Special Needs or Individual Needs?

Can you bring up every child in exactly the same way? Highly unlikely. And even if you could, would they all develop in the exactly the same way? Of course not. My daughter, Meg, is a unique combination of her genes and her environment. She is like people with long, straight, blond hair and unlike…

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Welcome To The Club

Soon after my son Parker was born, my friend, also a mother of a child with Down Syndrome, called to congratulate me. “Welcome to the club!”, she exclaimed. “You’re gonna love it!” “Uh”…..I astutely replied, “Come again?” This wasn’t the first time I had been on the receiving end of such a sentiment. Another friend…

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