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Subject: Re: Unplanned pregnancy led to hurt and sadness

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Pat

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Date Posted: 02:13:17 09/09/07 Sun
In reply to: Claire 's message, "Unplanned pregnancy led to hurt and sadness" on 00:19:00 09/09/07 Sun

I thought of a couple of things I wanted to add. First of all, talking to your doctor may be a useless thing to do. There is tremendous prejudice against people with Down Syndrome. When even the "experts" don't think there is any point in training the mind of a child with DS, how would anyone expect a doctor to have anything BUT prejudice and mistaken ideas? One of the things we need to do as a society is to develop educational methods that work with children with DS, and we need to stop settling for second-best. These children CAN be educated, and it is criminal that we don't bother. The Montessori method is one very good way to do it, but there are other things that can be done as well.

Pat

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