A Town Like Alice – Episode 5
Deborah Berkeley
'I remember the day I first walked into a drop-in Portage session. Alice was probably about nine months old: I was still in shock. My eyes took in a very special-needsy environment: glasses, hearing-aids, a baby dependent on oxygen being helped to pick-up Rice Krispies, a child of three or so with unintelligible speech, flapping his arms and squealing. I felt tears welling up inside. I'd hated visiting 'normal' drop-ins: feeling impatient with other parents complaining about their perfectly normal babies not doing this or that yet, when in reality they had No Idea.'
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