"But when he came back home I believe there was a time when Mom and Dad talked to him, not knowing really if he understood, but just telling him that “We didn’t know. We didn’t know what was happening, we didn’t know how sad you were We didn’t know what was going on and we will never, ever send you away again.” And he just began—I think at that point he began to heal."

Vicki Schad’s brother Bobby was always “special”, but until his family made the decision to send him to Pineland, Maine’s large institution for people with developmental disabilities, they didn’t know how vulnerable his differences would make him.

Find a full transcript of this podcast here: https://maineddc.org/transcript-vicki-schad