cerebral palsy

Red O?Ryan spends most of his days like many high school juniors?dealing with the demands of class, thinking about girls, and trying to measure up to his older brother. Cerebral palsy is just part of his life, and he doesn?t think the experimental treatments he?s receiving for the disability are doing anything for him. When a confrontation with a football player ends with the bully on the ground, Red knows he never touched him. But he can?t help wondering how his tormentor fell.

Born with cerebral palsy, Amy can't walk without a walker, talk without a voice box, or even fully control her facial expressions. Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorder, Matthew is consumed with repeated thoughts, neurotic rituals, and crippling fear. Both in desperate need of someone to help them reach out to the world, Amy and Matthew are more alike than either ever realized. When Amy decides to hire student aides to help her in her senior year at Coral Hills High School, these two teens are thrust into each other's lives. As they begin to spend time with each other, what started as a blossoming friendship eventually grows into something neither expected.

"Describes what it is like to live with cerebral palsy, what its symptoms are, and how it is treated"--Provided by publisher.

"Idiot. Freak. Retard." Imagine being called these words every day of your life. Imagine having no friends because think that you're stupid. Imagine having people bully you because you are "different." Imagine people staring, pointing, whispering, behind your back; thinking you can't understand them. Well, guess what? I do understand. I have had to deal with all of this since I was little, and it's about time other people knew. My name is Lucy, and I'm 16 years old. I have cerebral palsy, and this is my story. Told from the perspective of diary entries, this story tells of the difficulties and struggles a disabled teen has during her quest to be "normal." However, maybe being normal isn't the best thing after all.

The personal narrative of Ruben Gallego, the grandson of the secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party, who spent much of his life in orphanages, hospitals, and old-age homes because he was afflicted with cerebral palsy.

Ronald has cerebral palsy and a knack for solving msyteries. After his brother Sam receives a threatening letter and phone call, the brothers work with their neighbor Susana to discover the truth behind a stamp theft that happened four year ago, in Ronald's room.

When 16-year-old Lester, himself a victim of cerebral palsy, takes his retarded friend from the hospital for the weekend, tragedy ensues, forcing Lester to examine the real meaning of their relationship.

Despite his excitement over walking with a new walker, three-year-old Patrick finds it isn't easy and becomes discouraged until his new friend, six-year-old Emma Lou who has spina bifida, helps him discover something important about himself.

Having always prided herself on blending in with "normal" people despite her cerebral palsy, seventeen-year-old Jean begins to question her role in the world while attending a summer camp for children with disabilities.