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antygamma Joined: 1/11/07 Posts: 3828 *Mommytalking Oracle* Rep points: 28030 Send PM antygamma is online!	Title: PERSON OF THE WEEK AMAZING 10 YR OLD WTG Posted: 6 months ago Jemma Leech, a 10-year-old who was one of our Persons of the Week last month, has cerebral palsy, an incurable condition that impairs her ability to communicate. Until now she has communicated with the world by tapping a touch screen with a xylophone stick as her mom steadied her hand. It is a time-consuming and often exhausting process, yet she has managed to write award-winning, intimate and wise poetry. Medical device helps 11-year-old with cerebral palsy to speak again. Last week , Leech received an early birthday present, a new $15,000 computer donated by a Swedish company that was made aware of Jemma's condition by a report on ABC affiliate KTRK in Houston. The machine allows her eyes to scan the letters instead of having to tap them out with her arm, so she will be able to communicate without any assistance. "This gift will no doubt change my life." Jemma told ABC News. "This wondrous machine will enable me to talk to my friends." She'll need intensive training on the new machine, but if all goes well Jemma will eventually be able to write with complete independence. On paper, Leech is a regular 10-year-old who goes to school and plays with her friends, but she has some lofty goals. A lover of music, opera and writing, she someday hopes to win a Grammy, an Oscar and a Nobel Prize in literature. "All in the same year, please," she adds. On paper, Leech is a regular 10-year-old, albeit one with some lofty goals. But Jemma has cerebral palsy, a disease for which there is no known cure. She has proved to have a remarkable talent for writing. Recently, she beat out 1,600 kids in an essay contest after judges unanimously voted her the winner, only to later learn that the budding novelist can't sit up without support. http://abcnews.go.com/WN/PersonOfWeek/story?i ... Phil 4:8 think on those things that are true,honest,just,pure,lovely and of good report,if there be any virtue any praise, think on these things prov.22:7 for as we think in our hearts ,so are we.... Jesus loves the little children !!! HES GOT THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD IN HIS HANDS !!!

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Title: PERSON OF THE WEEK AMAZING 10 YR OLD WTG

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Jemma Leech, a 10-year-old who was one of our Persons of the Week last month, has cerebral palsy, an incurable condition that impairs her ability to communicate. Until now she has communicated with the world by tapping a touch screen with a xylophone stick as her mom steadied her hand. It is a time-consuming and often exhausting process, yet she has managed to write award-winning, intimate and wise poetry.

Medical device helps 11-year-old with cerebral palsy to speak again.

Last week , Leech received an early birthday present, a new $15,000 computer donated by a Swedish company that was made aware of Jemma's condition by a report on ABC affiliate KTRK in Houston. The machine allows her eyes to scan the letters instead of having to tap them out with her arm, so she will be able to communicate without any assistance.

"This gift will no doubt change my life." Jemma told ABC News. "This wondrous machine will enable me to talk to my friends."

She'll need intensive training on the new machine, but if all goes well Jemma will eventually be able to write with complete independence.

On paper, Leech is a regular 10-year-old who goes to school and plays with her friends, but she has some lofty goals. A lover of music, opera and writing, she someday hopes to win a Grammy, an Oscar and a Nobel Prize in literature.

"All in the same year, please," she adds.

On paper, Leech is a regular 10-year-old, albeit one with some lofty goals. But Jemma has cerebral palsy, a disease for which there is no known cure.

She has proved to have a remarkable talent for writing. Recently, she beat out 1,600 kids in an essay contest after judges unanimously voted her the winner, only to later learn that the budding novelist can't sit up without support.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/PersonOfWeek/story?i ...

Phil 4:8 think on those things that are true,honest,just,pure,lovely and of good report,if there be any virtue any praise, think on these things
prov.22:7 for as we think in our hearts ,so are we....

Jesus loves the little children !!! HES GOT THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD IN HIS HANDS !!!