Special Olympics. Gary Owen met with four self-advocates this week in Washington, D. An online service that's believed to be the first of its kind is helping people with developmental disabilities find compatible roommates and settle into homes independent from their families. A restaurant manager who used violence, threats, isolation and intimidation to force a man with intellectual disability to work for years without pay was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Sexuality, marriage and parenthood of mentally retarded people
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The first thing you notice about Tammy Bachrach is that she seems completely normal in every respect. She lives with her husband, a first-year law student, in a clean, uncluttered apartment in Whittier. She has a warm, gentle, sensual way about her. She goes barefoot in long dresses and likes to sit with her heels on the edge of her chair and her arms wrapped around her knees.
She came home, cried all night, said nothing to her parents and then got up and went to work the next day. While she was at her job at a fast-food restaurant in Larchmont -- where she wiped tables, filled ketchup and mustard bottles and made change for video games -- the same man approached her. Annette, who has an I.