Help Joanne Lara Get a New Right Shoulder
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Dear Autism Community and World-at-Large,
Please help Joanne Lara get a new right shoulder. This is the beautiful and talented Joanne Lara. Joanne has spent the last two decades working with children, teens and adults on the Autism Spectrum, most notably as the founder of Autism Movement Therapy and the co-creator of Autism Works Now. Watch Joanne in motion as she conducts an Autism Movement Therapy class.Joanne is a trained dancer with a special ability to reach inside individuals with different abilities and help them to access movement. Her work is powerful. But Joanne is limited at the moment by a shoulder badly in need of replacement. If she goes the traditional route her recovery will be 3 months minimum. Another Orthopedic Sports Medicine doctor is recommending a cutting edge procedure that takes the stem cells from Joanne's pelvic area and places the marrow in her right shoulder, this will restore her shoulder and make it possible to return to work 48 hour later.
The rub? Her insurance won't cover the entire procedure. Joanne needs $7000 to access this new procedure without downtime. If we help her our community gets 3 more months of her spitfire advocacy, adult employment mentorship and movement therapy. Trust me, it's worth so much more than $7000. Listen to Joanne speaking in January of this year at an International Autism Conference in India about the brain and movement.This is not a woman who should be sidelined for 3 months. Please share and donate so we can get Joanne back in the game, quicker, better, healthier!
We need her! Watch this ABC news piece on Autism Movement Therapy.Or this video of Joanne teaching others how to implement Autism Movement Therapy in her aut-erobics DVD!Please help Joanne to get a new right shoulder by donating now. She urgently needs this procedure as she is in a great deal of pain and no longer has her full range of motion. Donations of all sizes are welcome, each gets her closer to her goal. Thank you!
Shannon Penrod
Host of Autism Live
Please help Joanne Lara get a new right shoulder. This is the beautiful and talented Joanne Lara. Joanne has spent the last two decades working with children, teens and adults on the Autism Spectrum, most notably as the founder of Autism Movement Therapy and the co-creator of Autism Works Now. Watch Joanne in motion as she conducts an Autism Movement Therapy class.Joanne is a trained dancer with a special ability to reach inside individuals with different abilities and help them to access movement. Her work is powerful. But Joanne is limited at the moment by a shoulder badly in need of replacement. If she goes the traditional route her recovery will be 3 months minimum. Another Orthopedic Sports Medicine doctor is recommending a cutting edge procedure that takes the stem cells from Joanne's pelvic area and places the marrow in her right shoulder, this will restore her shoulder and make it possible to return to work 48 hour later.
The rub? Her insurance won't cover the entire procedure. Joanne needs $7000 to access this new procedure without downtime. If we help her our community gets 3 more months of her spitfire advocacy, adult employment mentorship and movement therapy. Trust me, it's worth so much more than $7000. Listen to Joanne speaking in January of this year at an International Autism Conference in India about the brain and movement.This is not a woman who should be sidelined for 3 months. Please share and donate so we can get Joanne back in the game, quicker, better, healthier!
We need her! Watch this ABC news piece on Autism Movement Therapy.Or this video of Joanne teaching others how to implement Autism Movement Therapy in her aut-erobics DVD!Please help Joanne to get a new right shoulder by donating now. She urgently needs this procedure as she is in a great deal of pain and no longer has her full range of motion. Donations of all sizes are welcome, each gets her closer to her goal. Thank you!
Shannon Penrod
Host of Autism Live
Organizer and beneficiary
Shannon Penrod
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA
Joanne Lara
Beneficiary