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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

I was in the pit of despair': Non-speaking autistic novelist Woody Brown on his journey from write-off to writer

Woody Brown, an autistic non-speaking author, shares poignant stories of misunderstood individuals in his novel 'Upward Bound' set in a care center.
fromwww.npr.org
7 months ago

These programs help poor students with college. Trump wants to pull the funding

The summer after ninth grade, Zoey Griffith found herself in an unfamiliar setting: a dorm on the Morehead State University campus. There, she'd spend the months before her sophomore year taking classes in core subjects like math and biology, as well as electives like oil painting. For Griffith, it was an opportunity, but a scary one. "It was a big deal for me to live on campus at the age of 14," she said.
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