This is the time of year when many parents, grandparents, siblings, and other family members flock to dance halls and theaters across the country to watch their young progeny take part in their very first dance recitals. It's an historic event for many family members, who get to witness for the first time in their child's life a performance on the big stage. The children are bundles of energy, displaying their brightly colored costumes in a way that reminds one of a beautiful field of wildflowers gently swayed by a light wind that moves them gracefully across the earth.

Read the entire column at http://www.ncpad.org/377/2119/2006-06~Issue~~Defying~Gravity~~Young~Children~with~
Cerebral~Palsy~Have~a~Chance~to~Dance.