From the New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/.../18swimmer.html
A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight
By ALAN SCHWARZ
Published: June 18, 2008
SAN DIEGO — As Kendall Bailey swims, his praying-mantis limbs flapping him forward, something about the water disguises his many maladies: cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism and more. Only in a swimming pool do they dissolve and allow his troubled body and mind to be all but normal. He is happy, safe and possibly the fastest disabled breaststroker in the world....
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Apparently you don't need an education, either.
His problems are neurological, not psychiatric. And as the parent of a disabled child myself, I daresay his mother has left no stone unturned when it comes to his medical care.
Gull
On the subject of disabled children -especially those purportedly afflicted with “autism”, here’s an article that tends to disprove the "crisis" (that we're always hearing about in the media) between the MMR vaccine and autism:
www.cdc.gov/.../mmr_autism_factsheet.htmwww.vaccinesafety.edu/cc-mmr.htmwww.medpagetoday.com/tbindex.cfm
The vaccine/autism causation seems to be another label being promoted by psychiatry rather than the result of a scientifically legitimate analysis of the childhood patients.
Dolphin 2
Apparently you don't need an education, either.
His problems are neurological, not psychiatric. And as the parent of a disabled child myself, I daresay his mother has left no stone unturned when it comes to his medical care.
Gull
On the subject of disabled children -especially those purportedly afflicted with “autism”, here’s an article that tends to disprove the "crisis" (that we're always hearing about in the media) between the MMR vaccine and autism:
www.cdc.gov/.../mmr_autism_factsheet.htmwww.vaccinesafety.edu/cc-mmr.htmwww.medpagetoday.com/tbindex.cfm
The vaccine/autism causation seems to be another label being promoted by psychiatry rather than the result of a scientifically legitimate analysis of the childhood patients.
Dolphin 2
