2022 Millions Of Reasons Campaign
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Every World Cerebral Palsy Day, we ask people around the world to come together to celebrate and support those living with cerebral palsy, embrace diversity and to help create a more accessible future for everyone.
There are over 1 billion people around the world who live with a disability. Yet we still navigate a world that is not designed to be accessible.
This World Cerebral Palsy Day, we are on the search to find the next breakthrough in accessible technology and there is no one is better to help us than the cerebral palsy community, made up of millions of individuals with creative ideas and lived experience.
We’re calling on all people with cerebral palsy, friends, family and supporters to share your boldest accessible technology ideas. Every submission has a chance to win $5,000 USD. The ideas will be voted and shortlisted by the community in the lead up to World Cerebral Palsy Day.
About World Cerebral Palsy Day
Cerebral palsy is one of the least understood disabilities and people with cerebral palsy are often out of sight, out of mind and out of options in communities around the world. This needs to change.
World Cerebral Palsy Day on 6 October was created by the Cerebral Palsy Alliance in 2012 and now brings together people living with cerebral palsy, their families, allies, supporters and organisations across more than 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. It is the most common physical disability in childhood. Cerebral palsy is a permanent disability that affects movement. 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.
Cerebral palsy is a lifelong disability and there is no known cure.
Download the What is Cerebral Palsy? and the Cerebral Palsy: Diagnosis and Treatment infographic posters (PDFs) to learn more.
Reference: * Novak I, Hines M,Goldsmith S, Barclay R (2012) Clinical Prognostic Messages from a Systematic Review on Cerebral Palsy, Pediatrics, 130:5
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