Cub Scouts Add New Achievement Award for Disability Awareness
Requirements are now outlined for Cub Scouts to earn a Belt Loop or Academics Pin in the area of Disability Awareness. Scouts may complete the requirements in various environments and doing such things as visiting with and getting to know someone with a disability, attending a disability related event and sharing thoughts about the experience, making a display about a disability to share, safely trying to use an assistive device, learning the Cub Scout Promise and motto in sign language, and many more.
For more information, go to http://usscouts.org/usscouts/advance/cubscout/academics/disabilities.asp.
Cerebral Palsy and Robotics: Video Story from the Today Show
Using robots could be an alternative therapy in helping children with cerebral palsy.
To watch this video from a recent Today show, go to http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/34255416#34255416
Good News on Cerebral Palsy: Learning His Body, Learning to Dance, December 13, 2009
By Neil Genzlinger, NYT
Gregg Mozgala, a 31-year-old actor with cerebral palsy, had 12 years of physical therapy while he was growing up. But in the last eight months, a determined choreographer with an unconventional resume has done what all those therapists could not: she has dramatically changed the way Mozgala walks.
To read more, go to http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/233838/good-news-cerebral-palsy-learning-his-body-learning-dance.