Alem Mumuni contracted polio at the age of two in Ghana, a place where few people ever overcome the burdens of the crippling disease, but he has beaten them all, becoming a well-educated, world-class ...

As a baby, Nadina LaSpina contracted polio and couldn't walk following her illness. Years later, she had her legs amputated due to complications. Eventually, she and her family moved from Sicily to ...

Leonard Kriegel was 11 years old when he became a cripple. That was how he wished to be known — not as “handicapped,” nor “disabled,” nor “differently abled,” nor by any other euphemism that, in his ...