FW: TV Guide - Gage Golightly...

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Hi all,

My aunt sent this note in her latest TV guide regarding a 10-year old

girl acting in an upcoming SciFi Channel mini-series. I thought it was

interesting that Apraxia is getting some mainstream publicity. Has

anyone on this list met Gage and know her story?

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A walking, talking miracle

Though a relative newcomer to acting, 10-year-old Gage Golightly more

than

holds her own with 5ive Days' veteran cast--a remarkable feat when you

consider what she's been through in her young life. Born with a rare

disorder called apraxia of speech, Golightly was nearly 6 years old

before

she was able to talk.

" She growled and made guttural noises, but nothing you could

understand, "

says her mother, Michele. " She'd get so angry that she would bang her

head

until it bled. It was horrific. " But she persevered through several

years

of intensive speech therapy. Today the young actress is a straight-A

student who has trouble keeping quiet in school. " I'm like a Chatty

doll with a broken string, " Golightly says.

As for playing the super-smart , " I love science as much as ,

so

it was pretty darn easy. "