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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.
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 broken Spain. In July 2010 the poet's family filed a lawsuit in the Spanish Supreme Court in which they asked for his guilty verdict (for his supposed crime of left wing sympathies), to be annulled.
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]
The poems were written in the Spanish language by Pedro Paterno, a Filipino poet, novelist, politician, [1] and former seminarian. [2] The Tagalog word sampaguita (uses the Spanish-style spelling of "sampagita") in the title of the book refers to the Jasminum sambac, a species of jasmine that is native to the Philippines and other parts of ...
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.
Pedro Alejandro Paterno y de Vera Ignacio [2] [note 1] (February 27, 1857 – April 26, 1911) [note 2] [3] was a Filipino politician. He was also a poet and a novelist. [4]His intervention on behalf of the Spanish led to the signing of the Pact of Biak-na-Bato on December 14, 1897, an account of which he published in 1910.
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 ...