The article below comes from Newsday.com. It is about a guy who started a website as a launchpad for disability awareness information. The article has so great Q & A! Enjoy!
Learning disabilities prompt author to offer aid to others
By Kathleen Hom | The Washington Post
8:34 PM EDT, April 29, 2009
When Quinn Bradlee was born 26 years ago, doctors detected a heart murmur, and he had open-heart surgery at three months. Then he began to have seizures, sometimes several a week. He had repeated infections, a hernia, a prolapsed lung, an allergic reaction to a bee sting: "It was always something," he says. Meanwhile, he developed speech problems and a range of learning disabilities. One teacher told his parents, Washington Post veterans Benjamin Bradlee and Sally Quinn, that they should never expect Quinn to function as a normal adult.
This article can be found in it's entirety at:
www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hslearn30-nws,0,6434120.story
Quinn's website is:
friendsofquinn.com
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