By Traci Hacker

United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) launched a new grant program to help fund the study of early childhood diagnosis, treatment and causes of cerebral palsy and related intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD). The program will award individual grants of up to $20,000 to researchers in the United States and Canada. Grant applications are currently available, and applications will be accepted through June 27, 2022. The pilot grant program is part of a broader, long-term initiative being developed by UCP to support and encourage research into the causes, diagnoses, and treatments of cerebral palsy and I/DD. The grant program was developed by UCP’s ad…