Prior to 1979, most professionals thought children with Down syndrome were not capable of learning to read. It took a group of 15 parents to show the world differently. In 1980, this group of brave parents began working with their children who had Down syndrome to teach them to read. Thanks to those parents, we now know that many children with Down syndrome can learn to read and that some of these children even begin to read at an unusually early age. This is a far cry from what parents of...
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