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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>Heroes? Victims? Or just plain parents &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do parents of kids with disabilities deserve admiration? Pity? Are they courageous? Self-important? Preachy? The public debate on these weighty topics has been raging for the past month over at the New York Times&#8217; Motherlode blog site, and shows no signs of letting up. It all started when Amy Julia Becker wrote a guest blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Monica &amp; David&#8217; premieres Thursday on HBO</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/12/monica-david-hbo-30203/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For couple with Down syndrome, does love conquer all? Newsweek calls this Tribeca-award-winning documentary &#8220;a triumph&#8221; and &#8220;a refreshing and rare story for television.&#8221; It&#8217;s a chronicle of the courtship, marriage, and happily-ever-after of Monica and David, two young people who have Down syndrome. The Washington Post calls it &#8220;a moving affair, a film that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Districts strain to serve students with multiple, severe disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[brain injury]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: School districts across the country are struggling to meet the needs of students who were once predominately isolated in institutions. Among the hard questions districts face: How can schools balance instruction in functional skills and academics for students with severe disabilities, even as they are providing custodial care? Is inclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer with disability says unsolicited advice isn&#8217;t welcome</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/05/columnist-with-disability-unsolicited-advice-29531/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 05:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gwynneth VanLaven, writing in the Washington Post, says her visible disability makes her a target for strangers who offer well-meaning but unwanted advice in a futile attempt to &#8220;fix&#8221; her. To them, she says, she represents their worst fears: &#8220;I am vulnerability incarnate.&#8221; VanLaven, who was hurt when she was hit by a car in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Monica &amp; David&#8217; takes Tribeca&#8217;s top documentary honors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the BBC, Washington Post, Miami Herald: Monica &#38; David, a documentary about the romance and marriage of two young adults with Down syndrome, has won the top documentary prize at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival. The film was directed by the female subject&#8217;s cousin, Miami&#8217;s Alexandra Codina, and was chosen from among 30 documentaries [...]]]></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>Skier McKeever is set to make Olympic history</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/25/mckeever-olympic-history-28611/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Competing in Olympics, Paralympics with ten percent of his vision From the Seattle Times, MacLean&#8217;s magazine and elsewhere: Canadian skier Brian McKeever is the first winter-sport athlete ever named to compete in both the Olympic and Paralympic teams. Like his father, McKeever has Stargardt&#8217;s disease, the most common form of inherited juvenile macular degeneration. An [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temple Grandin explains it all</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/20/temple-grandin-explains-28343/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asperger's]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a wide-ranging interview with the Wall Street Journal, Temple Grandin shares some of the insights she&#8217;s gained as &#8220;easily the most famous autistic woman in the world.&#8221; Among the nuggets: &#8211; Parents should not stop vaccinating kids because of autism fears, although they might space out the vaccinations. &#8211; She&#8217;s not convinced that autism&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One mom&#8217;s view: There&#8217;s no such thing as a perfect child</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/17/moms-view-perfect-child-28188/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an essay that&#8217;s in the most-viewed spot at the [Toronto] Globe and Mail&#8216;s website, Edmonton mom Sue Robins says she felt as though she&#8217;d been slapped when a fellow preschool mom asked her why she didn&#8217;t get prenatal testing. Robins&#8217; son, Aaron, has Down syndrome. After escaping to her car, Robins burst into tears. [...]]]></description>
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