Artist Shirks Fame to Invent Tools That Allow Kids with Disabilities to Paint Eleanor Goldberg - HuffPost
go to original July 20, 2015

When Madison was first diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, her doctor didn’t know a whole lot about the genetic condition. She flat-out told Madison’s fearful parents that their baby wouldn’t make it to her 2nd birthday.

“That was pretty tough,” Jennifer Miller-Smith, Madison’s mom, told The Huffington Post.

Seven years later, while the second-grader relies on a wheelchair and faces the disease’s degenerative effects, Madison is “thriving,” her mom proudly shared. A lot of that is thanks to Dwayne Szot, an artist who has committed his career to inventing tools that enable kids with disabilities to paint, draw, blow bubbles – pretty much do anything any typical child gets to do.

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