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LAUDERHILL, FL-April 26th, 2021, was declared JULIANNA CALDERONDAY.

That evening JULIANNA CALDERON was given a Proclamation from the City of Lauderhill by Commissioner Ray Martin. She was selected as Poster Model for the Lauderhill Police Department Autism Awareness

Program and was proclaimed as the First Non-Verbal Autistic Model in Broward County, Florida by current Commissioner and Florida Congressional Candidate Dale Holeness.

In attendance was Commissioner Karlene Maxwell-Williams of Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, the first City official to endorseJulianna.

A heart-breaking diagnosis....

Born on October 5th, 1998, 7lbs, 5oz, seeming a perfectly beautiful baby, soon signs of delay began to appear around age 2. Before JULIANNA'S third birthday, her parents decided that she would see a Cardiologist for a mild heart murmur, a Neurologist for her inability to walk or talk and an Orthopedic Surgeon for a skeletal evaluation. That year, Julianna received a diagnosis of Congenital Heart Deformation, crippling, aggressive Scoliosis, and it was determined that she had Non-Verbal Autism with Cerebral Palsy combined with ADD. (Attention Deficit Disorder).

A mother's love and determination...

In 2004, overwhelmed with the diagnosis and no time for delay, mom setforth with a plan of action for her disabled daughter. Later that year, her mother, Connie Moss, a military veteran, enrolled in school to become a Licensed Massage Therapist. As a very concerned mother, she shared her daughter's disability with the instructors at school. She paid attention and followed detailed instructions to perform muscle memory therapy, acupressure therapy, hot/cold nerve treatments and stretching exercises on her daughter's limbs 30 minutes each twice a day. A year later, Julianna was 5 years old and walking! Growing up disabled....

Julianna survived corrective heart surgery (age 8) and corrective Spinal Surgery age (10). Now walking, she never complained about the (2) 12-inch titanium rods permanently

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