FEATURE: Spotlighting Spain's first legislator with Down's syndrome

At a plenary session of the parliament in Spain's Valencia Province, Maria del Mar Galceran Gadea made the plea that people such as herself with Down's syndrome be given the chance to be full-fledged, contributing members of society.In September 2023, Mar (which means Sea, the name she is called by her parents) became Spain's first parliamentarian with Down's syndrome -- 26 years after toiling in local government to bring about change on welfare and other social issues.The same year in November, she took questions at a plenary session for the first time, stressing that people often labeled …READ FULL ARTICLE