For years, 29-year-old Staci Christensen has wondered what it would be like to go to college, have a boyfriend, drive a car, meet friends at a movie theater or go outside after midnight to look at the stars just because she feels like it.
They’re simple dreams, she says, but because the Payson, Utah, woman has Down syndrome and lives in an intermediate-care facility with 16 other people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, her goals haven’t been possible.
But that could all change if a class-action lawsuit filed last month against the state of Utah in Salt Lake City’s U.
They’re simple dreams, she says, but because the Payson, Utah, woman has Down syndrome and lives in an intermediate-care facility with 16 other people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, her goals haven’t been possible.
But that could all change if a class-action lawsuit filed last month against the state of Utah in Salt Lake City’s U.
- 2/21/2018
- by Cathy Free
- PEOPLE.com
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