Living Beyond Disability: Personal Stories from People with Disabilities

William “Bill” Cawley

 

Bill Cawley is a 42-year-old father of four active children, all under the age of nine. He and his wife, Lizzie, were an instant match. They met and married almost two years after a diving accident left him paralyzed from the chest down.

 

Bill was a successful finance executive and philanthropist in Delaware before accepting a position with the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation three years ago. He recently relocated from Delaware to Pennsylvania with his wife and children.

 

More information about living with disabilities:

•CDC’s work in Disability and Health www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/index.html

•Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation www.christopherreeve.org

•United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3) www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=111

•CDC Video: Bernard Baker - “What’s Disability to Me?” www.cdc.gov/NCBDDD/video/bernard/index.html

•CDC Feature Article: “People with Disabilities: Living Healthy” www.cdc.gov/Features/Disabilities/

•CDC Feature Article: “Twentieth Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)” www.cdc.gov/Features/ADAAnniversary/

 

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