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Our Mission

Go Baby Go Oregon’s mission is to support kids being kids through innovative, cost-effective and inclusive solutions to promote mobility, play, participation, and socialization.

We are a community-based outreach program that works with families, clinicians and industry to provide pediatric equipment in the form of ride-on toy cars, adapted toys, and adapted books to children with disabilities for movement, participation, play, and socialization. We support families all throughout Oregon and Southern Washington.

Many children with disabilities are unable to be independently mobile, or require expensive, awkward, and potentially socially stigmatizing equipment in order to move and play with family and friends. Left stationary or heavily reliant on others for mobility and communication, these children have reduced opportunities for social interaction and engagement. Thirty years of research has consistently demonstrated the cognitive, motor, language, and social benefits to children with motor disabilities when provided access to assistive technology during early childhood (6 months to three years old). However, there are many barriers in obtaining devices at a young age. Go Baby Go hopes to fulfill this gap in technology.

 
 
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"Just to see their faces light up and being able to explore, that has been really special to witness in so many kids that we've served now,"

— Dr. Bethany Sloane, Assistant Professor, OHSU