A Mother's Disability-Verbal Communication

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A mother could feel her son acting differently whenever her wheelchair-bound son's nurse would come around him. She used her mother's instinct to figure out a way to find out the truth. Her 12-year-old son's only way to communicate was through text messages. She could tell through the change in his behavior when the nurse was near him that something was wrong, even though he could not come out and tell her. The mother used a recording device and a horn on her son's wheelchair to see what was upsetting him, according to KVUE. The truth was revealed when the child's caretaker, Ben Olivier, came to to remove and clean the child's trachea tube, which he needs to breathe. Police reported the boy is seen trying to avoid the 39-year-old nurse

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