This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013:
Colleen Kilsheimer once thought her son Stephen, born with Down Syndrome, never would know how to spell his own last name or slide his arms into the sleeves of a coat to bundle himself up against the St. Louis winter.
But he surprised her.
He could spell his last name just fine.
And, at 4 years old, he spread his coat out on the floor before putting it on.
“I thought I would cry,” she said. “That was such a treat.”