# Unsilenced: One Teacher’s Personal Story of Battles and Breakthroughs at Belchertown

By [Bryce Edwards](/content/author/bryceedwards/index.html)• December 2, 2021

What was life like at Belchertown—a bleak institution for people with disabilities—and how did one young teacher make a difference? Find out in this candid and personal coffee chat with Dr. Howard Shane, author of the spellbinding new memoir Unsilenced.