World Cerebral Palsy Day

 

 

 

WORLD CEREBAL PALSY DAY- OCTOBER 2, 2013

Facts:

• Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of disorders that affect a person's ability to make and maintain balance and posture.
• The most common type of CP is spastic CP. This type affects about 80% of people with cerebral palsy.
• There are more boys born with cerebral palsy than girls (for every 100 girls there are 135 boys).
• About one-half of children born with CP are born prematurely.
• Stroke in a baby or child less than the age of 3 results in CP.
• One in nine people with CP have features of autism.
• Six of 10 people with CP have normal or superior intelligence.
• One in four children with CP cannot feed themselves.
• Research into the cure, prevention and treatment of CP receives less than 0.05 percent of the total NIH budget.

World Cerebral Palsy Day began in 2012 by Cerebral Palsy Alliance in Australia and United Cerebral Palsy in the United States. Today, the project is supported by organizations in over 30 countries from Australia to Zambia.
World CP Day is a global innovation project. The goal is to change the World for people living with cerebral palsy and their families.
Each year, people with cerebral palsy and their families and supporters, post an idea for something that would change their world. People have the opportunity to present their idea via video or text and post it on the World CP Day website from mid July to October 31st.

By December, all ideas are reviewed by an international panel including people with cerebral palsy. Three of the ideas are placed on a shortlist. Any inventor/researcher or creator is invited to create a design for one of the shortlist ideas. The winner will receive a prize of $50,000.