Can anyone give me an example of someone with Cerebral Palsy who is doing great !
Question: Thomas Ritter, Attorney and Brother of Actor John Ritter, helped start United Cerebral Palsy Associations Inc., Anne McDonald is an Australian Writer and Social Critic; Ruth Senkenwitz Mercer, Writer/Lecturer; Gaby Brimmer, overcame the challenges of severe Cerebral Palsy, by writing novels using her left foot; John Callahan is a quadriplegic cartoonist; Arthur Campbell Jr. was a stout advocate of his rights as a CP individual; Dan Keplinger paints using his head pointer, while Christopher Nolen, a novelist, uses his head pointer to type out his novelist.
Answers: Thomas Ritter, Attorney and Brother of Actor John Ritter, helped start United Cerebral Palsy Associations Inc., Anne McDonald is an Australian Writer and Social Critic; Ruth Senkenwitz Mercer, Writer/Lecturer; Gaby Brimmer, overcame the challenges of severe Cerebral Palsy, by writing novels using her left foot; John Callahan is a quadriplegic cartoonist; Arthur Campbell Jr. was a stout advocate of his rights as a CP individual; Dan Keplinger paints using his head pointer, while Christopher Nolen, a novelist, uses his head pointer to type out his novelist.
Christy Brown - he was born with cerebal palsy. There's this film about him using his left foot to draw and write. I heard its very moving but i havent watched it yet. He's also a poet and a writer, he wrote an autobiography My Left Foot which became an international bestseller. He died at the age of 49.
Had a patient once who thought she had had polio as a child. Turned out it was a birth injury. She was a PhD in Nuclear Physics , working in a high-powered Gov. Lab.