The online community by and for parents and caregivers of adults who have Down syndrome
Written from a sibling’s perspective Shut Away gives a glimpse into institutional life. “How many brothers and sisters do you have?” It was one of the first questions kids asked each other when Catherine McKercher was a child. She never knew how…
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Of all the tools a good advocate needs, information is the most important.
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Today’s film is a difficult watch. It touches on an aspect of our past and present that we don’t talk about much – what happens when elderly parent caregivers get sick and there is no plan in place for their adult children.
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Every Sunday during Down Syndrome Awareness Month we’ll be taking a look at how a particular movie(s) portrays a piece of our community’s history. To start us off, we’ll look at how two films, one narrative and one documentary, portrayed institutional life…
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