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Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy
Hemiparesis
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Have Strokes Blog - pediatric stroke research links and pediatric
stroke awareness
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Stroke Hope - read stories of hope about children who have
hemiplegia due to an early stroke
Visit
the Children's Hemiplegia and Stroke
Association (CHASA) website to
learn more about hemiplegia and hemiplegic cerebral palsy.
You'll find lots of information about daily living skills, how to
adapt sports to fit your child's needs, causes and treatment of
hemiplegia, how to work with the school system, speech and
language therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and the
annual CHASA family retreat and medical conference.
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Hemi-Kids
is an email discussion group where parents of infants and children
who have mild to moderate hemiplegia or hemiplegic cerebral palsy share
information. Hemi-Kids was created to serve
a group of children who tend to "fall through the
cracks". In many ways, these children live a pretty
"typical" life and often don't quite fit into the world of
children who have disabilities. Yet, they don't quite fit
into the "typically developing" world, either. The
parents on Hemi-Kids understand the challenges of parenting a
child with mild to moderate hemiplegia.
When you found out that your baby or toddler had hemiplegia,
hemiparesis or cerebral palsy, did you feel like you were the only parent going through this? We'd
like for you to know that you are not alone. Hemi-Kids is a
world-wide network of over 1,600 families of children who have mild to
moderate hemiplegia
or hemiplegic cerebral palsy. These children have hemiplegia
for many different reasons: infant or childhood unilateral stroke survivors,
children who have had a
hemispherectomy, a
brain tumor, a traumatic brain injury, unilateral brain bleed due to
prematurity, the result of an infection, and a host of other more
rare causes.
Joining Hemi-Kids is a
great way to
locate other families in your area who have children with a
diagnosis of hemiplegia.
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