Deborah served as activist, mentor, friend, sister and boss to many in Memphis and across the country.

At the age of four, I quickly had to come to terms with the devastating reality of contracting polio. I was born in Israel in 1945, but it would be another decade before the country began a national immunization program.

Ross Reynolds speaks with polio survivor and post-polio syndrome sufferer Kathy Parrish about her experience as a child with polio and the lasting impacts of the disease.

Peter Kavanagh is recalling a time four decades past. Stricken with paralytic poliomyelitis during the epidemic of 1953, he has lived a physical life of what he calls “really bad odds”

I grew up proud to be a polio survivor, blissfully unaware of the stigma many people attach to paralysis and deformity.

Physiotherapy - The Australian Experience (Video)