The life of Daniel Miller perfectly illustrates the change in attitudes to people with Down's syndrome over the past 40 years on both sides of the Atlantic.In the 1960s people with Down's syndrome were almost automatically institutionalised at birth. Reports of life in those institutions are grim. There are stories of people pretending they could not speak or read in an attempt to go unnoticed. Others tell of shackle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PM on February 19, 2017