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Our conversations about disability are often framed like this: Disability is the barrier and we’re searching for a way around it. But what if you could knock down that barrier entirely? Would you?
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At age 9, Delaney Van Riper felt bionic in leg braces, pictured here with her mother, Becky. (Courtesy of Delaney Van Riper)

Our conversations about disability are often framed like this: Disability is the barrier and we’re searching for a way around it.

But what if you could knock down that barrier entirely? Would you?

And what does it mean to take away a disability? As reporter Margaret Katcher tells us, a family from Sacramento is grappling with exactly that question.

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