Did You Know?

• UCPA estimates that between 1 and 3 of every 1,000 births will have Cerebral Palsy.
  
  
• In 1997 in the U.S.A. there were 3,880,894 births according to the CDC.
  
  
• One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had cerebral palsy. His name was Stephen Hopkins
  
  
• Cerebral Palsy may sometimes be called Little's disease. This is because of the work of a British physician named William John Little (1810-1894). "Little's disease" specifically referes to congenital spastic cerebral palsy particular spastic diplegia and spastic hemiplegia.

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