Assignment: Mental disorder child.

Assignment: Mental disorder child.

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12:30C. DAVID JOHNSON Susan does have help raising her child.

SUSAN PURCELL Hello.

12:35MADONNA FRADSHAM Hi.

SUSAN PURCELL How are you?

MADONNA FRADSHAM How are you?

C. DAVID JOHNSON Madonna Fradsham was touched by Susan’sdetermination, and impressed by her ability to learn and grow. She began as Susan’s official advocate, but has become her daily confidant and closest friend.

12:45MADONNA FRADSHAM She learns from watching other people. A prime example is first when… ah… when her daughter came home, she really wasn’t sure how to cuddle her and how to hold her and all those kinds of things, but her experience hadn’t been a loving family where people loved you and kissed you, and said I love you and you are beautiful, and you are special to me, and all those kinds of things. So others showed her how to do that. And today there is just this wonderfulbond between mother and child.

13:25(inaudible ).

13:30SUSAN PURCELL Make ‘em smell nice and good. Love you. I love you.

13:40C. DAVID JOHNSON Susan’s daughter is now a healthy and normaltwo and a half year old. But one of the greatest concerns with intellectually disabled parents is whether their limited reading and verbal skills will hinder the child’s education in years to come.

13:55SUSAN PURCELL I think that was the end of the story. Now, teddy is sleeping. (inaudible) about to sleep.

14:05MADONNA FRADSHAM You know what’s really interesting about this mother is that in the beginning over and over again, she would say, “If Iknow I can’t do it, I will let her be adopted. If when I try, I can’t do it, I would let her go, because I love her.”

14:30SUSAN PURCELL Can you do it? Can you do it?

MADONNA FRADSHAM She certainly would not be willing to do ittoday, because she has proven over and over again that she can parent this child.

14:40[sil.]

14:50C. DAVID JOHNSON The test case continues. The Department of Child Welfare is going back to court. It wants to continue to monitor the mother and child. Susan just wants them out of her life.

15:05SUSAN PURCELL I didn’t have a chance in life, but how… but now I do, because she is my last child I’m ever going to have. She is my pride and joy, she is my life. It’s not fair what you people are doing to me. I love her and I… and I know I could be a mother to her, if you give me a chance.

15:35C. DAVID JOHNSON In some ways, infancy is the easiest time for a parent. The child’s needs are simple. But what happens as the child grows older and begins to outgrow the parent, that can be a difficult experience.

15:50(inaudible).

16:05C. DAVID JOHNSON Can the child of retarded parents possibly turn out normal? Mary Ann lives in Victoria , British Colombia . She is 20 years old, and is going to college and pursuing a career in music. To get to where she is today, she had to overcome a major handicap. Both of her parents are intellectually disabled.