A long time ago, I represented a special little boy named Maury. Maury had been developing wonderfully in his first years of life until three, when he was struck with many days of encephalitis-like strokes which tragically reduced his functioning to that of a one to five month old. He was cortically blind, could not sit, walk, or talk. He was still a beautiful kid and the most frustrating part of the tragedy was that he had a blockage at the base of his brain; it was completely unknown if stimuli was getting to his brain because he had no way to tell us.
