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Jeanne L. Repenning
Forsberg
Manager, fourstrands blog at http://fourstrands.blogspot.com/
Chicago, Illinois
USA
Jeanne
Lorraine Repenning Forsberg, oldest child of Charles Repenning, was born in 1951
in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She grew up in Holbrook, Arizona and Mountain View,
California along with her siblings and an astonishing array of wild animals,
bones, and paleontologists. She holds a BA in Behavioral Science from National
Lewis University and lives in Chicago with her husband of 36 years, their second
son, a parrot and a cockatiel. She is often asked to speak on various issues
surrounding people with cognitive disabilities, their rights and the challenges
of being a full-time caregiver of a person with profound disabilities. She also
leads a SPRED fellowship group for children with cognitive disabilities between
the ages of 6 and 10. She and her husband enjoy visits with their first son, his
wife and their three children as often as they can. Her husband teaches Special
Education in the Chicago Public Schools and frequently assures people that the
stories she tells about her father are true.
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