- Cerebral Palsy – The Best Possible Outcome and How To Get It
- What Is Your Child’s Label?
- Habit Hides Recovery: What does your child’s teacher need to know?
- Neuroplasticity in Cerebral Palsy
- Better Through Play-Don’t Waste the Summer
- Revolutionize Your Approach To Therapy This Summer
- Cerebral Palsy: The Timing of Damage is Important
- When Does Treatment Stop Being Research?
- What Were You Told About Cerebral Palsy?
- Neuroplasticity and Hands II: Awareness Precedes Activation
- Neuroplasticity and Hands: Doing The Right Thing, At The Right Time, and In The Right Order
- 3 Steps To Hand Use: Alignment, Awareness and Activation
- Good Enough Is Not Good Enough Any More – Function Follows Form In Cerebral Palsy
- Do You Want Your Child to Walk or to Walk Well?
- How Much Does It Hurt?
- Will My Child Walk? Are We Doing the Right Therapy?
- The Good, the Bad and The Ugly Facts about Adult CP
- Babies with early brain damage or babies with BPI are the same.
- Primary movement patterns explained
- Uncovering normal neurology
- Cerebral Palsy Spasticity Series
- Intrathecal Baclofen Pump In Cerebral Palsy
- Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) in Cerebral Palsy
- Botox, Orthopedic Surgery, Posterior Rhizotomy and/or a Baclofen Pump?
- A New Way Of Thinking About AFO’s – Spasticity Series #6
- First the Trunk, Then the Ankle – Spasticity #5
- Spasticity is a Body and Brain Habit
- Muscle Imbalance Hurts Growing Bodies
- What About Spasticity?
- CP & GMFCS
- Dyskinetic Quadriplegia – Athetosis, Choreoathetosis & Ataxia – GMFCS I to V
- Cerebral Palsy – Spastic Quadriplegia – GMFCS Level I – III
- Cerebral Palsy – Hemiplegia – GMFCS I to III – Part Two
- Cerebral Palsy – Hemiplegia – GMFCS I to III – Part One
- Cerebral Palsy – Diplegia – GMFCS I to III
- Cerebral Palsy – The Best Possible Outcome and How To Get It
- What Is Your Child’s Label?
- Three R’s of Baby Brain Neuroplasticity
- Great Reads
- The Empowered Patient by Elisabeth S. Cohen – New York: Ballantine, 2010
- Kinesio Taping in Pediatrics
- Evidence and Art by Kimberly Barthel, OTR
- The Woman Who Changed Her Brain And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young – New York: Free Press, 2012
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell – New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008
- The Invisible Gorilla
- The Concise Book of Muscles by Chris Jarmey and The Anatomy Coloring Book by Wynn Kapit & Lawrence M. Elson
- How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD – New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007
- The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, MD – New York: Penguin Group, 2007
- The Checklist Manifesto – How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande – New York: Picador, 2011
- How Humans Think
- Neuroplasticity
- Parent & Therapist Resources
- The Empowered Patient by Elisabeth S. Cohen – New York: Ballantine, 2010
- Kinesio Taping in Pediatrics
- Evidence and Art by Kimberly Barthel, OTR
- The Concise Book of Muscles by Chris Jarmey and The Anatomy Coloring Book by Wynn Kapit & Lawrence M. Elson
- How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD – New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007
- The Checklist Manifesto – How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande – New York: Picador, 2011
- Habit Hides Recovery
- Demonstrating Brain Potential
- Alignment, Awareness, Recruitment and Strength
- FAQ – How Do You Change Habits?
- FAQ – How Are Habits Made?
- When is It Too Late for Changes in Speech?
- Habit Hides Recovery: What does your child’s teacher need to know?
- Minimize Maladaptive Motor Habits
- The Good, the Bad & the Ugly Facts About Growth and Recovery
- The Boy Who Could Run Better Than He Could Walk
- Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
- Information for Parents and Adults
- How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD – What Every Parent Should Read
- Pearla and Her Unpredictably Perfect Day by Rochel Lieberman,MA CCC-SLP
- Does Your Child have ADHD?
- How Much Does It Hurt? Part 2
- Athetosis, Choreoathetosis & Ataxia – Treat the Common Problem
- Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy [HIE] or Neonatal Encephalopathy [NE]?
- Spastic Diplegia – Cure For Some, Improvement For All
- Do Brain Scans Improve Diagnostic Accuracy?
- When Was Your Child Diagnosed With CP?
- An Intensive Experience by Erik Zimmerman – Adults with CP can Improve
- Have you decided that your child’s function is “Good Enough”?
- Set the Bar Higher
- Expectation Changes Intelligence
- Intensives In Puberty: Take Advantage of Neuroplasticity
- Interest Groups
- Neuroplasticity
- Karen Pape Webcast: Optimizing Outcomes in Cerebral Palsy
- The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. -Vince Lombardi
- Demonstrating Brain Potential
- Squeaky Shoes Change Habits
- Check Out This Interview!
- Neuroplasticity in Action
- A wonderful example of persistence and neuroplasticity
- What Do You See?
- Test and Test Again: Brains Keep Growing
- Rewire Your Brain with a New Habit
- What Can You Do With Half a Brain?
- Three R’s of Baby Brain Neuroplasticity
- Adult Neuroplasticity Explained
- Neuroplasticity in Cerebral Palsy
- Neuroplasticity and Hands II: Awareness Precedes Activation
- Neuroplasticity and Hands: Doing The Right Thing, At The Right Time, and In The Right Order
- Can You Stimulate Baby Brain Neuroplasticity?
- Too Little, Too Late
- “Lost Time is Never Found Again” Benjamin Franklin
- Impossible for the Child, Possible for an Adult
- Intensives In Puberty: Take Advantage of Neuroplasticity
- Take Advantage of the Periods of Peak Neuroplasticity
- Recovery In Cerebral Palsy Takes Time (and Fresh Thinking)
- Baby Brains Can Recover – Pediatric Neuroplasticity
- Neuroplasticity & Great TED Talks
- New Cats
- Improving Hand Use
- Change Your Mindset, Change Your Outcome
- How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD – What Every Parent Should Read
- Karen Pape Webcast: Optimizing Outcomes in Cerebral Palsy
- The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. -Vince Lombardi
- What Do I Do First?
- Demonstrating Brain Potential
- Real, Not False Hope
- Alignment, Awareness, Recruitment and Strength
- Can Therapeutic Riding Help?
- Squeaky Shoes Change Habits
- FAQ – How Do You Change Habits?
- FAQ – How Are Habits Made?
- Is This Good Enough? GMFCS Level III to V
- A Surprising Outlier from the 1930s
- Will My Child Walk? Setting Age Appropriate Goals
- Body Growth Increases Spasticity
- Real Hope after Baby Brain Damage
- Real or False Hope after Early Brain Damage?
- Neuroplasticity in Action
- A wonderful example of persistence and neuroplasticity
- What Do You See?
- Test and Test Again: Brains Keep Growing
- When is It Too Late for Changes in Speech?
- What Can You Do With Half a Brain?
- Baby Brain Neuroplasticity
- Ready For a Cure?
- Does Your Child have ADHD?
- Dyskinetic Quadriplegia – Athetosis, Choreoathetosis & Ataxia – GMFCS I to V
- Cerebral Palsy – Spastic Quadriplegia – GMFCS Level I – III
- Cerebral Palsy – Hemiplegia – GMFCS I to III – Part Two
- Cerebral Palsy – Hemiplegia – GMFCS I to III – Part One
- Cerebral Palsy – Diplegia – GMFCS I to III
- Cerebral Palsy – The Best Possible Outcome and How To Get It
- What Is Your Child’s Label?
- Three R’s of Baby Brain Neuroplasticity
- Habit Hides Recovery: What does your child’s teacher need to know?
- Adult Neuroplasticity Explained
- Neuroplasticity in Cerebral Palsy
- Better Through Play-Don’t Waste the Summer
- Revolutionize Your Approach To Therapy This Summer
- Cerebral Palsy: The Timing of Damage is Important
- When Does Treatment Stop Being Research?
- What Were You Told About Cerebral Palsy?
- Neuroplasticity and Hands II: Awareness Precedes Activation
- Neuroplasticity and Hands: Doing The Right Thing, At The Right Time, and In The Right Order
- Trunk Support Changes Tone
- More On Trunk Support Changes Tone
- The Early Signs of “Activity Dependent Tone”
- 3 Steps To Hand Use: Alignment, Awareness and Activation
- Do You Want Your Child to Walk or to Walk Well?
- How Much Does It Hurt? Part 2
- Can You Stimulate Baby Brain Neuroplasticity?
- How Much Does It Hurt?
- Will My Child Walk? Are We Doing the Right Therapy?
- Wise words from Marina Morris
- Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy [HIE] or Neonatal Encephalopathy [NE]?
- Spastic Diplegia – Cure For Some, Improvement For All
- Do Brain Scans Improve Diagnostic Accuracy?
- Too Little, Too Late
- When Was Your Child Diagnosed With CP?
- “Lost Time is Never Found Again” Benjamin Franklin
- An Intensive Experience by Erik Zimmerman – Adults with CP can Improve
- Impossible for the Child, Possible for an Adult
- Have you decided that your child’s function is “Good Enough”?
- Stem Cell Therapy? It May Be Closer Than You Think
- Set the Bar Higher
- Expectation Changes Intelligence
- Quick Fixes – Take Your Therapist’s Hands Home with You.
- Quick Fixes for 2014 – Stabilize the Wrist and Thumb
- Intensives In Puberty: Take Advantage of Neuroplasticity
- Take Advantage of the Periods of Peak Neuroplasticity
- Intrathecal Baclofen Pump In Cerebral Palsy
- Botox, Orthopedic Surgery, Posterior Rhizotomy and/or a Baclofen Pump?
- Kinesio Taping in Pediatrics
- A New Way Of Thinking About AFO’s – Spasticity Series #6
- First the Trunk, Then the Ankle – Spasticity #5
- Spasticity is a Body and Brain Habit
- Muscle Imbalance Hurts Growing Bodies
- What About Spasticity?
- Water Exercise for Children with Cerebral Palsy
- Back to Basics – Alignment Comes First
- Core Support Options
- Minimize Maladaptive Motor Habits
- Movement Starts With The Core
- Billi Cusick’s Thoughts on Managing Children with Diplegic Cerebral Palsy
- The Good, the Bad and The Ugly Facts about Adult CP
- The Good, the Bad & the Ugly Facts About Growth and Recovery
- Recovery In Cerebral Palsy Takes Time (and Fresh Thinking)
- Evidence and Art by Kimberly Barthel, OTR
- The Woman Who Changed Her Brain And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young – New York: Free Press, 2012
- Primary movement patterns explained
- Uncovering normal neurology
- Great Ideas
- Never Too Late
- Brachial Plexus Injury
- Cerebral Palsy
- Crawling: Normal, But Not Necessary
- The Invisible Gorilla
- The Boy Who Could Run Better Than He Could Walk
- Baby Brains Can Recover – Pediatric Neuroplasticity
- How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD – New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007
- Deep Water Jogging for Gait Training
- The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, MD – New York: Penguin Group, 2007
- The Checklist Manifesto – How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande – New York: Picador, 2011
- Basic Water Exercise Program
- Basic Cerebral Palsy Facts
- Karen Pape Webcast: Optimizing Outcomes in Cerebral Palsy
- Will My Child Walk? Setting Age Appropriate Goals
- Ready For a Cure?
- Dyskinetic Quadriplegia – Athetosis, Choreoathetosis & Ataxia – GMFCS I to V
- Cerebral Palsy – Spastic Quadriplegia – GMFCS Level I – III
- Cerebral Palsy – Hemiplegia – GMFCS I to III – Part Two
- Cerebral Palsy – Hemiplegia – GMFCS I to III – Part One
- Cerebral Palsy – Diplegia – GMFCS I to III
- Cerebral Palsy – The Best Possible Outcome and How To Get It
- What Is Your Child’s Label?
- Cerebral Palsy: The Timing of Damage is Important
- Will My Child Walk? Are We Doing the Right Therapy?
- Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy [HIE] or Neonatal Encephalopathy [NE]?
- Spastic Diplegia – Cure For Some, Improvement For All
- Do Brain Scans Improve Diagnostic Accuracy?
- Have you decided that your child’s function is “Good Enough”?
- Quick Fixes – Take Your Therapist’s Hands Home with You.
- Intrathecal Baclofen Pump In Cerebral Palsy
- Botox, Orthopedic Surgery, Posterior Rhizotomy and/or a Baclofen Pump?
- Kinesio Taping in Pediatrics
- A New Way Of Thinking About AFO’s – Spasticity Series #6
- First the Trunk, Then the Ankle – Spasticity #5
- What About Spasticity?
- Core Support Options
- Minimize Maladaptive Motor Habits
- Movement Starts With The Core
- CP Intensives - The Pape Method
- Neuroplasticity & Habit
- Change Your Mindset, Change Your Outcome
- How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD – What Every Parent Should Read
- The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. -Vince Lombardi
- Demonstrating Brain Potential
- Squeaky Shoes Change Habits
- FAQ – How Do You Change Habits?
- FAQ – How Are Habits Made?
- Body Growth Increases Spasticity
- Real Hope after Baby Brain Damage
- Real or False Hope after Early Brain Damage?
- Neuroplasticity in Action
- A wonderful example of persistence and neuroplasticity
- What Do You See?
- Test and Test Again: Brains Keep Growing
- What Can You Do With Half a Brain?
- Baby Brain Neuroplasticity
- Three R’s of Baby Brain Neuroplasticity
- Neuroplasticity in Cerebral Palsy
- Neuroplasticity and Hands II: Awareness Precedes Activation
- Neuroplasticity and Hands: Doing The Right Thing, At The Right Time, and In The Right Order
- “Lost Time is Never Found Again” Benjamin Franklin
- Take Advantage of the Periods of Peak Neuroplasticity
- Spasticity is a Body and Brain Habit
- Muscle Imbalance Hurts Growing Bodies
- The Good, the Bad & the Ugly Facts About Growth and Recovery
- Recovery In Cerebral Palsy Takes Time (and Fresh Thinking)
- The Woman Who Changed Her Brain And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young – New York: Free Press, 2012
- The Invisible Gorilla
- The Boy Who Could Run Better Than He Could Walk
- Baby Brains Can Recover – Pediatric Neuroplasticity
- How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD – New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007
- The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, MD – New York: Penguin Group, 2007
- Teens and Adults
- Alignment, Awareness, Recruitment and Strength
- A Surprising Outlier from the 1930s
- Adult Neuroplasticity Explained
- Revolutionize Your Approach To Therapy This Summer
- How Much Does It Hurt? Part 2
- How Much Does It Hurt?
- Wise words from Marina Morris
- An Intensive Experience by Erik Zimmerman – Adults with CP can Improve
- Impossible for the Child, Possible for an Adult
- Have you decided that your child’s function is “Good Enough”?
- Intensives In Puberty: Take Advantage of Neuroplasticity
- The Good, the Bad and The Ugly Facts about Adult CP
- Great Ideas
- Never Too Late
- The Early Years
- What Do I Do First?
- Real, Not False Hope
- What Were You Told About Cerebral Palsy?
- Trunk Support Changes Tone
- More On Trunk Support Changes Tone
- The Early Signs of “Activity Dependent Tone”
- 3 Steps To Hand Use: Alignment, Awareness and Activation
- Can You Stimulate Baby Brain Neuroplasticity?
- Too Little, Too Late
- When Was Your Child Diagnosed With CP?
- Stem Cell Therapy? It May Be Closer Than You Think
- Back to Basics – Alignment Comes First
- Evidence and Art by Kimberly Barthel, OTR
- Primary movement patterns explained
- Crawling: Normal, But Not Necessary
- The Middle Years
- Improving Hand Use
- Can Therapeutic Riding Help?
- Is This Good Enough? GMFCS Level III to V
- When is It Too Late for Changes in Speech?
- Does Your Child have ADHD?
- Habit Hides Recovery: What does your child’s teacher need to know?
- Better Through Play-Don’t Waste the Summer
- Revolutionize Your Approach To Therapy This Summer
- When Does Treatment Stop Being Research?
- Do You Want Your Child to Walk or to Walk Well?
- Set the Bar Higher
- Expectation Changes Intelligence
- Quick Fixes for 2014 – Stabilize the Wrist and Thumb
- Water Exercise for Children with Cerebral Palsy
- Billi Cusick’s Thoughts on Managing Children with Diplegic Cerebral Palsy
- Uncovering normal neurology
- Brachial Plexus Injury
- Cerebral Palsy
- Deep Water Jogging for Gait Training
- The Checklist Manifesto – How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande – New York: Picador, 2011
- Basic Water Exercise Program
- Outliers
- Resources
- Therapies & Techniques
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