Set in 1917 in a small Australian outback town and against the backdrop of a nation at war, Let the Balloon Go is a poignant story of a boy and his family. Young John Sumner has contracted polio and wears a leg brace. He also suffers mild epilepsy. While his brothers fight in the war overseas, John fights a much more personal battle – the battle for his own freedom. His over-anxious mother is afraid to let him play games and climb trees like other...

Maya DiMeo (Minnie Driver) is the mom who will do anything for her husband Jimmy (John Ross Bowie) and kids Ray (Mason Cook), Dylan (Kyla Kenedy), and J.J. (Micah Fowler), her eldest son with cerebral palsy. In season two of this amusing and often unexpected comedy, the family, along with JJ's aide Kenneth (Cedric Yarbrough), is reunited after JJ's first summer camp adventure. As the new school year approaches, the DiMeos, who have been searching...

A video from ECU's archive of documentaries and teaching films. Equal Chances - an initiative of the Cerebral Palsy Association of WA Ltd, produced by Edith Cowan University. This program shows children with cerebral palsy participating in school life with their peers and teachers. It discusses the causes and types of cerebral palsy and demonstrates how teachers and therapists work together to achieve positive outcomes. "Equal Chances" is about children...

A young man born with Cerebral Palsy battles a paralyzed left hand, bullies and stereotypes about the disabled to defy the odds and make it as a rock and roll guitarist.

This video illustrates the therapist's role as consultant to families with children who have eating problems. A preschool child with cerebral palsy is observed being fed by her mother, as a developmental approach is used to analyze positioning, feeding methods, oral reflexes, and developmental behaviors. Techniques to facilitate more appropriate feeding methods and positive interaction are then discussed and demonstrated by the therapist.

Body and Soul: Diana and Kathy, directed by Academy Award-nominee Alice Elliott, is a look at an unusual, symbiotic relationship between two people some would call profoundly disabled. Two of the country's most remarkable advocates for people with disabilities, Diana Braun, who has Down Syndrome, and Kathy Conour, who has cerebral palsy, met three decades ago and vowed to fight to live independent lives. Told in an intimate, verite style, the film...

This video, winner of the Sage Award by the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, presents a comprehensive range of prehension behaviors, grouped into self-contained Developmental Sequence Clusters, which demonstrate how skills at each level lead to those at the next. Major topics include involuntary-reflexive patterns (the arms in supine and prone, the ATNR, grasping, placing, and avoiding responses); and voluntary movements...

Baseball was so much more than a game for Reid Davenport when he was growing up. It was about belonging and being a teammate, despite having cerebral palsy. While Reid didn’t play, he relished talking about his beloved New York Yankees with his teammates, eating sunflower seeds and yelling advice to players. This was the closest Reid would ever come to playing the game he loved.. However, as Reid entered his teenage years, he started to feel increasingly...

Winner of multiple audience awards, States of Grace intimately captures the profound transformation of a revered physician and her family in the wake of a life-changing accident. For Dr. Grace Dammann, a pioneering AIDS specialist who was honored by the Dalai Lama, a routine commute across the Golden Gate Bridge turned tragic when another driver crashed head on into her car. After seven weeks in a coma and a dozen surgeries, Grace miraculously awakened...