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“Serena’s Song”
I read this in the online edition of The Raleigh News & Observer and wanted to share it here. “Serena’s Song” is the world’s first wheelchair-accessible hot-air balloon and was designed by a father for his daughter, who has cerebral palsy. The hot-air balloon offers free rides to people with […]
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Two Teenagers with CP in UK Accept Out of Court Settlement from Salon Owner
Disabled teenagers allegedly told they were ’scaring off other customers’ in salon
By Lucy Cockcroft
Last Updated: 9:46AM BST 09/07/2008
Three disabled teenagers who were allegedly “shooed” out of a beauty salon by staff who said they were “scaring off other customers” have accepted £4,500 in an out of court settlement.
Amy Fox, 19, Aruna Gill, 17, and Jemimah […]
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Kendall’s Bailey’s Story
Yesterday, after reading this article in The New York Times, I was left wondering why in the world the U.S. Paralympics Committee formally filed a protest expressly requesting one of its own athletes be designated ineligible for the Beijing Games? Thank God for his mother!
A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight
by ALAN SCHWARZ
Published: June 18, […]
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Health: Oxygen therapy helps kids with cerebral palsy
May 30, 2008 - 11:12PM
By MIKE GOSSIE
FREEDOM NEWS SERVICE
Most kids have to learn to crawl before they can walk, but for 6-year-old Catherine Butler of Chandler, Ariz., who has cerebral palsy, crawling wasn’t that simple.
But it just got a bit easier.
“Before she started this treatment, she didn’t have the left-right rotation when she crawled like […]
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What Do You Think Of This?
This article was reported by ABC News in Australia last week. If it’s in the least bit true, then why hasn’t ABC News in the United States reported this story?
New heart monitoring system to ‘prevent cerebral palsy’
Posted Mon May 12, 2008 | 7:41am AEST
Brisbane’s Mater Mothers’ Hospital says its new system to monitor the […]
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Never Again
“In Germany, they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came […]
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The PA Primary
Who’s going to win and by how much?
I say Clinton by over 10 points!
GO HILLARY!
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Women: is it okay to use your body to get what you want?
I was thinking about this while watching the Big Give. This woman Brandi is a contestant on the show and she’s a former beauty queen, but not at all the diva I expected. She knows, I think, that her body makes men do things or want to do things for and to her, not to […]
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Your Favorite Words!
Here are a few of mine:
Tintinnabulation
Onomatopoeia
Erstwhile
Lasagne
Irk
Flautas
Kangaroo
Persnickety
Margarita
Daft
What are some of your favorite words?
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Funny or Offensive?
I say FUNNY!
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