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Proliferation of special

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education funding

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has really swerved a lot of the

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focus to people who are

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more able than say,

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the kind of person my daughter is,

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who was the most severely disabled.

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And a lot of the demonstration

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projects all focused

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on this higher-functioning

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type of person.

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And this is why I think the

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development disabilities

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project/program and

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funding is so important,

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that people with... children like Mary,

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who have multiple problems,

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demand the same kind of

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attention and funding and

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programming and new ideas

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for their children, too.

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I don't think any of

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the children will be...

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today will be... although

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more and more are being kept alive...

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are going to be as held back or

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develop the problems that

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the people who were institutionalized have.