Cerebral palsy

Matt has cerebral palsy but that does not stop him from finishing a race at his elementary school. Here is the official YouTube description: “Matt has Spastic Cerebral Palsy, but opted to run in Field Day at Colonial Hills Elementary School ...  

Considering the cards she's been dealt, 19-year-old Tiffany Billings shouldn't smile so much. She shouldn't be able to walk without assistance. She shouldn't have a 3.5 GPA. But the Russian-born Neapolitan, twice adopted in the U.S. and ...  

Kierra Cain is a healthy, active Sterling Heights fifth grader because Detroit doctors at her traumatic birth 10 years ago cooled her with a chilled blanket to keep her alive. “She wasn’t expected to live through the night,” said her ...  

An overnight theft left dozens of people with Cerebral Palsy without transportation Wednesday morning. Cerebral Palsy Center Executive Director Bob Sexton says early morning staff at their day facility arrived to find wheels and other parts stolen off four ...  

Kim Taylor calls her son Matthew the real-life Forrest Gump. "He will just run and run and run. We have to make him stop," she said. It's something she thought she'd never see the teen do. "He was 15 months when he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy we were ...  

The scent of Polish sausage, swirls of pink cotton candy and the squeals of delight from young children, mean one thing: The carnival is back in town. United Cerebral Palsy of West Alabama's spring carnival will run Thursday, Friday and Saturday ...  

A theft at the Cerebral Palsy Center overnight has seriously affected the organization's ability to help clients. According to Tracey Bise, Director of Development for the Cerebral Palsy Center, someone stole seven tires from the vans that are used to pick ...  

At an early age, he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. He was born in Pender County but relocated when he was about 5 to Brunswick County. He was able to take advantage of opportunities not available in Pender. Because of the cerebral palsy, he ...  

One of the main beneficiaries of the fourth annual Oshkosh Irish Fest, June 1-3, is the merged organization of Cerebral Palsy of Mideast Wisconsin and Arc of Winnebago County. More than 1,100 clients and families in nine counties are served by ...  

FARMERS BRANCH - The thing about living on the edge - for people like Pattie Winton - is there’s no margin for things to go wrong. And they just went really wrong. "Oh my God, it's gone. It's really gone,” Winton said after her 1990 Chevy ...  

A toddler who suffers from cerebral palsy received a cheque from the Vale of Alford Masonic Lodge, to help pay for her treatment. Two-year-old Allissa Archibald has attended the Craighalbert Centre in Cumbernauld for children with cerebral palsy and ...  

Families of affected children said this morning the botox treatment, which is only available publicly through Princess Margaret Hospital ... An emotional Penelope Cormack-Gibbons said her daughter, Isabella, 3, had been on the waiting list for 14 months.  

Plourde, and Naomi Nakahara, Chelsea's adopted sister, say she needs a lot of personal care and other items CLBC coverage could provide. More than anything, she needs to trade up her 1990 Ford Club Wagon passenger van, so she can be safely transported to ...  

A team of students at Rice University has developed a digital device that may help children with cerebral palsy develop movement in their wrists using simple gameplay techniques. The “Dino-Might” was developed by Helping Hands, a group of seniors at ...  

ATLANTA -- Sam Porterfield is a reunion expert. In 22 years at Northside Hospital, he has cared for thousands of sick and premature babies. He knows how to fix them and get them back to their parents. One night, 18 years ago, Sam was summoned to an ...