Education: New Day for the Handicapped

Now they will go to school with everyone else

The TV camera zooms in on an athletic-looking young man with wispy blond hair. He begins to speak—and the effort is as painful to the viewer as it is for him "They told my parents I'd never live past three," he says, his face contorted by the struggle to form the words. "But here I am." Pause. "They told my parents that I'd never talk, but I talked at five. They said I'd never be able to drive, but after nine years of training my body"—he...

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