answer:I went to school with a girl who has cerebral palsy. In her case, she could walk without crutches though her gait was “odd.” (I say odd because to the seven year old that I was, that was the word that i had for it.) To describe it now, I would say a severe limp. She also had a speech impediment, but if you listened closely enough you could understand what she was saying. We were in Brownies together for two years and for the first year I had a hard time understanding her, and was a little scared of her. After that first year, I didn’t really think about it. My mom was my Brownie leader and she was insistent that this girl would be treat like everyone else. Some of the girls didn’t want to be her partner for things, but my mom would have no part of that. Everyone worked with everyone and that was that. In junior high there was a young man who had been through a traumatic car accident. His mom and sister died. He would have random verbal outbursts that had nothing to do with anything going on around him. With intensive therapy, he finally stabilized and is leading a happy, productive life.