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Podcast: Backstory Sessions
Episode: Bill McCann - Yearnings: A Memoir In Prose and Poetry
Description: The Cove Schools was the first of its kind in the nation—a school for those who (in 1948) were referred to as brain-injured children. My own difficulties are a pretty good cluster of the issues many Cove students were dealing with: low IQ, poor coordination, medical conditions, hyperactivity, distractibility, behavioral issues, and learning disabilities. There were no programs, much less schools, for such students in Kentucky in the spring of 1962. Yet by the fall of 1962 such children were enrolled in special education classes throughout the Fayette County Public Schools system..
Consequently, it is important to point out tha...