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Parents create 'university of life' for non-verbal daughter
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- Lillian Rowsell's parents set up a learning space in her grandfather's unused flat.
- "All her friends were going to uni, so we thought: 'Well, let's make our own university," Lillian's mother, Andrea Rowsell, said.
- "We called it university of life [UOL]."
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Lillian Rowsell's parents set up a learning space in her grandfather's unused flat. They call it the university of life. (ABC News: Wiriya Sati)
Link copied Share Share article When Lillian Rowsell was in her final year of school and unable to continue formal education, her parents started looking for a creative solution to bring all her sources of support together.
"All her friends were going to uni, so we thought: 'Well, let's make our own university," Lillian's mother, Andrea Rowsell, said.
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