Cerebral Palsy

BofA Gives Family With Special Needs Daughter Break On Foreclosed Home

Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Video, Foreclosure Crisis, Cerebral Palsy, Occupy Wall Street, Bank of America, Dirma Rodriguez, Foreclosure, Occupy Fights Foreclosures, Occupy Movement, Suzanne O'keeffe, Good News News

There's finally some good news for Dirma Rodriguez and her three children. The family was evicted from the Los Angeles home they'd lived in for ove...

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Mom Gets 9 Years In Teen With Cerebral Palsy's Malnutrition Death

AP | LISA CORNWELL | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Mother Starved Daughter to Death, Crime News, Mug Shots, Cerebral Palsy Child Malnourished, Ohio, Malnourishment Death, Malnourishment, Mother Starved Teen, Starved to Death, Makayla Norman, Video, Angela Norman, Cerebral Palsy, Angela Norman Sentenced, Angela Norman Gets 9 Years, Crime News

CINCINNATI — The mother of a 14-year-old girl who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds when she died last year was sentenced Thursday to nin...

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5-Year-Old With Cerebral Palsy Says Her First Words

Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Girl With Cerebral Palsy Says First Words, Video, I Love You Mum, 5 Year Old Says First Words, Cerebral Palsy, I Love You Mom, Lexie Barnes-Cooper, Parents News

One British couple waited five years to hear their daughter's first words, and they came through an eye-recognition computer that helps people communi...

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WATCH: Teen's Very Athletic Prom Dates

Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Linda-Watson, Mizzou Football, Corbin Berkstresser, Video, Mizzou Football Prom, Tj Moe, Missouri Football Prom, Cerebral Palsy, Teen With Cerebral Palsy, Missouri Football, Teen News

Linda Watson has always been a big fan of the Missouri Tigers. So when prom season rolled around, her teachers did their best to give the high scho...

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Teacher Rallies Community To Give Student With Cerebral Palsy Trip Of A Lifetime

Naperville Patch | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Danielle Sulaski, Disney World, Morgan's Wonderland, Jennifer Thorsen, We Are Teachers, Cerebral Palsy, Impact News

Speech therapist Jennifer Thorsen works with a lot of wonderful children, but one of her young students has made such an impression that Thorsen knew ...

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WATCH: This Incredibly Dedicated Grandma

Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Congenital Cerebral Palsy, Video, Xiang Yuncui, Cerebral Palsy, Grandma Carries Granddaughter to School, Grandma Carries Granddaughter, Good News News

Every school day, Xiang Yuncui gets up at 5 a.m. to make breakfast for her 7-year-old granddaughter, Tan. Yuncui then puts Tan on her back and, tog...

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14 YEARS OLD, 28 POUNDS: Mom Pleads Guilty To Daughter's Death From Malnutrition, Neglect

AP | LISA CORNWELL | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Mother Starved Daughter to Death, Makayla Norman, Angela Norman, Cerebral Palsy, Mug Shots, Ohio, Malnourishment Death, Malnourishment, Mother Starved Teen, Starved to Death, Crime News

CINCINNATI -- The mother of a 14-year-old girl who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds when she died last year pleaded guilty to involuntary mans...

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Turning Wheelchairs Into Hot-Rods

Lori Sokol | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Family Caregivers, Disabled, Women, Caregiving, Loreen Arbus, Social Responsibility, Loreen-Arbus, People-With-Disabilities, Philanthropy, Cerebral-Palsy, Philanthropists, Disabilities, Cerebral Palsy, United-Cerebral-Palsy, Disability, Caregiver Support, Home Caregiver, United Cerebral Palsy, Impact News

Loreen Arbus has made it her mission to honor the work of the caregiver, 'the unsung heroines," whose kindness comes in all manners of form to help transform lives, yet who are still so severely unappreciated.

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School Bans Girl With Cerebral Palsy From Using Walker

Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Kristi Roberts, Girl With Cerebral Palsy, Lakay Roberts, Video, Special Needs Student, School Bans Walker, Cerebral Palsy, Student With Cerebral Palsy, Student Denied Walker, Texas Schools, Student Safety, School Safety, Education News

A Texas mother is planning to file a lawsuit against New Caney Independent School District after her daughter's special education director said the 5-...

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Pledge To Ban The 'R-Word' For Good

Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Intellectual Disabilities, Special Olympics, Video, Stroke, Ellen Seidman, Activism, Love That Max, Cerebral Palsy, Brain Damage, Best Buddies, Max Seidman, R-Word, Impact News

Nine-year-old Max is bright, funny and motivated. He also has cerebral palsy, a condition his mom fears will lead people to insult him with insensitiv...

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Children With Special Needs: A Revolutionary Approach Gives New Hope

Anat Baniel | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Anat Baniel Method, Children, Brain Science, Special Needs Children, Special Needs, Neuroplasticity, Neuroscience, Brain, Cerebral Palsy, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Autism, Families-With-Children-With-Special-Needs, Feldenkrais, Children With Special Needs, Children's Health, Special Needs Education, ADD/ADHD, Parents News

Are you a parent to a child with special needs? Have you been trying to help your child do something he or she can't do, or corrected them over and over again to end up with little or no progress?

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Help This Man With Cerebral Palsy Continue To Feed The Hungry

Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Video, Meals on Wheels, Cerebral Palsy, Disabled Volunteers, Volunteers, Tampa, Florida, Meals on Wheels Volunteers, Norma Crocker, Scotty Crocker, Impact News

Scotty Crocker loves volunteering with Meals on Wheels and doesn't let his cerebral palsy stand in his way. But the uneven concrete and tree roots in ...

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Should A Child With Disabilities Always Get His Way?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Children With Disabilities, Video, Child Mind Institute, Cerebral Palsy, Love That Max, Eccentricities, Quirks, Parents News

Ellen Seidman's nine-year-old son Max likes to have things his way. He went through a Cars 2 phase, wherein he would watch that video -- never the ori...

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The Gift Of Good Health

Javier Sierra | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Fetuses, Learning Disabilities, Big Coal, Epa, Public Health, Obama Administration, Global Motherhood, Babies, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, Coal-Fired Plants, Coal Pollution, Decreased IQ, Hispanic Community, Cerebral Palsy, Mercury, Birth Defects, Neurotoxin, Latino Voices News

According to a LULAC study, almost 30 percent of Hispanics live dangerously close to a coal-fired plant.

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WATCH: 'Breaking Bad' Actor Gives Sweet Surprise To Woman With Disability

Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Rj Mitte, Walter White Jr., Breaking Bad, National Disability Institute, Disabilities, Cerebral Palsy, Disability Awareness Month, Video, Impact News

Moiri Rossi of Jacksonville, Fla., received her "American Dream" Wednesday. The National Disability Institute announced that 24-year-old Rossi, who...

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Superwoman in Feather Earrings

Mariela Dabbah | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Dominican Republic, Fashion, Entrepreneurship, Uruguay, Cerebral Palsy, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Latino Voices News

There are very few Latino entrepreneurs with disabilities who are visible. Erika jumped at the chance to talk publicly about the challenges she had overcome in order to fulfill her aspirations of being a designer.

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David and the Dolphins

Juliet Linley | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Dolphin Human Therapy, Dolphin Therapy, Mental Health, Cerebral Palsy Therapies, Dolphins Therapy, Autism Therapies, Healthy Living News

Dolphin Human Therapy integrates the skills of an array of therapists, family participation, dolphins, warm water and a peaceful location to create a therapeutic environment aimed at maximizing each child's potential.

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Family Gets $58 Million In Record-Breaking Malpractice Suit

Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Video, Cathy D'Attilo, Healthy Living, Cerebral Palsy, Malpractice Record, Connecticut Malpractice, Daniel D'Attilo, Pregnancy Malpractice, Healthy Living News

In what is being called the largest medical malpractice verdict in state history, two Connecticut parents have been awarded $58 million on behalf of t...

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Penguins Can't Fly... But They Can Soar

Freddie Gershon | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Coachella Valley Autism Society of America, Learning Disabilities, Arts Funding, New York City Schools, The Kennedy Center, Arts Education, Intellectual Disabilities, Visual and Hearing Impairments, David Brooks, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte NC, Autism Society of East Tennessee, Autism, The Penguin Project in Peoria IL, Down Syndrome, Neurological Disorders., Detour Company Theatre in Phoenix, Education Reform, Cerebral Palsy, Arts News

In my blog "Look Papi... I Did It", I identified P.94 and their experience with disabled children who defied prognostication by breaking through and f...

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Sierra Club Took My Hair and All I Got Was a Beyond Coal Button

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Epa, Governor Jerry Brown, Cerebral Palsy, Learning Disabilities, Mercury, Ladwp, Beyond Coal Campaign, Neurotoxin, Lisa Jackson, Mercury Poisoning, Sierra Club, The Cove, Clean Air Act, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Methylmercury, University of Georgia, Green News

I just had a lock of my hair chopped off to benefit science and the planet. I was joined by other moms, children and babies in more than 25 cities ac...

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Factory Survives Recession By Putting The 'Able' Back In Disabled

Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Disabled Workers, Disabled, Habitat Inc., Mentally Disabled, Positive Distractions, David Morris, Physically Disabled, Downs Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Video, Impact News

Habitat International Inc. has won plenty of awards, not for what it makes but for what it promotes -- employment for the disabled and disadvantaged. ...

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Jesse, A Mother's Story: Rage and Ferocious Love

Randy Susan Meyers | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Knowing Jesse, Memoir, Disabled Children, Cerebral Palsy, Books, Chris Cooper, Jesse, A Mother's StoryMarianne Leone, Books News

The stark beauty of this memoir hit me the moment I began. Marianne Leone's narrative, written with an unrelenting immediacy, yanked me into her world.

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Man With Cerebral Palsy Climbs El Capitan

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climbing Record, Stephen Wampler, El Capitan Summit, Yosemite National Park, El Capitan, Cerebral Palsy, Video, Impact News

Stephen Wampler was born with cerebral palsy and is usually wheelchair-bound. But that didn't stop him from conquering the summit of El Capitan in Y...

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Disabled Students Bring Inspiration As 'Honorary Cheerleaders'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muscular Dystrophy, Wheelchair Cheerleaders, Honorary Cheerleaders, Wilson Central High School, Cerebral Palsy, Disabled Students, Disabled Cheerleaders, Disabled Children, Video, Impact News

For two teenage students, one with muscular dystrophy and the other with cerebral palsy, cheering their high school teams to victory is an exciting ac...

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Haylee Cain, 21-Year-Old With Cerebral Palsy Living In Nursing Home, Taken In By Family

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NBC Nightly News Making a Difference, Disabled, Head Start Program, State Funding for Disabled, Making a Difference, Cerebral Palsy, Haylee Cain, Disabled Teens, Video, Impact News

At 21 years of age, Haylee Cain found herself living in a nursing home among people more than twice her age. The young woman with cerebral palsy was p...

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