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Caring for Decades: A Story of Parents, Children, and Disabilities
for the “good of the child and the family.” Turns out that direction was wrong. The children have better physical and mental health outcomes living at home than in institutions, and despite the challenges, or maybe because of them, the family is better off too.
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Caring for Decades: A Story of Parents, Children, and Disabilities
In 1974 Sue delivered two beautiful identical twin daughters. They were the “talk of the hospital,” she says. They were still talking days later, but for different reasons, when the girls had their first seizure in the nursery. At three months, Kaylie and Kylie were...
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Harper models to inspire the world
https://pulse.seattlechildrens.org/harper-models-to-inspire-the-world-youre-beautiful-in-your-own-skin/ ...read more
Through the Haze Living With Limited Vision
I was born three weeks early on June 22.1970. I had Snow White hair and these amazing blue eyes. The doctor who delivered me told my ... ...read more
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The reason I chose to highlight this family for #followfriday was their kindness and acceptance for people with disabilities is incredible. Elizabeth and Travis are parents to 3 darling little girls. Josie, who they adopted, has Down syndrome. They were inspired to...
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