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Shira Schoenberg

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Boston Globe editorial writer. Former #MAPoli reporter

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Massachusetts should expand education and screening for serious newborn illness

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By Shira Schoenberg
| The Boston Globe
Vanessa Colleran, 37, of Oxford, hadn’t heard of congenital cytomegalovirus until she was told something was wrong with her son in utero. He was born via emergency caesarean section at 27 weeks and diagnosed with cCMV. Tragically, he died of disease complications four months later, in 2017. Danielle Lavon, 40, of Billerica, learned of cCMV in 2022 after her third pregnancy when her son failed his newborn hearing test in one ear.
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‘I live for your performances’: Elder clowns bring joy to nursing home residents

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By Shira Schoenberg
| The Boston Globe
Sometimes, life can be improved by a moment of joy. By a song, a gentle touch, a human connection. That’s what the nonprofit clown troupe Hearts and Noses brings to the children it visits in five hospitals around Boston and to older adults at Hebrew SeniorLife’s nursing homes in Dedham and Roslindale. One recent Friday, clowns Cheryl “Miss Millie” Lekousi and Kenny “Mr. Mensch” Raskin visited Art Smith, a retired jazz drummer, in Smith’s room at Hebrew SeniorLife.
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Why don’t Newton’s most disabled schoolchildren have an accessible playground?

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By Shira Schoenberg
| The Boston Globe
Toby Merrill’s 6-year-old son has a rare progressive disease and can’t walk independently or talk — but he loves to play outdoors. The boy attends Newton’s Reflections program, the city’s substantially separate classroom for children with profound special needs, housed at Williams Elementary School. At school, however, the boy can’t join other children on the play structure at recess because it isn’t fully handicapped accessible.
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