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Comedian Josh Blue has recorded a public service announcement for the American Academy of Neurology Foundation to help support the organization in its fight to cure brain disease. The video is hoped to raise awareness about cerebral palsy and the need for research. Blue is known best for being the season four winner of NBC’s television show Last Comic Standing. He has demonstrated amazing improvisational skills in his stand-up routines, and does much to break down stereotypes of people with disabilities. “Having cerebral palsy, I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do, but my friends always told me I was really funny and I discovered stand-up comedy,” Blue says. “So having a physical disability, I realized at a pretty young age that if there was anything I didn’t accomplish in my life, it wasn’t because I had cerebral palsy; it was because I was just being lazy.” At…
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An interesting idea has come to fruition in Australia for sufferers of cerebral palsy in the form of online shopping. This Christmas shoppers can donate to a fund for cerebral palsy simply by making their purchases online. Cerebral Palsy Alliance has made arrangements with more than 200 online retailers, including some we might use here in the states, like Apple, Dell, and Clinique. When people make their purchases from these retailers through the Alliance’s e-store, the retailer will make a donation to Cerebral Palsy Alliance. Not only do the customers get to take some of the stress out of shopping by avoiding lines and general store chaos, they also get to feel good about making their purchases because of the donations to such an important effort. Christmas gifts are only a portion of what you can purchase using the service. You can buy baby products and clothes, rent cars, book…
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Cerebral palsy is caused by injuries or abnormalities in the brain and can range from extremely debilitating to only mildly so. Luckily with enough determination some sufferers will experience all the attributes of a normal life. A Somerset High School sophomore, in Richmond, Wisconsin, is demonstrating just how capable she is despite her disability. Carrie Kulibert experienced a stroke only hours after she was born. It left her in a neo-natal intensive care unit for the first six days of her life, and after four months, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Kulibert has limited strength and muscle control on the right side of her body, leaving her unable to perform tasks many of us take for granted, like cutting up her food or trimming her fingernails. Despite this, Kulibert has pushed forward in ways many students never do. She types one handed, plays soccer, participates in forensics and mock…
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