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Lily Gordon, a six-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, is taking her first steps after travelling from her home in England to go through surgery in the U.S. Her parents, Joanne and David, were watching television a year ago when they saw the story of a boy with cerebral palsy who had travelled to the U.S. for pioneering Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy surgery. That the little boy was able to walk again was enough to motivate the family to try for the same surgery. Through months of hard work and fundraising the family managed to gather 70,000 pounds to pay for their trip to The Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. “It was just by the off-chance we had seen the programme, and if we had not heard about it we may never have gone along that road,” said Joanne. With her return home, Lily is going through rigorous physiotherapy three times…
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A Long Beach, California cerebral palsy sufferer had his Christmas wish filled by the Long Beach Junior Concert Band with the gift of a drum. 22-year-old Nelson Miles might suffer from cerebral palsy and high-level autism, but “when he air drums, his disability goes away,” said his mother, Tuesday Miles. When Nelson turned 16, the band showed up at his birthday party. “They’ve been in his life ever since,” said Tuesday. “He knows every move, every song.” Tuesday told reporters that the band has taken him in, and said that Nelson memorizes every single step in a drum routine and meticulously repeats it. Nelson owns 100 drum sticks, and plays in the air all the time, according to his mother. She knew what he needed for Christmas. When Tuesday posted on Facebook that she wanted a used drum to buy for her son, the band leaped at the opportunity to…
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Two children from Katy, Texas, will now be able to communicate with family and friends, thanks to a special Christmas gift from the Katy Police Officers Association. The organization presented Logan Cook, 3, and Kameron Martinez, 14, each with an iPad 2 with Proloque2Go, software that provides communication solutions for people who have difficulty speaking. The funding for the gifts came from officers of the Katy Police Department, members of the Katy Fire Department and other community contributors. With cerebral palsy, dystonia, nystagmus, spasticity, epilepsy and exotropia, as well as a benign brain tumor, Logan Cook has a lot to overcome. “He has full intellect and comprehension, but because of his brain damage form the CP, he can’t talk,” said his mother. At speech therapy class, Logan is able to communicate using an iPad, but when he gets home, things can be frustrating. With an iPad of his own, that…
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