The mother of a child with cerebral palsy recounts her daughter's efforts to walk after surgery. (CL)

The author, a college senior, with cerebral palsy, advocates integration of most physically handicapped children into regular classes on the basis of her own experiences in regular schools and classes. (DB)

A school nurse recounts ways in which intervention and family efforts improved functioning in a child with cerebral palsy. (CL)

Children and youth in foster care are a vulnerable population. They are at risk for abuse, neglect, and permanent separation from birth parents and have a greater incidence of emotional and behavioral difficulties. This is not surprising because these children are abused, neglected, or abandoned by the very people who are supposed to love and care…

A secondary student with cerebral palsy describes his pride in playing drums and percussion with his school's marching band in the Tournament of Roses Parade. (CL)

The author discusses the development of social skills by the physically disabled adolescent, ways parents can help, the development of intimate adult relationships, and the effects of cerebral palsy on sexuality. Five organizations for the disabled or their families are listed. (DB)

Communication can be difficult for children with conditions such as cerebral palsy because of speech and physical impairments. For this group of children, choice-making is often limited to choices of personal preferences; however, preferences do not reveal intellectual abilities. Therefore, choice-making should be presented to these children in…

The author, a woman with cerebral palsy, discusses her experiences with adapting microcomputers to her functional skills and describes the inception and growth of the Committee on Personal Computers and the Handicapped (part of the Congress of Organizations of the Physically Handicapped). (CL)

Summarized are the organization and activities of United Cerebral Palsy Associations, Inc. (KW)

A mother reviews the family's experiences with a young cerebral palsied daughter, including schooling, travel, and summer camp. The daughter herself, now an adult, remembers early struggles to communicate. (CL)

The parent of a cerebral palsied child with spastic quadriplegia relates the process of arriving at the decision to utilize tube feeding via a surgically placed gastrostomy. (DB)

A 15-year-old with cerebral palsy who has experienced adjustment problems in a regular high school comes to talk with a counselor, as do her mother and father. The counselor notes the normal adolescent challenges and suggests ways the whole family can learn to communicate and support each other. (CL)

A specially adapted microcomputer has enabled a 15-year-old severely disabled girl with cerebral palsy to participate in a mainstreamed seventh-grade class. Her parents insisted that her individualized education program specify access to an in-school computer. (CL)

A man with cerebral palsy recounts his experiences as a young child and notes the frustrations in not being able to communicate other than by indicating "yes" or "no." He used a headpointer, typewriter, and communication board before finally experiencing the freedom of an electronic communication system with speech output. (CL)

A psychotherapist with cerebral palsy recounts her own experience and the need of disabled persons to view their sexuality with openness and acceptance, develop a desirable body image, and reject the mystique of the idealized vision of sexuality. (DB)