Living with Disabilities

  First, welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy Website. It's run by none other than Katrina Smith, who's a person with a learning disability. Her mission behind Living With Disabilities is to bring awareness to all people with disabilities. Today, Living With Disabilities wants to talk about what's Cerebral Palsy.  Cerebral Palsy is a congenital disorder of movement, muscle tone, or posture. Some people who have CP can walk, and others may use a wheelchair, walker, forearm crutches. Cerebral palsy is due to abnormal brain development, often before or after birth. Symptoms   Includes amplified reflexes, floppy or rigid limbs, and involuntary motions. That appears in early childhood. A medical mistake by the doctor is what causes Cerebral Palsy after birth) What a person may experiences   Muscular: difficulty walking, difficulty with body movements, muscle rigidity, permanent shortening of muscles, the problem with coordination, Stiff muscles, overactive ref...

  First, welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy Website. It's run by none other than Katrina Smith, who's a person with a learning disability. Her mission behind Living With Disabilities is to bring awareness to all people with disabilities. Today, Living With Disabilities wants to talk about disability and health. When it comes to dealing with a disability, some people deal with other issues that stem from their disability.   Living With Disabilities will be sharing Katrina's story.   At nine months old, Katrina Smith developed a disability because of an automobile accident. She had surgery to get a shunt placed because of a brain injury. and has a learning disability because of the brain-damaged accident that caused it. She was in a coma for six months and a semi-coma for three months. Not only does Katrina have a learning disability, But, she has hypothyroidism and osteoporosis because of the medication she takes for her thyroid issues, not to ...

  First, welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy Website. It's run by none other than Katrina Smith, who's a person with a learning disability. Her mission behind Living With Disabilities is to bring awareness to all people with disabilities. Today Living With Disabilities wants to talk about Communication with a person with a disability. Communication is a huge part of the disabled community. There are different forms of communication in the disabled community: verbal and non-verbal communication. And it's about time to understand non-verbal communication.  First, a person who has a non-verbal disability can be overlooked, misunderstood, and misdiagnosed learning disability.  What types of disabilities can non-verbal people have ? ADD, Autism, Cerebral palsy, ADHD, and Asperger's. Cause When it comes to non-verbal learning disorders, they come from the right cerebral hemisphere of the brain. And over time, a child may develop symptoms. including rote memories...