06/10/2024
🌍💚 Today, we celebrate World Cerebral Palsy Day — a day to raise awareness, show support, and amplify the voices of those living with cerebral palsy. Each individual’s story is a powerful reminder of resilience, strength, and the beauty of diversity. Together, we stand for inclusion, better accessibility, and equal opportunities for all. Let’s keep moving forward, one step at a time. 💪✨
About World Cerebral Palsy Day
World Cerebral Palsy Day is a global movement that started in 2012. Last year, it reached over 10 million people. It aims to bring together people living with cerebral palsy, their families, supporters and organisations from over 100 countries. All with the aim to ensure a future in which children and adults with cerebral palsy have the same rights, access and opportunities as anyone else in our society.
About Cerebral Palsy
There are more than 17 million people across the world living with cerebral palsy. Another 350 million people are closely connected to a child or adult with cerebral palsy.
Cerebral palsy is a physical disability that affects movement and posture. Many people with cerebral palsy have other related vision, hearing, communication and mobility needs. Its impact can range from a weakness in one hand, to almost a complete lack of voluntary movement.
It is a complex disability:
1 in 4 children with cerebral palsy cannot talk
1 in 4 cannot walk
1 in 2 have an intellectual disability
1 in 4 have epilepsy
