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Respecting the intellectually disabled for who they are, rather than who we want them to be

- by Ian Brown Updated 11:22, Apr. 14, 2020 | Published 7:00, May. 7, 2014This article was published over a year ago. Some information may no longer be current.
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Ian Brown won the Charles Taylor Prize for his 2009 book, The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son.

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