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Contact: Tim Wheat
The Memphis Center for Independent Living

work phone: 726-6404
fax: 726-6521

Christmas Dance for Youth and Young Adults with disabilities.

MEMPHIS (November 27, 1996) Memphis area youth and young adults with disabilities will have a Christmas Dance at the United Cerebral Palsy headquarters on December 6th from 8 till 11 p.m. The dance is sponsored by the Catholic group for youth with disabilities, Learning Disabilities Association, United Cerebral Palsy social group, Brain Injury group, and PALs II and III.

The 5 sponsoring organizations have invited 125 young people to the dance. Craig and Cindy Fuller from Disk Jockey's Etc. will provide the music. No lone disability is singled out, the event is geared for youth with any disability. "This is a unique opportunity for young people with disabilities." Said Pat Jessup, coordinator of PALs. "Dances are not usually planned for youth with disabilities so generally they are left out."

The UCP headquarters is located at 4198 Leroy in St. James Catholic Church.

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An estimated 4.0 million children and adolescents or 6.1 percent of the U.S. population under 18 years of age, have disabilities. --Disabilities Among Children, Barbara L. Wenger, H. Stephen Kaye, and Mitchell P. LaPlante. Disability Statistics Abstract, March 1996, #15. U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. p. 1

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1633 Madison Avenue , Memphis TN 38104
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