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"Welcome to Holland" is a prominent essay, written in 1987 by American author and social activist Emily Perl Kingsley, about having a child with a disability.The piece is given by many organizations to new parents of children with special needs issues such as Down syndrome.
Loteria Cards & Fortune Poems. City Lights Publishers. SF. Fall, 1999. CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse. University of New Mexico. Fall 1999. ISBN 978-0-8263-2114-5. Juan Felipe Herrera. The Upside Down Boy/El Nino de Cabeza. Children's Book Press, SF. 2000. Thunderweavers. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 2000. Giraffe on Fire. Poems.
[15] [2] In the poem, the poet envisions his son breastfeeding on his mother's onion blood (sangre de cebolla), and uses the child's laughter as a counterpoint to the mother's desperation. [16] In this as in other poems, the poet turns his wife's body into a mythic symbol of desperation and hope, of regenerative power desperately needed in a ...
The Safier brothers are part of a group of creators who make content about having a brother or sister with Down syndrome, which is associated with physical and mental difficulties. March 21 (3/21 ...
An 8-year-old boy with Down syndrome became a hero after he alerted his 14-year-old sister of a fire in their Colorado home, helping them get out on time before it was engulfed in flames.
Sometimes, the words he chose depended on language-specific concepts, such as gendered words in Spanish, which Alarcón played with in his poetry. [23] Alarcón was "highly-regarded" for his children's poetry. [22] He started writing poetry for children in 1997 when he realized there were very few books for children written by Latino poets. [24]
Lindsey Wiggins tells PEOPLE she had some inklings that her daughter might have Down syndrome, but "broke down" when a doctor suggested tests at 4 months old Mom in Tears After 4-Month-Old Is ...
Emily Perl Kingsley is an American writer who joined the Sesame Street team in 1970 and continued to write until her retirement in 2015.. Her son Jason Kingsley was born with Down syndrome in 1974. [1]