Theresa Partlow is a pragmatist and realist.
When she watches her daughter, Catherine, run in the Special Olympics in Athens next week, Theresa will be watching one of the world’s best Special Olympics athletes.
There will be medals and a podium. There will be hugs and a celebration of Catherine having tried her best.
There’s also the reality.
Catherine has global developmental delay, a condition that about 1 per cent of the population is born with. Intellectual skills, such as speech and
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