Name: WFAA Original: Texas A&M and the state's first college program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities
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Texas A&M opens state's first 4-year residential college program for students with intellectual, developmental disabilities

Aggie ACHIEVE is Texas' first inclusive, certificate-based, four-year education program for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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2019 Poultry Institute for Youth

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"... we can do all things through Christ, who strengthens us,” says Beatrice Lillie.

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