"Are you having a good morning today?" the principal of Millersville Elementary asked Shelby Capel as she put her arm around her.
"I'm good," the third-grader answered with a hug followed by another hug.
Dr. Strohecker refers to them as her kids, and please, she said, don't call them "autistic kids."
"They are kids with autism," she said. "They're children first."
While Dr. Strohecker's advocacy for her students has helped the majority read and do math at grade level...
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