Dr. Helen Carlson

During the course of our rehabilitation clinical trials, we have found that kids with cerebral palsy (CP) rarely meet others with the same life challenges. The Adventure Awaits Activity ebook is intended to highlight kids with CP and their stories. Each page in the activity book showcases a child with CP and their story. Each child has provided a favourite recipe, scientific experiment, craft, or sporty activity (or all four) as well as a short biography about themselves. They have also shared what they would like to tell other kids, what they do for fun, their hobbies, favourite movie, favourite book, favourite sports teams, and more. Also included are some adults who experience cerebral palsy and their stories. Activities from our rehabilitation day camp (SPORT) are also included as an Amazing Race through various countries. We hope this activity book will help kids with CP be active and have fun.

Traditional brain neuroimaging studies rely heavily on group-level statistics of complex data, often obscuring important individual differences. This emphasizes the need for robust, patient-specific methods of characterizing brain development over the course of childhood. The FIDELITI (Fingerprinting Individual Differences in Lesion Impact Through Imaging) Dashboard provides a novel way to explore differences between an individual’s brain map and a large group of controls using normative modelling. Similar statistical techniques are commonly used to identify departures from typical developmental trajectories (i.e., height and weight developmental trajectory curves). We have extended these concepts to create a brain health dashboard composed of personalized brain charts. This will allow us to quantify individualized brain development in children with neurological conditions such perinatal stroke and can potentially be applied to other neurological conditions in children.