Local girl doesn't let disability define her

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Quote :: STOUTSVILLE - Lisa and Duane Wilkins have always known their daughter Sarah was exceptional.

Now, everyone else knows it too.

Sarah is one of three students in the state and one of 28 students nationwide being honored by the Council for Exceptional Children at its annual conference in Boston next month.

Each year, CEC, the nation's leading association for special educators, recognizes a crop of extraordinary children who have excelled despite having a disability.
Sarah, an eighth-grader and honor-roll student at McDowell Exchange School in Circleville, has Down syndrome...