Michael Long was the first person with cognitive disabilities employed by a state government (California]. He was a liaison to the disability community. He went through the CA school system before the Right To Education.
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“The umbilical cord was wrapped around my throat, and I lost a lot of oxygen. There were 13 years of school, and I didn’t enjoy 12-˝ of them, because people were calling me ‘retard’. We are not retards. We are people just like you.”
She never felt safe at home as a young girl, and didn't understand why when she finally escaped she wasn't safe in the big wide world either ...effectively jumping out of the frying pan into the fire!
The true story of Cheryl Pierson Cuccio who made headlines in 1986 and her husband Rob Cuccio. Cheryl was abused sexually and physically and Rob died for 43 minutes on Cheryl's 43rd birthday.
Inside the Methadone Clinic. Addiction to heroin, methadone, and other opiates. Destruction. The primal addiction" of the child, power and control over your own life, the institutions and the characters, the love between a mother and son. This book i
