Casey found his voice, shared it for the disabled
by Kevin Cody “If I could write everything I am thinking, my words would reach to the sky,” Casey Rohrer says in a 2016 documentary about a play he had written. At the time, his play, “Once Upon a Road Trip,” was in rehearsals with the Family Theater production company at the Hermosa Beach Second Story Theater. “The play is about how it feels when you don’t have a voice,” Rohrer says in the video. He meant that literally. Rohrer was born with Cerebral Palsy. The disease deprives its victims of muscle control, with the notable exception of the eyes. “If I wanted a glass of water, I had to play 21 questions,” he recalls in the video. Casey Rohrer, and fellow players Liam and Conner Foley rehearse for the production of “Once Upon a Road Trip,” at the Second Story Theater in 2016. Photo courtesy Beth Rohrer That changed in second grade, when he received a Tobii C 112, similar to the machine that enabled astronomer Stephen Hawking to talk. The eye activated voice machine enabled Rohrer to read aloud and participate in class discussions. It was transformative for both him, and his Hermosa Valley school classmates, recalled his second grade teacher Jeannine Madden. “The students have…
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