My Aunt, Elinor Gyatt, is a Babtist Missionary, educator, and the mother of an adult son with Downs Syndrome. Peter was born in the days when he was called a Mosaic Mongoloid child. Elinor is writing a book about raising a Downs child in a third world country, Costa Rica and later Colombia. Her credentials are quite vast and her personal experience is quite wide. She has little tolerance for for a system that renames itself on an almost annual basis. We talked about this very topic over Gin and Tonics and Ice Teas last summer.( She had the tea.) Elinor said its a lot like building a bridge to get from one side of the gorge to the other. You know where you are and where you are going. Don't let the solution, the bridge, stand in the way of you getting there. She said if people had spent the same time working on solutions that they had spent on debating labels and names, great strides could have been made in care, education, and the advancement of individual dignity.

Don