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Last month, federal immigration agents separated a 10-year-old gi*l with Down syndrome from her mother at the border. Nine months before that, agents did the same to a 16-year-old boy with autism, taking him from his caregiver grandmother. Unimaginably unconscionable, their separations and those of some 2,300 other children at the border from their parents and other caregivers came in the wake of president Trump’s zero tolerance policy against immigrants allegedly entering the country illegally. Though the president eventually signed an executive order June 20 calling for children to instead be detained with their families through the When the price tag was under $1 million, the 2017–2018 Delaware General As*embly overwhelmingly approved bills that should benefit the Delawareans with disabilities no longer will face discrimination in organ transplant determinations. School resource officers will be trained to use de-escalation, not restraint and seclusion, as a disciplinary technique. State health services won’t be able to “claw back” funds from ABLE accounts upon the beneficiary’s death. The Legislature also started a program to forgive as much as $10,000 in student loans for educators in short-staffed fields, including special education. And with a growing population of students diagnosed with autism, lawmakers created positions for autism specialists who will offer training and as*istance in schools across Delaware. The new Delaware Advance Scholarship Program will reduce tuition costs for When a bill’s price tag topped $1 million, though, state lawmakers stepped forward, rocked backward, or stood still. I can’t shake the memory of Artfest. Don’t want to, really. The creative workshop and community celebration that the Center for Disabilities Studies and Art Therapy Express hosted a couple Saturdays ago lasted just two hours, but the wall-to-wall smiles, the camaraderie, the incredible artwork left an indelible mark. Opportunities for Artfest participants – individuals of all ages, backgrounds and types of disabilities – to express their artistic