Ben ##oit was born with spinal muscular disease , a rare degenerative disease . He was one of the first students in a wheelchair to attend Stanford University . More than a million handicapped kids had no access to the school system at all . Spinal muscular disease affects 1 in 6,000 Americans .
Ben ##oit was born with spinal muscular disease , a rare degenerative disease . He was one of the first students in a wheelchair to attend Stanford University . Spinal muscular disease affects 1 in 6,000 Americans .