The scholarships you help provide will support children with hemiplegia to attend the science-based constraint-induced movement therapy intensive camp.
The 90-hour program runs over 3 weeks, which is the research-based protocol. Children who participate in this program make significant gains in their ability to use their affected arm for functional activities such as eating, dressing, and playing.
This fund is to help families who come every year afford camp this year due to lost income because of recent worldwide events, and due to the increased costs to ensure the safety and health of all participants under new guidelines.
Due to the children's' significant medical and therapy needs, this program is staffed by highly-trained physical and occupational therapists.
The ultimate goal of this therapy is to allow individuals to become self-reliant and independent. This is also an opportunity for children to be with like-abled peers in a fun, camp-like environment which for most campers, is not available elsewhere.
Cindy Jackson MS PT owns Children's Therapy Services of Cheshire, CT (www.childrenstherapyservices.org). She has operated the Constraint-Induced Therapy Camp for the past 15 years. Cindy runs a Birth-to-Three agency and school-based therapy in Northwest CT, and is Chairperson of the CT State Birth-to-Three Interagency Coordinating Council. She has three grown children and a stellar husband who all work (and schlep!) at Camp.
The 90-hour program runs over 3 weeks, which is the research-based protocol. Children who participate in this program make significant gains in their ability to use their affected arm for functional activities such as eating, dressing, and playing.
This fund is to help families who come every year afford camp this year due to lost income because of recent worldwide events, and due to the increased costs to ensure the safety and health of all participants under new guidelines.
Due to the children's' significant medical and therapy needs, this program is staffed by highly-trained physical and occupational therapists.
The ultimate goal of this therapy is to allow individuals to become self-reliant and independent. This is also an opportunity for children to be with like-abled peers in a fun, camp-like environment which for most campers, is not available elsewhere.
Cindy Jackson MS PT owns Children's Therapy Services of Cheshire, CT (www.childrenstherapyservices.org). She has operated the Constraint-Induced Therapy Camp for the past 15 years. Cindy runs a Birth-to-Three agency and school-based therapy in Northwest CT, and is Chairperson of the CT State Birth-to-Three Interagency Coordinating Council. She has three grown children and a stellar husband who all work (and schlep!) at Camp.
Organizer and beneficiary
Cindy Jackson
Beneficiary