Jerry and I, plus several staff members and 16 Ranchers with Down syndrome just returned from Indianapolis where we attended the annual convention of the National Down Syndrome Congress. Jerry and I went in a few days early in order to visit a sister village community in Ohio, about an hour away. It’s called Safe…
“Hey, Buddy! I’ll take you to get some ice cream. We’ll go anywhere you want as long as it’s Baskin-Robbins, and you can have any kind of ice cream you want as long as it’s vanilla! “It’s absolutely your choice!”This is the message of your federal government, as articulated by Mark Olson, head of LTO…
OK, so today’s our first autism training class we’ve had for quite a while. In planning our session over the past week, my mind kept going back to an experience that got me in trouble that I’d had in Mexico as a graduate student in Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Colorado many years…
When you have a baby with Down syndrome, life suddenly gets very complicated. You feel like you’ve been kicked out of one universe and somehow wound up in another. But after a while the tears dry up and the fears die down and life begins to resume a patina of normalcy. The baby? The baby’s adorable. He’s…