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Families raising children with Down syndrome find local, national support

Families raising children with Down syndrome find local, national support

BOSTON – When Carl and Julie Stone discovered four years ago that their third child, Josiah, would be born with trisomy 21, or Down syndrome, they didn't blink. "It didn't frighten us, it didn't scare us, it didn't make us sad," Stone said. "We simply wanted to spend the last 20 weeks of the pregnancy doing everything we could to give this child every possibility to succeed."

BOSTON – When Carl and Julie Stone discovered four years ago that their third child, Josiah, would be born with trisomy 21, or Down syndrome, they didn't blink. "It didn't frighten us, it didn't scare us, it didn't make us sad," Stone said. "We simply wanted to spend the last 20 weeks of the pregnancy doing everything we could to give this child every possibility to succeed."…