Raising a child with cerebral palsy can feel difficult, but it’s not impossible. When searching for answers, parents find there are a number of misconceptions surrounding life with cerebral palsy. With that being said, cerebral palsy is so widely different from child to child, so what I say here might affect your child but not […]

I have been working in a healthcare setting for almost five years now, but at twenty-one years old I was faced with a speech delayed toddler I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. I would like to share with you some of the things I learned over the years while traveling with my […]

Monday, July 25, 2016 I was driving back to the office after running errands over lunch. I’d just hung up the phone with a nurse from the local children’s hospital, who had called to discuss details of Maddie’s upcoming heart surgery. I laughed to myself as I looked down at my phone, and saw the […]

Our journey as a “special needs” family began in June 2016 when our older son Daniel, then four-and-a-half, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Later that year, October 2016, was the first time a professional threw out the A-word at us, when a psychologist who saw us for a family session asked why we had […]

Hello, I want to introduce myself to you. I am Chris Lenart, and I have Cerebral Palsy. I have had a wonderful life so far, and I hope that you can be encouraged as I tell you a little bit about myself and what I have been doing the last two years. So let’s get […]