STUDENT VOICE: How one youth with a disability discovered he was so much more than that [hechingerreport.org]

Alicia Doktor 12/22/1712:00 PM

Your disabilities do not mean you can’t choose what you want to do with your life.

I have made it my mission to communicate to other young people like me. I do this in part by telling them about my personal journey:

I was almost 21 and I had no idea where I was going in life. With a dual diagnosis of “mild intellectual disability” and autism, I never felt like I had a voice, a choice or any idea what the future held.

[For more on this story by KEVIN FORTUNATO, go to http://hechingerreport.org/stu...ity-discovered-much/]

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