Killilea spent years in crusading for founding, and fund-raising, for the Cerebral Palsy Association which would bring help and hope for others. And for the 22,000 children in New York State alone- of which only one in a hundred received care, Mrs. Killilea worked with Karen at home, and each advance, from sitting alone to walking on crutches to finally- writing, brings its triumph in the face of recoil so often faced in public situations, the years of painful struggle and painful appliances, as well as the loneliness of a childhood cut off from her contemporaries through the lack of schooling- for children such as these- as well as treatment. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books. Karen: A True Story Told by Her Mother - Marie Killilea - Google Books Winner of the Christopher Award: This bestseller tells the inspirational true story of a girl with cerebral palsy and. Unable to afford the services of trained therapists- even were there any available in her community, Mr. Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Killilea continued in her search for an alternative, found it finally in a doctor with some knowledge of spastic paralysis and its treatment. From later opinions (''take your child to an institution- and leave her there'') which were founded in professional ignorance of cerebral palsy and which affirmed that Karen's limitations were not only physical- but also mental, Mrs. A warm and winning and spirited account of a young mother's attempt to overcome the liabilities of cerebral palsy, and to refute the first medical verdict that her little girl would have ''an existence- but no life''.

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