Smiles Replace Frowns for Syndrome

[Guest guest]

The light

of Schallert's life turned 39 this year. She turned it leading a full,

productive life with many of the friends she met when she was 4, and her mom

took her to a small park in Studio

City every Saturday.

That's

where Susie Schallert and dozens of other local kids with Down syndrome played

while their moms talked and leaned on one another's shoulders, way back in the

dark ages.

" Our

kids were called Mongoloids back then, " said. " The doctors told

us after our kids were born they would never walk, talk or have a life of their

own. The doctors were wrong. "

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