Children with disabilities disproportionately affected during COVID-19

 By Lucyna Lach and Donna Thomson New study offers families parent training for children affected by neurodevelopmental disorders. The global pandemic has been hard on Canadians, but it has hit families affected by disability disproportionately, particularly young families. School-aged children with disabilities were suddenly without supports of any kind.  Schools were shuttered in

Shut Away: When Down Syndrome was a Life Sentence

 Shut Away: When Down Syndrome was a Life Sentence By: Catherine McKercher 264 pages • ISBN 978-1773100982 "How many brothers and sisters do you have?" It was one of the first questions kids asked each other when Catherine McKercher was a child. She never knew how to answer it. Three

There is Something Special About This Ice

 The Goulbourn Figure Skating Club presents: Special Olympians and their coaches: coach Cathy Skinner (first from left), coach Natalie Cholette (first from right), coach Sarah Wammes (fourth from right) and coach Kelsey Drysdale (sixth from right) Photo by: Alex Gunther Eleven-year-old Duncan does not speak. But the boy's father Scott Miller