Description: "What’s most evident in the narrative is the love that De Simone and her husband have for their two boys...A moving account of caring and advocating for children with disabilities." – Kirkus Reviews Learn More Order Fall and Recovery: Bookshop The BookMark Shoppe Amazon [Words] Bookstore Barnes&Noble Joanne De Simone is a graduate of Hunter…
Last week, I came across this story about a New Jersey student with disabilities who was accidentally strangled to death on her school bus.
“In the last minutes of her life, 6-year-old Fajr Williams flailed her arms and legs, shrieked or gasped twice and kicked the window of her school bus.”
Apparently, the bus aide was wearing ear buds and was too preoccupied with her cell phone to realize the child was dying.