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Friday 29 August 2014

Weekend reading and viewing: 30th - 31st August 2014

Jamie Edgin and Fabian Fernandez, New York Times, 28th August 2014
... Mr. Dawkins’s argument is flawed. Not because his moral reasoning is wrong, necessarily (that is a question for another day), but because his understanding of the facts is mistaken. Recent research indicates that individuals with Down syndrome can experience more happiness and potential for success than Mr. Dawkins seems to appreciate ...

An Awesome Life Lesson From My Son With Down Syndrome: Friends and New Beginnings
John Simmons, Huffington Post (The Blog), 26th August 2014
... Perhaps I would have no more anxieties with new beginnings than my son experiences, if I looked at them in the same light that he does. If I loved people like Jack does; if I valued friendship more than anything else someone could give me; if my ventures were solidly based on people and relationships rather than things; new beginnings, for me, would be different ...

Jisun Lee, Kimchi Latkes, 22nd August 2014
It is hard sometimes when it feels like the world is telling you that your kid is more wrong than right, not to let some of it seep in. 


If you only know one thing about Down syndrome, know this 
Sipping Lemonade, 21st Auust 2014
“You know, Kate and me love rolling around on the ground in circles together. Kate is really good at rolling. And you know how my other sisters are scared to hide under the blankets and play tent? Well, Kate is never scared to hide under the blankets.” I smiled at the sweet things 5-year-olds value about their sisters.

Then he said, “Down syndrome makes her really good at some things” ...

Robert Gebelhoff, Milwaukee Wisconsin Sentinel Journal, 21st August 2014
Eight students with cognitive disabilities had the chance Thursday afternoon to do something few of their peers get to do: move into a college dorm.

That's because Concordia University Wisconsin, in partnership with Bethesda College of Applied Learning, will be housing the students through a new program aimed at developing independent living among adults with intellectual disabilities ...


Three-year-old Alice to star in Down's syndrome film after Plymouth student mum's photography project
Plymouth Herald, 21st August 2014
A mum has won an international award for telling the story of her relationship with her Down's syndrome daughter through photographs ... She embarked on the project after struggling to come to terms with the fact her daughter, Alice, was born with Down’s syndrome ...

Classic

On The Dignity of Risk
A Walk on the Happy Side, 20th January 2009
... Over protection can keep people from becoming all they could become.

Many of our best achievements came the hard way: We took risks, fell flat, suffered, picked ourselves up, and tried again. Sometimes we made it and sometimes we did not. Even so, we were given the chance to try. Persons with special needs need these chances, too ...

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