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Recent Examples of cerebral palsy
This coming-of-age film, based on a 2010 novel by Sharon M. Draper, stars Phoebe-Ray Taylor as a sixth-grader with cerebral palsy facing the challenges of being in a mainstream class for the first time.
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Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
Arizona Officers Suspended After Beating Deaf Black Man With Cerebral Palsy
Three Phoenix police officers who beat and tased Tyron McAlpin, a Black man who is deaf and has cerebral palsy, have been suspended without pay for 24 hours, according to interim police chief Michael Sullivan.
—Essence, 28 Mar. 2025
Woodland is the seventh recipient and joins fellow professional players Erik Compton, Gene Sauers, Morgan Hoffmann, Chris Kirk and the late Jarrod Lyle, as well as activist D.J. Gregory, who advocates for people with cerebral palsy.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
This coming-of-age drama is the story of Melody Brooks, a quick-witted, non-verbal sixth grader with cerebral palsy who uses a wheelchair.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 1 May 2025
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Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
Arizona Officers Suspended After Beating Deaf Black Man With Cerebral Palsy
Three Phoenix police officers who beat and tased Tyron McAlpin, a Black man who is deaf and has cerebral palsy, have been suspended without pay for 24 hours, according to interim police chief Michael Sullivan.
—Essence, 28 Mar. 2025
Woodland is the seventh recipient and joins fellow professional players Erik Compton, Gene Sauers, Morgan Hoffmann, Chris Kirk and the late Jarrod Lyle, as well as activist D.J. Gregory, who advocates for people with cerebral palsy.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
This coming-of-age drama is the story of Melody Brooks, a quick-witted, non-verbal sixth grader with cerebral palsy who uses a wheelchair.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cerebral palsy
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Read more: Prevention & Treatment Diet and Nutrition 14 Sources Pietrangelo is a health writer who has authored two books: one focused on multiple sclerosis and the other on triple-negative breast cancer.—
Ann Pietrangelo,
Verywell Health,
28 May 2025
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Elected in 2018, she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a year earlier.—
Curtis Bunn,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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Over the next 25 years, there would be 51.2 million cases of measles, 9.9 million cases of rubella and 4.3 million cases of poliomyelitis.—
Corinne Purtill,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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There is no cure for paralytic poliomyelitis.—
Dr. Céline Gounder,
CBS News,
15 Sep. 2022
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The company is building a brain-computer interface, or BCI, which is able to translate brain signals into commands that can control technology outside the body and aims to help patients with severe paralysis.—
Michele Luhn,
CNBC,
3 June 2025
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Their bites attack the nervous system, possibly leading to seizures, the inability to walk or the inability to breathe due to respiratory paralysis or extreme swelling in the throat, Willey warned.—
Caleb Lunetta,
Mercury News,
27 May 2025
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Bell’s palsy — which was then written into the show.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
28 May 2025
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Thomas died April 18 at Salisbury Hospice in Wilshire England, and had been battling progressive supranuclear palsy, daughter Phoebe Court-Thomas told The Hollywood Reporter.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Cerebral palsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cerebral%20palsy. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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