FREQUENTLY COVERED DISEASES
If a child has a neurologic and degenerative disease not listed, we encourage you to complete an application and submit for our consideration.
* Lori's Voice may assist with accessible vans in every Michigan county.
Lori's Voice will cover 2 vans in a lifetime and only one every 5 years.
* Lori's Voice may assist with accessible vans in every Michigan county.
Lori's Voice will cover 2 vans in a lifetime and only one every 5 years.
Muscular Dystrophy Types Affecting Children:
Becker Congenital Duchenne Distal Emery-Dreifuss Facioscapulohumeral Myotonic (subset of congenital) Limb-Girdle Multiple Sclerosis Types: Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Secondary-Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Progressive-Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis Primary-Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Spinal muscular atrophies: Infantile progressive spinal muscular atrophy Intermediate spinal muscular atrophy Juvenile spinal muscular atrophy Bethlem Myopathy Inflammatory myopathies: Dermatomyositis Inclusion body myositis Polymyositis Diseases of peripheral nerve: Charcot-Marie tooth disease Dejerine-Sottas disease Friedreich's ataxia Diseases of the neuromuscular junction: Botulism Lambert-Eaton syndrome |
Metabolic disease of the muscle:
Acid maltase deficiency Carnitine deficiency Central core disease Hyperthyroid myopathy Hypothyroid Myopathy Lactate dehydrogenase deficiency Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes (CMS) Myophosphorylase Deficiency (There are many metabolic diseases of the muscle too numerous to list) Less common myopathies: Mitochondrial myopathy Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency Myotonia congenita Myotubular myopathy Nemaline myopathy Paramyotonia congenita Periodic paralysis-hypokalemic-hyperkalemic Peripheral neuropathy Phosphofructokinase deficiency Phosphoglycerate kinase deficiency Phosphorylase deficiency Poliomyelitis Polyneuropathy Radiculopathy Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy Spinal muscular atrophy Spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress type 1 Stiff person syndrome Troyer syndrome Juvenile Myasthenia gravis (JMG) Acute Flaccid Myelitis Demyelinating Diseases that result in impaired muscular control Cerebral Palsy Types: Ataxic Dyskinetic Spastic Other: Spina bifida |