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Timur will soon turn 18, but he looks nothing like his age. Timur has suffered from severe disabilities since birth: tetraparesis, scoliosis, muscle contractures, and epilepsy. Timur can't sit up, can't move his arms or legs, is fed only with special formulas through a gastrostomy tube, and breathes through a tracheostomy. Timur and his mother currently spend almost all their time in the…

Mark was born at full term but suffered from serious medical conditions: intrauterine pneumonia and hypoxic-ischemic injury to the central nervous system. At one month of age, he was diagnosed with hydrocephalus and underwent shunt surgery.

Currently, little Mark cannot hold up his head, roll over, or sit up on his own. He makes no attempt to speak and does not even cry. When he was five months…