Every Least Sparrow: Special Needs Parenting

A Parent’s Expectations

Looking back, Carolyn Walker writes that it was good that she and her husband didn’t know what to expect when their daughter Jennifer was diagnosed with Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome shortly after her first birthday. They believed she would be “delayed,” and they nurtured her as such. Soon, it became apparent that she would be far from “normal.”

In Every Least Sparrow, Walker ushers us into the baffling, confusing, and yet rewarding world of parenting such a child. How
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