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McDonald Family Featured on CNN

On Friday, June 23, at 10:00 p.m., CNN aired a special report, Separated: Saving the Twins, hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. This hour-long documentary chronicled the complicated journey of Jadon and Anias, the previously conjoined craniopagus twins who underwent life-saving...

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In the Blink of an Eye

Amanda's mother sits silently in the hospital waiting room, heart thumping, trying to slow her breathing, praying between breaths. Her Amanda, her sweet, playful seven-year-old daughter, has suffered a major fall, and is in surgery for a traumatic brain injury...

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Schumer Pledges to Fight Medicaid Cuts

According to the Senator, the Administration's proposed budget would hurt more than 26,000 children in Westchester and Rockland Counties, and the cuts would mean that thousands of Hudson Valley children would lose access to affordable health care that working families...

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Hear My Voice, Watch Me Move - Assistive Technology and Children

Some children live locked in silence. Though they have so much to say, they cannot speak. Some cannot move or control much of their bodies. Others face a grim future of gradual loss of speech or movement, or both. They...

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Blythedale to Participate in TOM:NYC Makeathon

For children with complex medical needs, highly customized assistive devices typically prove to be costly and often difficult to come by. Enter TOM:NYC and a three-day Makeathon, in which teams of eight “makers” (engineers, product designers, developers and coders) will...

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  • Assistive Technology