cerebral palsy news archive

Riverton High beats adversity (The Salt Lake Tribune)RIVERTON - Students at Riverton High School had a rough start this year: Within a month, two students had committed suicide and a cheerleader died after her body rejected a transplanted kidney. Raising $60,000 for the Odyssey House drug-treatment program helped students cope with their emotional pain, as did naming Megan Rees, a senior with cerebral palsy, as homecoming queen.

educationFocus briefs (The Times of Northwest Indiana)The Lake County Extension Homemakers Association is accepting applications for the annual Lucile Smith Memorial Scholarship. To be eligible, you must be a Lake County resident, 21 years of age or older.

Zambarano Patients Seeking Cable TV (RedNova)By ARTHUR KIMBALL-STANLEY Journal Staff Writer "It's such a little thing," says a hospital administrator. "But, it would have a tremendous effect on the [patients]." The annual cost, however, is $13,500.

Police: Jailed Sex Abuser Tried To Hire Hit Man (WPBF TheWPBFChannel.com via Yahoo! News) A Fort Pierce, Fla., man was behind bars on charges of sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, but police said a jail cell did not stop him from seeking revenge.

Man with Cerebral Palsy Rents Out Advertising Space on Wheelchair to Sponsor New Chair (PR Web)Kevin Berg, born with severe Cerebral Palsy, seeks sponsors for a new wheelchair not covered by Medicare or private insurance so he may continue, and expand, his speaking ministry. He has set up a Web site at www.10MPHads.com. [PRWEB Jan 27, 2006]

ISMS student creates artwork with her toes (The Post & Mail)Indian Springs Middle School student Tiffany Shoda, 12, can't use a pencil with her hands, but she hasn't let that stop her from creating art. Tiffany, who has cerebral palsy, draws with her feet.

Cano receives Thurman Munson Award (MLB.com)Cano honored at Thurman Munson Awards

'Eagle Eyes' enable users to soar (Provo Daily Herald) Britt Allen sat in front of a computer, blue electrodes attached to his face and multicolored wires running from the electrodes to a small box next the machine. His eyes focused on the screen as he used his left thumb to type out a message to Maureen Gates..

Device brings high-tech to disabled students (The Salt Lake Tribune)SPRINGVILLE - Britt Allen is an ace when it comes to zapping aliens - with his eyes. He may not have laser-beam sight like Superman, but just one glance sends the intruders to oblivion. On Monday, the 24-year-old - whose cerebral palsy has him in a wheelchair and inhibits his speech - shot down video-game aliens with perfection as he demonstrated a new eye-based technology to faculty at