Skip to content
UM System Logo
Community Connect
What we do together
  • About
  • Events
  • News
  • Resources 
    • Veterans Resources
  • Resources
  • Veterans & Military-affiliated Resources
  • Add Engagement
  • Edit Engagements
  • See Our Impact
  • Engagement Mapping
  • Community Connect Sites 
    • Mizzou Community Connect
    • UMKC Community Connect
    • S&T Community Connect
    • UMSL Community Connect
  • About
  • Events
  • News
  • Resources 
    • Veterans Resources
  • Resources
  • Veterans & Military-affiliated Resources
  • Add Engagement
  • Edit Engagements
  • See Our Impact
  • Engagement Mapping
  • Community Connect Sites 
    • Mizzou Community Connect
    • UMKC Community Connect
    • S&T Community Connect
    • UMSL Community Connect
Facebook share button Twitter share button
1505088000
1754812798
MU ★  Community Education, Youth

Go, Baby, Go

Occupational Therapy faculty member Bill Janes manages a chapter of Go, Baby, Go in which students from OT, PT, Speech and even engineering work together to modify ride-on toy cars to improve and study mobility in children.

ongoing: The chapter was started in 2016, and has continued to provide service since then.
Go, Baby, Go

GoBabyGo modifies toy ride-on cars at a low cost to provide power mobility on an individualized basis. This project is a collaborative effort between Mizzou physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech, and engineering students.

See Go, Baby, Go in the news!

Linked Video 

Impact

Sunday, September 10, about 15 occupational therapy, physical therapy and engineering students from the University of Missouri created custom-fit toy cars based on clinical assessments to improve the movements of day-to-day life for the children. The College of Health Sciences at the University of Delaware started the Go, Baby Go! program. There are now about 40 programs across the nation hosting their own programs.
themes list badge
Disability, Education, Youth Programming

Date

  
ongoing

Contact

Bill Janes
  janesw@health.missouri.edu
  573-882-4183

Partners

MU Women's and Children's Hospital
  573-875-9000
  https://www.muhealth.org/locations/womens-and-childrens
School of Health Professions
  umhsshpcomm@health.missouri.edu
  573-884-6705
  https://healthprofessions.missouri.edu/

Location

  Clark Hall, 701 S Providence Rd, Columbia, MO 65203, USA

More Information

https://healthprofessions.missouri.edu/occupational-therapy/2017/09/11/go-baby-go-mizzou/

Most Recently Added

MU, S&T, UM System, UMKC logo

Discovery Series: “Football, Traumatic Brain Injury, and long-Term Outcomes”

MU, S&T, UM System, UMKC

Michael Cosmopoulos explores the origins of Greek epics in new book, ‘The World of Homer’

UMSL

NextGen Postdoctoral Fellowship Info Session

MU, S&T, UM System, UMKC, UMSL

Discovery Series: “Trapped in Thought: Understanding Depression and Trauma Through the Brain”

MU, S&T, UM System, UMKC, UMSL

0

Explore More Engagements

<< Marco: The Invented Truth Film Screening, directed by Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño
NextGen Postdoctoral Fellowship Info Session >>

Explore More Engagements

<< Marco: The Invented Truth Film Screening, directed by Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño
UMKC Arts & Culture, Community Education
NextGen Postdoctoral Fellowship Info Session >>
MU, S&T, UM System, UMKC, UMSL Health, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math), Training & Professional Development, UM System Collaborations
  • University of Missouri System Community Connect
  • Mizzou Community Connect
  • UMKC Community Connect
  • Missouri S&T Community Connect
  • UMSL Community Connect
  • UM System
  • University of Missouri – Columbia
  • University of Missouri – Kansas City
  • Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • University of Missouri – St. Louis
  • About Community Connect
  • Login
  • Contact
um system seal
Copyright ©2025 Curators of the University of Missouri. All Rights Reserved.