Count Us In
Growing Up With Down Syndrome
by Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz
with a foreword by Joan Ganz Cooney When Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz were born in 1971 and 1974, their obstetrician's prognoses were not good. The two boys had Down Syndrome, and their obstetricians thought that the boys should be institutionalized. Their parents disagreed. Instead, they took their sons home and raised them to be the best they could be. In this book, the boys, now 18 and 21, tell us what they've done with their lives, and how they've managed to get high school displomas and live almost normal lives.
Reading this book, you can almost forget that the boys are different. What they managed to accomplish seems so far beyond what I perceive as being possible for people with Down Syndrome forces me to re-evaluate my perception of Down Syndrome. And if you're wondering what they accomplished, read the book!
Happy reading
