World Autism Awareness Day: dual diagnosis with Down syndrome

Today is World Autism Awareness Day. Autism is yet another condition that shows individuals with Down syndrome are individuals first. Continue Reading

Wrongful birth and abortion: what’s the damage of disability?

In a very moving article, Kristina Chew wrote of her son, who has autism, and whether she would have aborted him if given the chance through prenatal testing. In South Africa, a couple was awarded 4.4 million Rand (or about $440,000) precisely because they were not told prenatally their child had Down syndrome--they said they would have aborted had they known prenatally. Both stories are revealing in what they consider the damage of disability. Continue Reading