Health and Wellness

  • PEDALS Community Outreach Center - provides community adapted cycling for children with disabilities at UCLA.
  • Lanterman Psychology Training Program Funded by the Dept. of Developmental Service, this training grant provides clinical psychology interns and post doctoral fellows with training in developmental disabilities.
  • Saturday Opportunities for Adapted Recreation (SOAR) Program - an adaptive recreation program for individuals with physical disabilities to include but not limited to Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida, Spinal cord Injury and Muscular Dystrophy. 
  • UCLA Orthopaedic Hospital/ Center for Cerebral Palsy - dedicated to improving function in children and adults with cerebral palsy through a program of timely diagnosis, comprehensive assessment and individualized treatment.
  • UCLA PEERS - serves adolescents and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their families. 

Health and Wellness - More detail

A Comparison of Psychopathology in Children with and without Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
A Controlled Social Skills Training for Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
Alcohol use and serious psychological distress among women of childbearing age
Behavioral Regulation as a Predictor of Response to Children's Friendship Training in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Brief Intervention for Alcohol Use by Pregnant Women
CaliforniaVolunteers and the Tarjan Center at UCLA Request for Proposals
Center for Cerebral Palsy
Education Revolution
For a UCLA Director, Disability Does Not Define a Person
Growth Hormone Therapy Improves Bone Mineral Density in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Preliminary Pilot Study
Health and Wellness at the Tarjan Center
Health care provider advice and risk factors associated with alcohol consumption following pregnancy recognition.
Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Youth Exposed to Alcohol Prenatally
Interventions for Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Transitioning Science to Community Projects
Joint moment contributions to swing knee extension acceleration during gait in children with spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy
Kameron Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory
Lower-extremity selective voluntary motor control in patients with spastic cerebral palsy: increased distal motor impairment
Mapping the Brain, the Face and Neurocognitive Function in FASD
Mapping white matter integrity and neurobehavioral correlates in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Neighborhood Alcohol and HIV Prevention in South African Townships
Paradigms for Alcohol Use and Co-occuring Behavioral Health Risk Factors Among Women of Childbearing Age
Pediatric Endurance and Limb Strengthening (PEDALS) for Children With Cerebral Palsy Using Stationary Cycling: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Pediatric endurance and limb strengthening for children with cerebral palsy (PEDALS) – a randomized controlled trial protocol for a stationary cycling intervention
People Magazine: Joey Makes Progress
Preconception Care for Reducing Alcohol Exposure in Pregnancy
Predictors of stress in parents of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Project Step Up: Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Youth Exposed to Alcohol Prenatally
Promotion of Physical Fitness and Prevention of Secondary Conditions for Children with Cerebral Palsy: Section on Pediatrics Research Summit Proceedings
Recognition and prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome.
Reducing Adverse Outcomes from Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: A Clinical Plan of Action
Reducing Health Disparities Among Children with FASDs
SEEDS Program at UCLA
Tarjan Advisory Committee member's son King for A Day at Staples Center
The Cerebral Palsy Clinic at UCLA Reached its 500th Patient
The effect of direct measurement versus cadaver estimates of anthropometry in the calculation of joint moments during above-knee prosthetic gait in pediatrics
The effect of lower extremity selective voluntary motor control on interjoint coordination during gait in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy
The Relationship Between Selective Voluntary Motor Control and Changes in Gait Kinematics Followed by Hamstring Lengthening Surgery in Children with Cerebral Palsy
Under Recognition of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure in a Child Inpatient Psychiatric Setting
Vendors of Tricycles for Children with Cerebral Palsy

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