The USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physicial Therapy’s Stacey Dusing, PhD, PT, Sykes Family Chair in Pediatric Physical Therapy, Pediatric Health and Development, has received a Department of Health Services USC Safety Net Innovation Award by the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute to help inform primary care providers on the importance of and procedures for early detection of cerebral palsy across all eligible DHS hospitals.

Currently, all primary care providers can screen for developmental delays, but special training is needed to identify babies with early signs of cerebral palsy or other difficulties, and many providers don’t even know it is possible to identify those at the highest risk in the first 6 months of life, before they are delayed.

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