A great article appeared in the October 8, 2008 edition of the Triangle & Observer (Raleigh, NC): Upside for people with Down syndrome by Thomas Goldsmith.

It is a wonderful, positive, encouraging article of the type we need more of. But one of the best parts was the correction that ran on Oct. 9. It reads:

In the Life, etc., section Tuesday, the headline on a story about a young woman with Down syndrome wrongly referred to people with the syndrome as patients and sufferers. No one in the story was a patient in a medical facility, and no one in the story was suffering.

AMEN!