{"id":215941,"date":"2019-12-31T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=215941"},"modified":"2020-01-29T14:33:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:33:57","slug":"mother-bakery-special-needs-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mother-bakery-special-needs-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother opens bakery to help son and others with special needs find employment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A common concern for parents of children with disabilities is what will happen when their children become adults. It’s difficult for adults with disabilities to find employment — not because they aren’t capable, but because they are often exploited or overlooked because employers think<\/em> they aren’t capable. Increasingly, people with disabilities, or their families, are taking control of their own futures. One Illinois mom is the latest, opening a bakery for her son, and hopefully others with disabilities in the future.<\/p>\n

Margaret Cortes told KWQC<\/a> that she was told her son, Frankie, would never walk or talk when he was a baby. Yet Frankie proved them all wrong. “He can sing, he can dance, he can run, he can jump. He can do so many things,\u201d Cortes said. Yet she was scared of what would happen after he graduated high school. \u201cIt was important for me that he didn’t end up just working in a factory or working where he wasn’t getting that exposure to other people,” she explained.<\/p>\n