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...

The NSW Minister for Disability Services, Paul Lynch, wrote yesterday to organisations interested in people with disabilities living in NSW:...

The Department of Immigration's response to applications from people with Down syndrome continues to draw media attention almost two wee...

Families' Weekend is an annual DS NSW event, alternating between metropolitan and rural venues, This year's Families' Weekend w...

It is a cliche that all families are not the same, even if their basic structures look similar. Some are different because of the very delib...

The rejection of the Moeller family's application for permanent resident status continues to make news both in Australia and around the...

Accessible Arts monthly newsletter, published online, is always a great source of information about arts events in NSW . The November editi...

Researchers at the University of Oxford continue to investigate the development and processes of language and reading in children with Down...

Anne Gleeson is a freelance writer and poet from Ballarat. She writes a very personal response in today's Melbourne Age , to the reje...

Twenty one extraordinary individuals were chosen from the arts, sports and business fields to support the 2008 Don't DIS my ABILITY cam...

Amidst the interest generated by the nomination of Sarah Palin as the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in the current US presidential ...

A statement has been prepared by clinicians and scientists involved in the care of people with Down syndrome, including input from members...

The Australian Department of Immigration's refusal of permanent residency to the family of Dr Bernhard Moeller, including his 13 year ol...