Disabilities
Column - Daniel VanceRecovering from a Stroke
For the first time in my eight-year history of writing this column, I interviewed face-to-face a person who couldn't speak. Tim Hanson of Fargo, North Dakota, communicated using hand motions, facial expressions, nods, and a mini-computer | Post Polio Syndrome
A National Institutes of Health website defines post-polio syndrome (PPS) as a condition affecting "polio survivors years after recovery from an initial acute attack of the poliomyelitis virus | August Football Dangers
August heat and modern-day football is one of several combinations that concern 77-year-old George Beres of Eugene, Oregon. He reads this column in his hometown newspaper | Talented Joe Griffin (part 2)
Last column, I featured 14-year-old Floridian Joe Griffin, who acquired a spinal cord injury in 1998 at age 2 after accidentally falling off a bed. Today, he only has feeling from his shoulders up | Spina Bifida - Abigail Vance
My 12-year-old daughter, who was born with a permanent disability, is one reason I write this column. For this week only, I've decided to let her take over my job of writing. So here is what she has to say in my place. |
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