Interest is growing locally in ways in which people with disabilities can be supported while making real choices about their own lives - we ...

In the same week that reporting of a small increase in the numbers of babies born with Down syndrome in the UK is being debated ( click here...

A US study of a potential prenatal treatment of a mouse model for Down syndrome , aimed at promoting neuronal development, is being widely r...

The Minister for Immigration, Senator Chris Evans , has issued three statements in relation to the Moeller family's approval for perman...

Count Us In by Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz, Harcourt Books, 2007 . The groundbreaking, stereotype-changing book, Count us In was o...

The family of Dr Bernhard Moeller (whose son, Lukas has Down syndrome) has been granted permanent resident status in Australia. The decision...

At our recent seminar for disability services professionals in Queanbeyan, a speech pathologist who was in the audience told us about this e...

It is estimated that two babies are born each day in the UK. In response to statistics showing a rise in the number of babies born with Down...

The latest issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine Online has a Short Report on a Spanish research study demonstrating that a 12...

The Disability Confidence website was launched this week, by Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities, Bill Shorten . The new si...

We're introducing a little order into this blog, by offering a post every Thursday featuring an item (or maybe a few) from the DS NSW li...

This year's weekend camp was held at a new venue, Mowbray Park Farmstay at Picton. There was more to do than there was time for, and ev...

Jan Gothard and Charlie Fox are parents, historians and members of Down Syndrome Western Australia. Charlie Fox has written extensively ab...

MUSEC is the Macquarie University Special Education Centre . MUSEC Briefings is series of concise (single page) briefing papers, each ev...

On comparing ..... (Jennfier Groneberg, Pinwheels ) Half the Story .... (Dave Hingsburger, Chewing the Fat ) These two blogs are amongst o...

Dr Julian Trollor will take up the first Chair of Intellectual Disability Mental Health at the University of NSW in February 2009 as Ass...

A report from South Bend, Indiana includes video of 25 year old Robbie Rist , who has Down syndrome, making his first skydive, from 13,000 f...

Canberra Times report, Friday 14th November: The Federal government has overturned a decision to deny permanent residency to a British midw...

The 4 th International Down Syndrome Swimming Championships will be held in Albufeira , Portugal , from 27 November - 4 December 2008 . Th...

T he Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released a new report today: Disability in Australia: intellectual disability People w...