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  2. Karen Killilea - Wikipedia

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    Karen Ann Killilea (August 18, 1940 – October 30, 2020) was the subject of two bestselling books by her mother Marie Killilea, Karen and With Love from Karen.These books were groundbreaking by asserting that children with cerebral palsy could lead productive lives.

  3. List of fictional characters with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    (book series) Jon Blake: Jams has Cerebral Palsy, and a monkey. [8] 1929 Benjy Compson The Sound and the Fury: William Faulkner: Benjy is most likely autistic with synesthesia, as his whole life experience based on smells, shapes, and sounds [9] 1976 Harry Hardacre The Hardacres (book series) C. L. Skelton Harry has Little's Disease [citation ...

  4. Cerebral palsy - Wikipedia

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    Children with cerebral palsy have significantly higher rates of sleep disturbance than typically developing children. [58] Babies with cerebral palsy who have stiffness issues might cry more and be harder to put to sleep than non-disabled babies, or "floppy" babies might be lethargic. [59] Chronic pain is under-recognized in children with ...

  5. Petey (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Petey (1998) is a children's novel by Ben Mikaelsen, published in 1998 and set in the 1920s and 1990s. [1] Based on the real-life story of cerebral palsy patient Clyde Cothern, Petey illustrates for children an understanding of people with disabilities, and helps them to discover what these people go through. Re-occurring themes include growth ...

  6. Reading for special needs - Wikipedia

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    Reading for special needs has become an area of interest as the understanding of reading has improved. Teaching children with special needs how to read was not historically pursued under the assumption of the reading readiness model [1] that a reader must learn to read in a hierarchical manner such that one skill must be mastered before learning the next skill (e.g. a child might be expected ...

  7. Your protein needs change as you get older. Here’s how much ...

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    People seem obsessed with protein nowadays, but certain age groups need to focus on it more than others. Your protein needs change as you get older. Here’s how much you should be eating at every age

  8. Management of cerebral palsy - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, deformities in cerebral palsy children are characteristically multilevel i.e. occurring at simultaneously at more than one joint. This adds to the complexity of orthopedic management of cerebral palsy children. Thus, multilevel orthopedic surgery is the mainstay of orthopedic management.

  9. Stuck in Neutral - Wikipedia

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    The main character is Shawn McDaniel, a fourteen-year-old who has cerebral palsy. The story, told from Shawn's perspective, also focuses on how his family copes with the condition. Shawn's mother, brother, sister, and father are all talked about in the book. Stuck in Neutral received recognition as an Honor Book for the Michael L. Printz Award ...