American fiction these days is a richly inclusive stew of identities, but it has surprisingly few examples of the "developmentally disabled" point of view.
Assembly members argued the programs that feed and care for developmentallydisabled youths and adults in group homes already often face short staffing that hurts care.
The Assembly's daylong march to approve the state budget was interrupted briefly on Thursday by an impassioned rank-and-file effort to reverse cuts in programs for the developmentallydisabled.
The 16-year-old actress got her start in 2001's I Am Sam, which starred Sean Penn as a developmentallydisabled father trying to gain custody of his 7-year-old daughter (Fanning).