21 links for Down Syndrome Awareness Week 2012 (1)

It is Down Syndrome Awareness Week here in Australia 14th - 21st October 2012.  We kicked off in NSW with the first of our Buddy Walk events in Sydney yesterday, and  Buddy Walks in Wagga Wagga, the Illawarra and Newcastle will be held next Sunday, 21st October.

Here on Keeping Up with Down Syndrome we plan one DS Awareness Week post each day, each focussing on 3 links of interest to people with Down syndrome and those who care from them, so that we accumulate 21 'Awareness Week' links.

Here is our first set of three links:

• We've been saving the link to Perfect  to lead off.  It is a candid family story about coming to terms with raising a child with Down syndrome ... there was a time when Heath White chased perfection. E:60's Tom Rinaldi tells the story of a how the birth of a girl with Down syndrome led to the re-birth of a man who thought he had everything, until he discovered the joy of pushing Paisley.

• Angela Lombardo, Coordinator of the Down Syndrome Program at Boston Children's Hospital, is posting a thoughtful and thought-provoking message each day throughout October (which is claimed as Down Syndrome Awareness Month in the US) - you will find them here, headed Post # (1 - 31) for National Down Syndrome Awareness Month, accompanied by a series of photos. And of course you can share them as you wish.
• One of our all-time favourite 'classics' in the Down syndrome canon is Dennis McGuire's much loved If people with Down syndrome ruled the world, originally delivered as an address to the Annual Convention of the (US) National Down Syndrome Congress in 2005 ... it deserves a place in every year's celebration.

All 21 links for Down Syndrome Awareness Week 2012 posts

If you would care to share a favourite photo of the person with Down syndrome that you love and care for in these posts, you are very welcome to email it to us at blogeditor@dsansw.org.au