Thursday, September 15, 2011

making leaps and bounds

so this past weekend i volunteered at a local daycare called leaps and bouds. it's desgined especially for children with disabilities. the day i was there, i met a little boy who had cerebral palsy. he had a walker, and a tie dye shirt on. when we first started out in the play area, i wanted to make extra ceratin that he wouldnt get hurt, and the activities were something he could handle. the more we played, the more i learned that he could do anything that play area had to offer. we went on the trampoline, played in the spider web, and he even climbed up the slide by himself. i had to take a step back and realize that even though his movements might have been limited, his brain and his neurotransmitters worked completely fine. they were still tarveling through the dendrites, to the axon, and out the axon terminal to his brain. he was still receiving the necessary impulses, but his body just wasn't responding to them in the same way as say, mine would. it was amazing to realize that he could still live a normal life, with normal transmitters.

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