Yes, you could do it
Ellen Stumbo, Finding Beauty in My Brokenness, 7th October 2013
I cannot count how many times I’ve heard people say, “I could never do it,” when referring to raising children with disabilities. It’s funny, because they often say this when referencing my life, as if my children were difficult, too much work – and although I know full well they don’t mean it – it suggests my children are less lovable. But here is the thing: Yes, you could do it! ...
How a Magazine Article Convinced a Former Ballet Dancer to Teach People With Down Syndrome
Megan Griffo, The Mighty, 8th Ocotber 2014
Colleen Perry was reading a People magazine article in February 2009 when a chill shot up and down her spine and she decided to change her life’s course. The piece discussed an adaptive dance program within Boston Ballet designed for people Down syndrome and autism. Perry, a former ballet dancer and marriage/family therapist based in Los Angeles, heard a little voice in her head as she read ...
Choosing Family: a mother’s reflection on having more children after her first baby was born with Down syndrome
Guest post, Mumma Love, 4th October 2014
... The therapy wheel has definitely taken a beating and the mother guilt is piling up nicely beside my bed. As life with three small children barrels us along there is never enough time. As I lose it again and again about speech homework not done, PT practice forgotten, the research I need to do on supplementation or the lack of one on one time for the other two, my husband brings me back to earth ...
To Any Parent Nervous About Having a Baby With Down Syndrome, This Is for You
Allies should be strengthening the voice of people with disability by speaking up alongside us, not simulating disability in a tokenistic fashion and raising money for charities, writes Stella Young ...Colleen Perry was reading a People magazine article in February 2009 when a chill shot up and down her spine and she decided to change her life’s course. The piece discussed an adaptive dance program within Boston Ballet designed for people Down syndrome and autism. Perry, a former ballet dancer and marriage/family therapist based in Los Angeles, heard a little voice in her head as she read ...
Choosing Family: a mother’s reflection on having more children after her first baby was born with Down syndrome
Guest post, Mumma Love, 4th October 2014
... The therapy wheel has definitely taken a beating and the mother guilt is piling up nicely beside my bed. As life with three small children barrels us along there is never enough time. As I lose it again and again about speech homework not done, PT practice forgotten, the research I need to do on supplementation or the lack of one on one time for the other two, my husband brings me back to earth ...
To Any Parent Nervous About Having a Baby With Down Syndrome, This Is for You
Melissa McGlensey, The Mighty, 4th October 2014
Carolyn McDiarmid, 44, from Victoria, Australia, grew up across the street from the family of a little girl with Down syndrome. She later had a close friend in nursing school in Melbourne who had a child, named Harvey, with an extra chromosome. None of this, however, prepared her for the shock of finding out that the child she was carrying also had Down syndrome ...
A reading and language intervention for children with Down syndrome
Carolyn McDiarmid, 44, from Victoria, Australia, grew up across the street from the family of a little girl with Down syndrome. She later had a close friend in nursing school in Melbourne who had a child, named Harvey, with an extra chromosome. None of this, however, prepared her for the shock of finding out that the child she was carrying also had Down syndrome ...
A reading and language intervention for children with Down syndrome
Down Syndrome Education International, 2nd October 2014
News, insights and tips about DSE's reading and language intervention (RLI) - recording of the webinar held on 2nd October 2014. Presentation slides are available as a.pdf file.
Disability simulations should be left in the 90s
News, insights and tips about DSE's reading and language intervention (RLI) - recording of the webinar held on 2nd October 2014. Presentation slides are available as a.pdf file.
Disability simulations should be left in the 90s
Stella Young, The Drum, 25th September 2014
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