The Conversation is a website that encourages academics to comment on a wide range of issues "from the curious to the serious". Jan Gothard 's article How come you don’t want one?: Living with Down Syndrome, published today discusses her book Greater Expectations, published in March this year, and why she wrote it, in the context of how much attitudes about disability in general and Down syndrome in particular have changed (and gives some stark examples of still-alive prejudices), and how far we have to go to be truly inclusive.
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