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Scottsdale man works to create children’s hospices across country

Having created Ryan House in Phoenix, Scottsdale resident Johnathan Cottor is now working to create children’s hospices around the country.

(Courtesy Holly Cottor)

When Ryan Cottor was eight months old, his parents learned he wasn’t just a late bloomer when it comes to motor skills.

Ryan wasn’t doing things like pushing himself up or sitting unassisted but that’s because Ryan was diagnosed with a life limiting disease called spinal muscular atrophy.

“It’s a neurological disease that really, in layman’s terms, means he has no strength,” Ryan’s father Jonathan said. “He was a floppy baby.”

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