Thursday, February 24, 2011

Need for daycare centre for Cerebral Palsy kids
Thursday, February 24 2011

President of the Cerebral Palsy Parents’ Association, Crystal Jones, is pleading with the Minister of the People and Social Development, Glenn Ramadarsingh and Prime Minister Kamla Persad- Bissessar to have established, a daycare centre for children with Cerebral Palsy.

They also noted a severe need to provide counselling for parents who are overwhelmed by their situation.

According to Jones, because many parents have no one to take care of their disabled children, parents usually have three options: leave the disabled child at home alone while they go to work; don’t work and stay home to take care of the child, or leave the disabled child with siblings.

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