in my eyes no one has a disability.
Christine Miserandino’s personal story and analogy of what it is like to live with sickness or disability.
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Me. After talking to someone about my life with invisible disabilities. By the way, the phrase “my disability is invisible- I’m not.” is the phrase from the National Learning Disabilities Initiative that I absolutely love. (via getin2myhead21)
im kinda excited about maybe getting this. its not any old wheelchair you know? a cross between a powerchair and manual chair. who thinks of that? anyway last year i would never go for getting this, but i guess i have grown and im more accepting of my disability. yes there are days where i hat cp but then there are days where i love cp. if i do get this i would take it to college with me.
Be one in a million, not one of a million
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woo go wheel chair guy!
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“My name is Kiara Esteves and I am an 18 year old high school student with Osteogenesis Imperfecta type III. I currently rely on public transportation, a non-accessible vehicle and my power chair as my only means of transportation. Traveling throughout New York as an individual with a disability is an arduous task.”
my friend is trying to win a contest, please help her out
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Little Girl with Cerebral Palsy Banned from Using her Walker at School
This beautiful little girl has every right to attend school with the accommodations she needs, in the least restrictive way possible. By insisting that she use a wheelchair when she is capable of using a walker, the school is violating the Americans with Disabilities act. I can’t help feeling like race and gender are factors in the oppression happening here. Just listen to the way this man speaks to the mother advocating for her child. The injustice makes my blood boil.
COBB COUNTY, Ga. (WXIA) — A photo posted on the 11Alive Facebook page has prompted an outpouring of comments.
It shows choir members from several six grade schools performing Tuesday night at South Cobb High School, while wheelchair bound Alex Pollard, also a chorus member, was kept way off to the side.
Alex’s mother, Arla Jan Wilson, said she was just sure someone would roll him up to the group before the music started, but everyone seemed to completely ignore him.
“To see the look on his face, it broke my heart. It was totally unacceptable. That should never happen to my child, or any other disabled student out there,” said Wilson.
Wilson said her 12-year-old son, who is in a wheelchair because of Cerebral Palsy, was so excited to join the chorus after seeing the hit show “Glee”.
The choir director, Lars Grevstad, is actually Alex’s chorus teacher at Cooper Middle School.
Wilson said she chose to send Alex to that school because it has accommodations and training for special needs students.
No one from the Cobb County School District would go on camera, but released a statement saying:
It was a regrettable oversight that the student with special needs was not positioned with the rest of his schoolmates during the choral performance. The student has been a member of the chorus for the entire school year and there have been no prior issues. The choral director has cited several reasons why this occurred but accepts responsibility. The matter will be investigated and, if necessary, appropriate personnel action will be taken. That action could include a letter of reprimand and/or sensitivity training.
New treatment for cerebral palsy ? :O link leads you to webpage, the full text article is available there.
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a chronic childhood disorder with no effective cure. Neuroinflammation, caused by activated microglia and astrocytes, plays a key role in the pathogenesis of CP and disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Targeting neuroinflammation can be a potent therapeutic strategy. However, delivering drugs across the blood-brain barrier to the target cells for treating diffuse brain injury is a major challenge. We show that systemically administered polyamidoamine dendrimers localize in activated microglia and astrocytes in the brain of newborn rabbits with CP, but not healthy controls. We further demonstrate that dendrimer-based N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) therapy for brain injury suppresses neuroinflammation and leads to a marked improvement in motor function in the CP kits. The well-known and safe clinical profile for NAC, when combined with dendrimer-based targeting, provides opportunities for clinical translation in the treatment of neuroinflammatory disorders in humans. The effectiveness of the dendrimer-NAC treatment, administered in the postnatal period for a prenatal insult, suggests a window of opportunity for treatment of CP in humans after birth.
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