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Benched: Why We All Lose When Kids with Disabilities Are Shut Out of Sports
By Lara Stolman — 2015
Community leagues simply aren’t welcoming enough to kids with autism and other developmental disabilities, even when only slight modifications or support are needed to accommodate them. So parents are forced to create their own solutions if they don’t want their children to wither on the sidelines.
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