Family

Jane Campbell: Positive Parents


Jane was born in 1959 in Surrey and attended a local special school from age six to age sixteen. She then went on to a residential special college in Coventry, going on from there to University.

Here Jane talks about her relationship with her parents.

  • Jane Campbell
  • Jane Campbell
  • Jane Campbell
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Transcript

Well, luckily my parents were both very, very positive and very, very strong individuals, so they wouldn’t accept the predictions. In the beginning of course they did and they were of course distressed, upset, I have to say, very unsupported by the medical profession. But on the whole, they were very strong and in the end treated me like any other child.

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