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PHILADELPHIA ( KYW ) -- A family with a daughter receiving treatment at Shriners Children's Hospital in Philadelphia says this Thanksgiving, they have a lot to be grateful for.

Eleven-year-old Desa Kaiser, a young dancer who was paralyzed in an accident, is back on the dance floor thanks to some special ingenuity.

The sixth grader is paralyzed from the waist down after a car crash.

"I was sad, but I knew that I'll have a lot of people around me to help me," Desa said.

That help is at Shriners Children's, where she gets physical therapy. The Shriners team even helped get Desa back on the dance floor in a specialized dancing wheelchair.

"It's an amazing chair that's different from others," Desa said, "because you can be more free in it and you can

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