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THE POWER OF A FRIEND

When senior behaviour support practitioner Ashley, or Ash for short, met 26-year-old Jordan, he had just one question in mind: “What can we do to make his life a little bit better?” The answer, as it turns out, was to help make him smile and giggle.

Jordan, who has a multiple diagnosis and is missing the part of his brain that ensures both sides of it can communicate, had proven himself a fighter from infancy, when his early health issues suggested a lifespan of six months.

He proved them wrong, including those

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