ParentWise The Cerebral Palsy Foundation

Kate Strohm, founder of Siblings Australia, talks about the positive impact siblings can have on the wellbeing of a child with disability.

Angela Dew discusses the transition of care from ageing parents to siblings, for people with cerebral palsy 40 years and over.

For some children and adults with cerebral palsy, controlling saliva can be very difficult. In this podcast, speech pathologist, Leigha Dark, discusses why saliva is important for digestion and oral health and explores some of the treatments available to assist with managing problems with saliva in children with cerebral palsy.

The act of making sounds or speech is something most of us take for granted, yet 60% of children with cerebral palsy have some type of speech or articulation difficulty. In this podcast, speech pathologist, Leigha Dark, explores some of the problems that can arise with articulation for children with cerebral palsy and suggests some strategies for parents to help their child improve the way that they speak and produce sounds

Learning to communicate with others, and ensuring that you’re understood, is a vital part of any child’s early development. In this podcast, speech pathologist, Alana Bain, explains how children develop language, what’s different about that process for children with cerebral palsy and what parents can do to help their children develop language skills effectively.

Literacy, or the ability to read and write letters and text, is an important set of skills for your child to develop. However some research suggests that children with cerebral palsy - who may be non-verbal or who use augmentative or alternative communication (also known as AAC) - may experience delays with their literacy development. Can parents predict that their child will have difficulty with literacy? What can parents do to support their child to read and write if they do struggle with literacy? Speech Pathologist, Alana Bain, discusses these and other question in this podcast about literacy and children with cerebral palsy.