'I Am a Man with Down Syndrome and My Life Is Worth Living'
Congressional testimony that illuminates what a developmental disability means—and doesn’t mean
Last week, the actor, Special Olympian, and advocate Frank Stephens gave this testimony to Congress: “I am a man with Down syndrome and my life is worth living.”
In fact, he went farther: “I have a great life!”
For those conceived with his developmental disability, it is the best and worst of times. “The life expectancy for someone born with Down syndrome has increased from twenty-five in the early 1980s to more than fifty today,” Caitrin Keiper in . “In many other ways as well, a child
