Sentences with phrase «palsy victim»

This greatly helps the Cerebral Palsy victim as well as the family.

Everyone thinks that cerebral palsy victim Shawn McDaniel is a vegetable.

His powerful performance might very well be remembered at Oscar time, given the Academy's recent history of rewarding thespians playing impaired characters, including Eddie Redmayne (2014) for wheelchair - bound Stephen Hawking (ALS); Colin Firth (2010) for stuttering King George VI; Geoffrey Rush (1996) for mentally - ill David Helfgott; Tom Hanks (1994) for dimwitted Forest Gump; Tom Hanks (1993) for AIDS patient Andrew Beckett; Daniel Day - Lewis (1989) for cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown; and Dustin Hoffman (1988) for mathematics savant Rain Man.

Various actors and actresses have won Academy Award acting Oscars for their tour - de-force biopic performances, such as James Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), George C. Scott as the cantakerous WWII General Patton in the widely - acclaimed Patton (1970), Katharine Hepburn as King Henry II's Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968), Sissy Spacek as legendary country singer Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Daniel Day - Lewis as Irish cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), and Ben Kingsley as the charismatic, pacifist, 20th century Indian spiritual leader Mahatma in Sir Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982).

(Unrated) The late Steven C. Stewart wrote and starred in this semi-autobiographical drama about a Cerebral Palsy victim's struggle to reconcile his vivid sexual fantasies with his physical limitations caused by the disease.

Not exact matches

He none - the-less tries to contact the family of the victim only to be rebuffed, but not before he sees Gong - ju - a young woman with cerebral palsy.

She says that the thing she loved most about writing Eye Contact was creating a central character who was as much of a mystery as the perpetrator of the crime; she also comments that 20 % of Americans currently identify themselves as disabled, «an enormous group of people that has been underrepresented in books, movies and TV»; so her next book will be a mystery centered around a woman with cerebral palsy who is the unlikely center of a love triangle and the victim of a crime committed in its wake.

If your child was a victim of medical malpractice and will live with cerebral palsy for the rest of his or her life, you deserve representation from an experienced, reputable attorney.

If you or your loved one is the victim of Erb's palsy or damage to the brachial plexus, do not wait until you are no longer legally allowed to pursue compensation.

I am attorney Jason Waechter, and I have put together a network of lawyers, doctors, nurses, physical therapists, financial planners and other top experts across the United States to help victims of medical malpractice, with diagnoses including Cerebral Palsy, Erbs Palsy and Shoulder Dystocia.

Assisted individuals with special needs, paralysis, visually impaired, non-verbal individuals, severe special needs (Autism, Cereberal Palsy, Stroke Victims, Bipoloar Disorder, ADHD, Alzheimer's, Dementia, HIV / AIDS)