Resources Available for Peter as he was growing up

Shriner’s Hospital: Peter was able to receive a Athetoid very evasive surgery on his left leg to stop the growth in one leg with the other leg caught up. He was hospitalized for a few months so that he could receive and recover from Cerebral the surgery. This was free of charge and the services there were excellent. It was Peter’s home away from home. Palsy

Para-professional: Without Peter’s aids in school he would not have been able to participate in general education classes. If you ask Peter what was the best service he was provided with growing up he will tell you it was his aids.

Alta California Regional Center: This Regional center was an amazing advocacy group among many other things. They work in partnership with many other organizations in the community to pull resources for all of their consumers. Whether Peter needed a communication device, afterschool homework help, or even counseling, Alta California Regional Center was there to help find a way.

REFERENCES www.pickonline.org/resource/3/ http://www.lawyershop.com/practice- areas/cerebral-palsy/glossary http://www.altaregional.org/community/providerc orner/

PETER JOHN WHAT IS CEREBRAL Who is Peter Gallo? PALSY? Peter is a 22yr. old boy who has Athetoid . He loves being independent and PETER’S Cerebral palsy is a term used to has a lot of patience and endurance when it describe a group of chronic conditions comes to living with his disability. He is very ACCOMODATIONS affecting body movements and muscle intelligent when it comes to computers; he’s even DURING AND POST coordination. It is caused by damage helped build one from the inside out. He walks to one or more specific areas of the around with a permanent smile on his face and SCHOOL YEARS. brain, usually occurring during fetal often gets the label from friends, family or development or infancy. It also can strangers, “angel from God”.  One-on-one Para-Professional occur before, during, or shortly following birth. How does Peter’s brain  Minimal Homework work?  Computer-based projects 3 MAIN TYPES OF Many children with cerebral palsy are within the normal range of intelligence and have no particular  Type assignments instead of CEREBRAL PALSY problem in their cognitive development. In some writing. cases, the brain that causes the cerebral Athetoid: This type accounts for roughly 20% of palsy has also affected the child’s ability  Art Class all cases of cerebral palsy. This type of cerebral to think. These children may have problems palsy is caused by damage to the organizing the information into action. Learning  Dynavox Communication Device of the brain that results in uncontrolled disabilities are common in children with cerebral movements of the hands, feet, legs, and arms. palsy. Children who cannot make their  Speech Therapist muscles work the way they want them to or whose Ataxic: is muscles do something unexpected have many  Physical Therapist characterized by a weakness in the muscles problems becoming skillful at using their eyes and and wobbly, shaky movements. People who hands together to explore the world. Peter is very  Inclusion for all general have ataxic cerebral palsy will often have a science minded. In school he loved any type of education classes w/ modified difficult time balancing and will exhibit workload. poor depth perception. science or history class and even though he may not have been able to complete the workloads for  Learn cooking, cleaning, and Spastic: A form of cerebral palsy that the classes, he retained every bit of information he other independent life skills in causes tightness in the muscles. Because of saw or heard. He is very hands on, he’s a visual the SPED classroom. this tightness, learner. He is a big problem-solver; he’s good at patients have a difficult time controlling troubleshooting situations with his computer and in  Handi-van their movement. Their motions may be day to day life. When Peter has an idea that he’d abrupt and jerky. Spastic cerebral palsy is like to say or express, putting into words what he’s  *Love seen (to some degree) in 80 percent of thinking can sometimes be very difficult. This is cerebral palsy cases. when he needs himself and others to practice patience. In all, I consider him a genius!