A young woman presents her senior capstone project to graduate from Penn State Altoona.

But she had to face more than just nerves. Erin Kelly has cerebral palsy, she's confined to a wheel chair, and she can't speak.

She writes for the school newspaper and the Altoona Mirror. And she wrote a series of poems that she turned into her play, How to Wait.

Debbie Kelly adopted Erin from Korea. She's had cerebral palsy from birth. Erin has been writing since junior high.

Steve Sherrill is her creative writing professor. He started the program with the first words she wrote for his class. He helped her shape her poetry into her senior project. Some of her friends read those poems aloud and wrapped her in ribbons in front of the audience. After the last poem, the readers cut her free from the ribbons and presented her to the audience.

Erin will graduate December 19th. After that she'll work on getting her writing published.