Saddening article in Vanity Fair re Arthur Miller institutionalizing his son Daniel, born with Down Syndrome, found via Kristina Chew's Autism Vox. You could think a lot of things about this: that it was fairly common advice to institutionalize children w/Down Syndrome in the 1960's; that we have different perceptions of what children can do and what early intervention can accomplish. But it is nevertheless horrifying, esp. when I read that Daniel's mother had wanted to keep him at home but Miller had refused. And Miller was one of my heroes, what with testifying before HUAC, etc. I'm glad his son appears to have thrived, surely under very adverse circumstances.

Which dovetails nicely with the post I've been meaning to write about going to a panel discussion given by Mitch Levitz and Jason Kingsley, but it'll wait till another day and a more reasonable hour.....