Emmanuel Bishop: The Teenage Violinist with Down Syndrome

Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 by Raluca Besliu
Emmanuel Bishop: The Teenage Violinist with Down Syndrome

16-year-old Emmanuel Bishop is a prodigy violinist and polyglot—who speaks English, Spanish, French and Latin—with Down syndrome. Despite his genetic condition, which occurs when an individual has a full or partial extra copy of chromosome 21, he is an ambitious young man who lets nothing stand in the way of his dreams. Emmanuel, an only […]

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Young Man with Down syndrome Runs Restaurant

Friday, January 10th, 2014 by Raluca Besliu

Tim Harris is the 27-year-old owner of Tim’s Place, a thriving and popular restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico that serves ‘breakfast, lunch and hugs’ and calls itself ‘the friendliest restaurant in the world.’ Born with Down syndrome, Tim started dreaming of opening up his own restaurant ever since he was 14. Tim may be the […]

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