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		<title>Having a Child with Down Syndrome, Part XIV: NDSC 2010 Convention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright © 2010, Stephen Hawley, all rights reserved.
This past week, my family and I attended the NDSC annual convention,  held this year at Disney World in Orlando.  My son Stuart went  voluntarily deaf, as is his wont, and ended up tripping over his own  feet and whacking his head on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Unction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The better part of the past few days have been spent in the hospital watching my mom&#8217;s health decline further and further.  We realized that she had not been given any sacraments since being admitted and asked the hospice nurse to bring in a priest.
It was a very emotional moment.  When I first learned about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plinth.org/wordpress/?p=45</link>
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		<title>Having a Child with Down Syndrome Part XIII: Surprise Mourning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright © 2010, Stephen Hawley, all rights reserved.
My alma mater, Oberlin, hosted a 25th year reunion for computer science  students this weekend.  This was an event for which I was quite eager to  be an active participant.  I have a strong passion for software and the  process of writing software. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plinth.org/wordpress/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Blast from the Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t updated in a while &#8211; no surprise.  Here&#8217;s a blast from the past &#8211; an email I wrote some 7 years ago, six days after Alice was born.

Alice is off her glucose drip and is now breathing without her nasal canula most of the time.  She occasionally needs it during feeding because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plinth.org/wordpress/?p=40</link>
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		<title>Having a Child with Down Syndrome Part X: The Inevitable Comparison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright © 2009, Stephen Hawley, all rights reserved.
If you have two or more kids, you compare them.  You have to.  They&#8217;re side by side, they look somewhat alike, they act somewhat alike.  People look for patterns, especially in those closest to them.
When I&#8217;m in a more depressed end of the scale, I think that Stuart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plinth.org/wordpress/?p=38</link>
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		<title>Having a Child with Down Syndrome Part IX: Exciting Windows of Normality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright © 2009, Stephen Hawley, all rights reserved.
Every child is different. Every child with Down syndrome is even more different. Part of this is simple truism. By the virtue of DNA we are all unique, but due to the complications and unusual physical issues that arise, the Down syndrome population tends to stand apart more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plinth.org/wordpress/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Please Sarah Palin, Just Go Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright © 2009, Stephen Hawley All Rights Reserved
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama&#8217;s &#8220;death panel&#8221; so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their &#8220;level of productivity in society,&#8221; whether they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plinth.org/wordpress/?p=33</link>
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		<title>For the Bots who are Spamming Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Уважаемые русские роботы, вам тут не рады.
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		<link>http://www.plinth.org/wordpress/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Having a Child with Down Syndrome Part VIII: Bipolarity and Milestones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright © 2009 Steve Hawley, All rights reserved.
One of the hard parts of being a parent with a child with disabilities is the intimate and thorough knowledge you get of milestones. Much of early intervention for us centered around looking ahead to milestones and figuring out how to back-chain small skills into reaching milestones. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plinth.org/wordpress/?p=29</link>
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		<title>Having a Child with Down Syndrome Part VII: Decoding the Medical Arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright © 2009 Steve Hawley, All rights reserved.
I never took Latin. In theory, I had the opportunity when I was in high school, as there was still a single Latin class being taught, but due to an aggressive honors schedule, this was not possible. The teacher was also thought to be senile, so many people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plinth.org/wordpress/?p=23</link>
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