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Mother Charged In Death Of Teen With Cerebral Palsy
A mother and three nurses have been indicted in the death of a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who weighed only 28 pounds. Makayla Norman died March 1 from nutritional and medical neglect complicated by her chronic condition, according to the county coroner’s office. “She was the worst malnourished child this office has ever seen,” Ken Betz, director of the coroner’s office, said. According to authorities, the girl died within minutes of paramedics rushing her to the hospital. Her body had numerous bedsores and other signs of neglect, said prosecutors, and her home was vile and filthy. A grand jury in Dayton, Ohio, charged the mother, Angela Norman, 42 with involuntary manslaughter as well as a felony and misdemeanor count of endangering children. Mollie Parsons, 41, was the girl’s primary nurse. The jury charged her with involuntary manslaughter, failing to provide for a functionally impaired person and tampering with records….
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Some Considerations For Disabled iPad Users
There has been a recent surge in the use of new technology for assisting in communication with sufferers of cerebral palsy, namely in Apple’s iPad. Some parents of children with cerebral palsy and other birth defects are finding great benefits in using the iPad to communicate with their child in ways they would have never imagined a few years ago. There are parents of disabled children who have gone so far as to design applications themselves, using their intimate knowledge of their child’s limitations to create programs that cater to it. Michael Brooks, the father of a daughter with cerebral palsy, set up a website called Mia’s Apps, where other families can download the apps he designed to communicate with his daughter. The practice of using apps has spread widely enough to create the need for workshops designed around teaching parents how to use technology like the iPad with their…
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New Stimulation Technique Reduces Symptoms of Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy involves disturbances of the brain and nervous system functions that can often cause disturbances with motor functions, including spastic movements. In Sydney, Australia, doctors are performing a clinical trial with deep brain stimulation to treat these spastic movements. Though deep brain stimulation is not a cure for this aspect of cerebral palsy, the technique can make daily tasks much easier for people with cerebral palsy. For example, doctors diagnosed Martha Siede with cerebral palsy as a baby, and she has been unable to eat or dress without help from someone else, according to Nambucca Guardian. Now, at age 36, Siede states that she notices a big difference with her involuntary movements, in that they are not as often as before she began treatment with deep brain stimulation. The procedure includes doctors placing a pacemaker in the patient’s chest, with two wires that emit electric pulses to a specific…
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