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Mainstay – Building community for adults with intellectual disabilities, supporters

By Melissa Wagoner On the day Kriston Norris and Rebecca Ortega met at Silverton Indoor Park in 2003 they never could have imagined what their friendship – or the friendships of their four-year-old sons, Noah and Carson – would come to mean. “We’ve walked the same path,” Ortega – whose son, Carson, was diagnosed with an intellectual disability at roughly […]

A whole spectrum – Two moms talk about raising sons with autism

By Melissa Wagoner When Natashia Kletter and Kriston Norris became mothers to their sons, Kenny and Noah, they knew their lives were about to change. What they didn’t know was how much. “Even as a baby, there were things I could see,” Norris said. Recalling the many unique attributes her son, Noah, exhibited not long after birth. “But it was […]