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		<title>Columnist: Documentary dismantles stereotypes about DS</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/14/monica-david-falcone-30281/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Herald columnist Lauren Beckham Falcone on HBO&#8217;s documentary about a young married couple with Down syndrome: &#8220;Monica &#38; David&#8221; is more than a love story; it is a reverential, nuanced movie that shows that people with developmental disabilities want the same things everyone wants out of life: Love. Work. Companionship. Independence. These things aren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian nonprofit brings innovation to adult living</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On National Public Radio, a feature about a Vancouver nonprofit organization that is reimagining traditional ways of providing support to adults with disabilities. The group, called Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN), helps to set up and nurture long-term support networks for individuals. It also spearheaded a successful nationwide effort to set up tax-deferred savings plans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Hennefer highlights the possibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Minnick, writing for the Cherry Hill [NJ] Courier-Post, profiles Brad Hennefer, the 21-year-old athlete who is the heart of the Brad Hennefer Golf for Life Foundation. The foundation. which introduces the game of golf to people with Down syndrome, was created in 2006 by Brad and his brother Bobby, mother Nancy and father Bob [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts families fight to keep institution open</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/23/massachusetts-fernald-29644/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 00:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Massachusetts approaches a June 30 target for closing the Fernald Developmental Center in Waltham, families of its 89 residents are fighting to keep the 200-acre institution open. Here&#8217;s a sampling of some recent coverage: They fight for Fernald &#8212; Waltham, MA, Daily News Tribune. Nearly 50 people gathered to picket at the Fernald Developmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents sue over adoption of Russian boy with fetal alcohol syndrome</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/28/parents-sue-over-adoption-29342/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claim they weren&#8217;t adequately informed by adoption agency From the New York Times: A couple from Virginia Beach is suing Bethany Christian Services, an adoption agency, seeking compensation for the care of their Russian adoptive son, Roman. Chip and Julie Harshaw claim the agency misled them about Roman&#8217;s condition, describing him as &#8220;a beautiful, healthy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School district seeks help in mediating special ed disputes</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/20/school-district-mediating-29275/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GreenwichTime.com: The Greenwich, Connecticut, school district has asked a group of graduate students to help it work better with parents to avoid costly litigation over special education services for children with disabilities. The students, who are training at SUNY Oswego College to be school superintendents, will conduct case studies of 20 Greenwich families who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does mom with disabilities have right to see her children?</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/11/mom-disabilities-children-29178/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[brain injury]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legal battle looms over parental rights of woman injured in childbirth By Maria L. La Ganga in the Los Angeles Times: Abbie Dorn, who conceived triplets following fertility treatments, was injured in childbirth four years ago and now is no longer able to move or speak. Her husband, Dan Dorn, has since divorced Abbie and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A mom&#8217;s story: Mixed emotions over fixing son&#8217;s cleft lip</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/26/mixed-emotions-cleft-lip-28646/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in  the New York Times Motherlode blog, Meera Oliva says she was devastated when she learned prenatally that the child she was carrying had a cleft lip, but her concerns disappeared as soon as her son, Elan, was born. Now that Elan is six months old and about to undergo his third surgery, Oliva [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribute to Kevin Pearce, snowboarder with brain injury</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/24/kevin-pearce-28542/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tom Brokaw, NBC News, a feature about American athlete Kevin Pearce, who was considered one of the best snowboarders bound for the Olympics until he was gravely injured in a training run. He sustained a traumatic brain injury, and is now working to regain his speech, vision and physical coordination. Brokaw says Pearce has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Connecticut institution should be closed</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/23/southbury-training-school-28529/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Our leaders fail the neediest&#8217; Columnist Rick Green, writing in the Hartford Courant, says Connecticut&#8217;s leaders have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a legal fight to keep the Southbury Training School open, even though they know the facility violates federal discrimination law. &#8220;We will pay dearly for this,&#8221; he writes. A legal challenge [...]]]></description>
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