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Winifred contracted polio at age 6, but although she was in a leg brace for several years, she made a complete recovery and took up ballet to strengthen the affected leg. She attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College [4] and graduated from Ohio State University in 1947, [5] double-majoring in English and Music. [6]
Childhood polio deformed his feet restricting him indoors where he developed a love of reading. [75] H. Ramakrishnan: born 1941: Journalist and speaker on disabled rights. Ramakrishna was paralysed by polio, aged two, and walks with leg braces. [76] Jessie Sampter: 1883–1938 Zionist educator, poet and pioneer. She caught polio, aged thirteen ...
McPherson became paraplegic in infancy, after surviving polio. [2] She used arm crutches, leg braces, and a wheelchair. [3] [4] She was a student at Vancouver's Little Flower Academy, [4] [1] and attended Vancouver City College. [5]
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame childhood polio and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.
Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. Suddenly, her arms and legs became weak, and by the time she got to a hospital in Indianapolis, she was ...
She survived polio in infancy, was treated at Children's Hospital in Boston, MA. She spent months in casts from the nap of her neck to her toes, but did learn to walk (with crutches and braces on both legs) at the same age as other children. She spent much of her childhood in an orphanage in Nashua, New Hampshire.