Members' magazine

HemiHelp produces a quarterly members' magazine, where members can not only read about the latest in everything from gadgets to research studies, but can also share their own problems, hopes and experiences.

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Issue 68 (Winter 2008):

  Features include:

• Over 16s Issue: Teenagers and adults share their experiences of living with hemiplegia 
• Summary of the results of HemiHelp's Over 16s survey
• Meet the Trustees
• Personal accounts of volunteering, going to university and work experience placements
• Relationships and parenthood
• Physiotherapy in adulthood
• Benefits at age 16+
• Cambridge Professionals Conference report
• Englefield Fun Day report
• Regular features: Noticeboard, Letters, One handed hints, Tried and Tested, Charlotte's Column, Samantha's World, Fundraising and Events Calendar 

Issue 67 (Autumn 2008): 

 Features include:

• Children and young people living with hemiplegia speak out
• First hand accounts of school, taking part in activities, having an operation and driving
• Parents and siblings' perspectives
• Balance training stabilisers
• How ballet helped one member's hemiplegia
• Edinburgh Fun Day report

Issue 66 (Summer 2008): Professionals

Features include:

• Professionals: a guide to the people who work with hemiplegia
• Occupational Therapy (OT) and Special Needs
• Speech and language therapy
• Botulinum toxin treatment
• NEW! First installment of "Samantha's World", a fictional serial about a woman with hemiplegia

Issue 65 (Spring 2008): One Handed Hints

Features include:

• One Handed Hints (tips on using shopping trolleys and carrier bags, skipping and bathing)
• Educational issues for children with hemiplegia
• Sources of support: home visiting services, helpline, Local Groups
• Should you tell a potential employer about your disability?
• Recipe for success: tips on one handed cooking

Issue 64 (Winter 2007): Complementary therapies

Features include:

• The Bowen Technique
• Cranial Osteopathy
• Craniosacral Therapy
• Yoga for children with hemiplegia
• The Feldenkrais Method
• One Handed Hints

Issue 63 (Autumn 2007): Grants and benefits

Features include:

• How will I cope financially? A guide to disability benefits by the Director of the Special Needs Information Point
• Could you be eligible for a Family Fund grant?
• Edinburgh Conference for Parents - a write-up on the conference with details on research into hemiplegia and handedness, and being a parent of a child with additional support needs
• Introducing Charlotte - our new, 16-year-old columnist

Issue 62 (Summer 2007): Music

Features include:

• HemiHelp Music Workshops: hemiplegia, harmony and a haunted house!
• Children Helping Children - photos from February's fantastic fundraising concert
• Helping children to reach their potential - a feature on Musical Keys, a Norfolk charity offering musical activities to children with special needs
• Jake's a superhero! - a profile of Jake Waby, a young musician who has right hemiplegia
• "It may not be as fast, but my rhythm is just as good" - a young woman with hemiplegia talks about how music has become a passion in her life.

Issue 61 (Spring 2007): Holidays

Features include:

• Holidaying with hemiplegia
• Getting off to a flying start: tips for a good flight
• Travel insurance - what to look for
• Special educational needs and statementing
• Occupational therapy
• Happy campers: going to the Reading Festival as a disabled ticket holder

Read Achieving independence: Occupational therapy for children with hemiplegia, an article from Issue 61

Issue 60 (Winter 2006): Behaviour

Features include:

• The stresses that can't be seen: Dr Ian Frampton talks about why children with hemiplegia often have behaviour problems
• Update on Glasgow conference for professionals
• Review of Crawley conference for parents
• Letter from America: The first column in a regular series of dispatches from the USA.
• It's not the end of the world: a 23-year-old gives her perspective on the frustrations of growing up with hemiplegia.

Read The stresses that can't be seen, an article from Issue 60.

Issue 59 (Autumn 2006): Transition

Features include:

• How children are supported through the many stages of education
• One student's mixed experience of support in further and higher education
• 'The stroke that changed my life'
• Learning to balance and ride a bike