The Swish Mini Phone is designed for persons with Down Syndrome.

The Swish Mini Phone is the smallest SOS mobile phone in the world! It transmits on a GSM network. There is an SOS function and two speed dial numbers. Simply press 1 or 2 to get straight through to your loved one.

The Swish Mini Phone will switch over ...

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Barbara Hallahan - Speech & Language Pathologist - will be doing weekly small group speech therapy in the Donnycarney Community and Youth Centre (located at Collins Avenue and Malahide Road) every Saturday beginning 28th January.  There is room for a few 5 to 8 year olds in the 2 and 3 o'clock sessions.  She will have a wonderful man named Stephen Kelly ...

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Laughternoon 2011 - Another Successful Lunch in aid of Down Syndrome Centre

We would just like to express our thanks to all our guests and sponsors of our annual fundraising Christmas Ladies Lunch, Laughternoon on Friday 16th December last.   Again it was a wonderful success and a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon.  Looking forward to seeing you all in December again.

 

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We have been nominated by My Kids Time for Charity of the year and we need as many votes as we can, please click on the link below to vote for Down Syndrome Centre.  http://www.mykidstime.ie/d/form/vote-2012-mykidstime-charity-year

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It’s that time of year again folks when all of us here in Down Syndrome Centre are gearing up in preparation for our annual Christmas fundraising lunch, Laughternoon.

As usual we’ll be in the Four Seasons Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, on Friday 16th December.

Tickets cost €125 per person. Tables of ten or twelve can be accommodated.

The ...

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Jackie O’Donohoe (RIP) was a wonderful supporter of this charity since it’s infancy. She wrote the book It’s Me! It’s Me! in 2005, and donated all royalties from it to Down Syndrome Centre. It tells a lively colourful story about a little girl full of sunshine learning to make friends in school.

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This is a follow on from the highly successful Early Intervention for Babies Workshop, which addresses the next stage of development and how to support the child into ‘toddlerhood’.

This workshop will be facilitated by two of our professional website advisors, Occupational Therapist Ailish Kavanagh and Speech and Language Therapist Marinet van Vuren.  And will take place in a Steiner ...

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PLEASE NOTE: THIS PARENTS EVENING HAS HAD TO BE POSTPONED AND WILL NOT TAKE PLACE ON WEDNESDAY 5TH OCT

WE ARE HOPING TO RUN IT IN NOVEMBER INSTEAD - STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER DETAILS

TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST PLEASE EMAIL INFO@DOWNSYNDROMECENTRE.IE

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Down Syndrome Centre is delighted to announce the speakers who will be presenting at our next General ...

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We wish to advise to all our supporters that our former CEO, Sheila Campbell, of Campbell PR has left Down Syndrome Centre.

We all would like to thank her for all her great efforts and hard work over the last number of years. And wish her all the best in her future career. Continue reading

Plese spare us a few minutes to complete the survey below, we would greatly appreciate your feedback.

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The next Dining to Donate evening will take place in Alexis, Dunlaoghaire, on Monday 29th August.

Once again, guests will be treated to a night of fabulous food and entertainment courtesy of chanteuse Derby Browne, renowned for her jazz and French café music.

For €25 a head (€5.00 of which comes directly to DSC), guests will enjoy a sumptous ...

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Among the many people who were in contact with us after the launch of the I'm Able 2 Model agency -  launched on World Down Syndrome Day (March 21st) - were UK magazine Take A Break.

They were interested in a feature on I'm Able 2 Model for the magazine and here is the piece which appeared in last month ...

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Like the population at large, people with learning disabilities are living longer, and therefore an increasing number are developing dementia. Service providers, planners, doctors, social workers, carers and direct support staff need to be equipped with relevant knowledge prior to the onset of dementia, so that they can devise appropriate therapeutic interventions and coping strategies, including health and medication management ... Continue reading

Many parents of children with special needs in Ireland will already know about this demonstration organised by The Special Needs Parents Association, which is planned to take place outside the Dáil on Wednesday 13th July at 3pm. But for those of you who are short on the details, here is everything you need to know:

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The next Early Intervention for Babies Workshop, will take place on Saturday, Aug 20th 2011. This workshop is hosted by our website advisor, Speech and Language Therapist, Marinet Van Vuren, together with Chartered Paediatric Physiotherapist, Gloria Vaughan.

The workshop is limited to 12 sets of parents and the therapists will divide the three hour Saturday morning session between them to ... Continue reading

The second of our New Parent Evenings of 2011 takes place at 7.30pm on Tuesday 9th August in the Shelbourne Hotel, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2.
Our Down Syndrome Liaison Nurse, Angela O'Riordan will present to new parents.

There is no charge for attendance at these meetings which are organised to welcome parents of new babies with ... Continue reading

Down Syndrome Centre’s Dining to Donate initiative – which sees the charity link up with a number of popular restaurants and chanteuse, Derby Browne, renowned for her jazz and French café music - commences with an evening in Bijou, Rathgar on Monday 18th July.

For €30 a head (€7.50 of which goes directly to DSC), the evening will begin with ...

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When it comes to buying special paediatric shoes for a child with Down syndrome we know that large figures and euros will spring to mind.

So we were delighted to be contacted to day by a physiotherapist - Asia Pasinska who works in Early Intervention services in Limerick. She came across a shoe shop which was closing down and recognised these ...

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Can you believe it's over!!!

What a great day we all had on Saturday - in all locations. The people queued. The doors opened, the rails and changing-rooms were stormed and then, music to our ears, the tills began to ring.

And they rang so much that we raised a total of €94,000 from this year's Buy My ...

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Here in the office we're surrounded by rails and rails of dresses ahead of this Saturday's Buy My Dress sales. A dress in every colour, every shape and size is there waiting for a new home - maybe even yours?

Doors open this Saturday at the eight Buy My Dress events countrywide from 10 - 6pm. No admission charge this ...

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