For decades, cerebral palsy (CP) was often diagnosed after a child’s second birthday, when missed milestones and movement challenges became harder to ignore. Today, that timeline is changing, thanks to a groundbreaking early-detection program led by therapists and physicians at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. “This program started with a simple but powerful idea: if…
Noah Jaffe and Grace Lockwood have a lot in common. Both are about to be high school juniors. Both are skilled swimmers — multi-time champions, in fact. And both are awesome examples of athletes with cerebral palsy changing the future of the sports they love. Swim was a part of the teens’ lives before CP…