MEETING THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIESCHILD WITH CEREBRAL

PALSY

Name : Li Juan Zhu(Peggy)

Course Code: ECEP 233

Date: March18, 12

Introduce to the child and the family

Ben and Jerry are twins moved to Toronto recently Ben has Cerebral Palsy Ben uses walker has little strength in his left hand Two boys live with mother, stepfather and

stepfather’s teen daughter Ben and Jerry’s biological dad lives in North Bay Their mother look for services in Toronto area

Introduction to individual special need

"Cerebral" refers to the brain and "Palsy" to a disorder of the way you move and act

Cerebral Palsy is characterized by an inability to fully control movement function

Muscle tightness or spasm Involuntary movement Disturbance in gait and mobility Impairment of sight, hearing or speech Seizures

Meeting the needs in the child care centre Families and professionals work as a team Services are flexible to meet unique family

needs  Give more time let children to complete the

activities Follow rule and routine in a group Limit distraction, not put out too many toys use children interests to keep them participate Use picture in sequence help them to learn Use large knobs on puzzles

Overview of referred agency/ agencies and resources

OFCP, Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy received 2012 annual reward to provide services people who has disability

Brochures, booklets, videos, DVDs regarding cerebral palsy are provide

Special service at home Amount of service child needs

http://www.ofcp.ca/finres.php

Self-Evaluation

From this research assignment I have learned different types of Cerebral Palsy

Got to know symptoms of child with Cerebral Palsy

Some of challenge was to find the agency in the Great Toronto Area and I was not able to embedded in the website

It took me a period of time to find a right agency