Down syndrome organization focuses on adult literacy

Reading tutor Carla Harper sits across from Ethan Boerner, who is sounding out words.
Ethan meets regularly with tutor Carla Harper, left. "He's doing great," she said.

When it came to reading, Ethan Boerner didn’t make a lot of progress in school. “It just seemed so hard,” said Boerner, who has Down syndrome. “I wasn’t interested.” He never really got the chance to discover whether he might have been more successful as an older student. His educational programs moved along, and Boerner …

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