Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:12:00 AM
May is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. David Olinger, Manager of Marketing and Communications, delivered a proclamation at Crystal Park School on Thursday on behalf of Mayor Dwight Logan.
He is shown with Kate Blimke and her daughter, Jenna, a student at the school, which opened in 1984 as the first fully integrated school in North America. Cerebral Palsy is a neuromotor disability that affects two to four people in every 1,000. In Alberta, there are approximately 9,000 people affected by Cerebral Palsy, a term used to describe a group of conditions affecting body movement and muscle co-ordination. It is not a disease. There is more than one diagnosis of cerebral palsy for every 500 children born each year in Alberta, and the number of cases per year has increased 25 per cent over the past decade.
