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I've been playing since I was nine years old.
I love playing soccer, basketball, and football.
If you're in a Power Chair,
when you get hit with the ball you become the ball.
Kevin is speaking through the Tobii C15,
a device enabling voice communication
though eye gaze technology
I have athetoid cerebral palsy.
My muscles don't work the way they work
for other people. So I'm in constant motion.
I get up in the morning, my mom helps me shower
And then I get dressed
I eat breakfast, I check my Email
I go off to work, I work in nonprofit
teaching advocacy and life-skills classes
to individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
I use my Permobil Sit-to-Stand Power Chair.
I could not of gotten the Sit-to-Stand Power Chair
If it weren't for the Fragile Kids Foundation
You know, when you are doing these advocacy classes
you want people to be independent
self-advocate
so it helps for them to see me in that position
And I say, look I am standing up for myself
Now you guys need stand up for yourselves