Sandy Murphy

House-building charity for exceptional needs starts with Cottam home

A 25-year wait list for supported living housing was unthinkable for Sandy and Darrin Murphy. Their son Joshua is only 12 years old so the Kingsville couple decided to start a house-building charity now so people with an intellectual disability like Joshua will have a chance to move out of their parents’ home. “If there’s

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Families agonize over who will care for their severely disabled children as they age

Original Article and Image Credit: ctvnews.ca  Image Caption: Deane Daprato when he was six-years-old and a day student at what was then called Bloorview MacMillan Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. When Deane Daprato was born in Toronto in 1998, his parents Mark and Ijeoma were given a frightening diagnosis: Spastic Quadriplegia, a type of cerebral palsy. “You’d

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