Without Restraint: How Skiing Saved My Son’s Life

Rob DeLena and Ryan DeLena

Wednesday, November 9th, 7pm

the Goodnow Library’s Community Room

Join us to welcome local resident Rob DeLena and his son, Ryan, as they share stories and discuss their book, Without Restraint: How Skiing Saved My Son’s Life. Overloaded with neuropsych evaluations and testing to identify his atypical behaviors and interests, Ryan was bounced between educational programs and schools. But, due to an impulsive decision to take Ryan skiing, Rob and his wife Mary Beth discovered a different child than the version experts were so sure about. They began to question the path laid for their son by the professionals paid to judge him. Together they fought the medical and educational complexes over Ryan’s care and school placement, and instead fostered the freedom Ryan needed to pursue his dream of becoming a professional ski mountaineer.

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