More intellectually disabled youths go to college

Raytown resident Joyce Downing was mentioned in a flurry of print and online news stories about THRIVE – a college program for disabled youths she help start at UCM in Warrensburg.  Click HERE  to read the Associated Press article that triggered the cascade of news stories.   To get an idea of how widely the story is being covered click HERE to do a Google search on the title.

Dr. Downing is the Associate Dean of the College of Education at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg and is married to the editor of Raytown Online.