Oregon Live – Betsy Hammond
“In Portland and around the country, a generation of children with intellectual disabilities has grown up integrated into their schools and society like never before. Young people like 20-year-old Grant High graduate Cody Sullivan and 16-year-old Benson High sophomore Daniel Jarvis-Holland, both of whom have Down syndrome, attended all the same classes as other kids their age since kindergarten. And they’ve done the other things children and young adults do, too: join clubs, ride bikes, use social media, play on sports teams, work summer jobs. But even their parents, who fought hard to get them included in regular classrooms in elementary and high school, were surprised to learn what their children expect next: They assume they will go to college…It turns out that, at least for a small segment of the Portland area’s young adults with intellectual disabilities, college will in fact be possible.”(more)