If you think this was a kindly way to educate someone (who is not yet Catholic) about the Catholic faith, then I too, have a clue for you....
As I said, the practices of my future parish as they have been given to me say that children must be baptized and should be educated in the sacraments and aware of the meaning before they participate.
But thank you for being so kind and helpful.
Sorry for burning your tender buds with my inflammatory nukulur rhetoric. I'm from Texas.
In my opinion, anyone so ignorant as to deny Holy Communion to someone with Down Syndrome should be run out of Church on a rail [see, O Brother Where Art Thou?]. Anyone so ignorant as to agree that such denial is a good idea should be submitted to immediate, radical and severe clue insertion.