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…
read moreBy Stephanie Holland A recent article, Forgetting not an option: Horrors at Willowbrook State School remembered at annual CSI lecture caught my eye for two reasons: It brought back memories from when I first heard about the beginnings of deinstitutionalization, and I’ve recently been writing about…
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