These days, 29-year-old Leah Hess has a part-time filing job in an office, spends her spare time taking aboriginal drumming lessons, and, according to her mother, Susan, is “an amazing young woman with a great sense of humour.”

But raising Leah, a developmentally delayed young woman who has also suffered from chronic depression and an anxiety disorder since childhood, was a long and difficult process, Susan said.

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