Developmental Disabilities in the News
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
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The artwork Larry Deskiewicz creates by moving the paintbrush affixed to a bicycle helmet on his head relaxes the muscles that his cerebral palsy makes tight and makes him feel good in general.
“It calms down my mind,” he said.
His collected works have been growing over the past two decades, since
an occupational therapist figured out a way for him to paint without using his hands, which are too constricted to hold a brush
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