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Argentine woman becomes first nursery teacher with Down's syndrome
- Anna Mae
- Nov 1, 2016
- 1 min read
''When Noelia Garella was a child, a nursery school rejected her as a “monster.” Now 31, she is in a class of her own.
In the face of prejudice, she is the first person with Down syndrome to work as a preschool teacher in Argentina - and one of the few in the world.
Garella's case set a precedent after the school confronted a taboo: could a person with a cognitive syndrome be in charge of a class?
Her two- and three-year-old pupils crowd around her affectionately in her classroom in the Jermonito nursery...''
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