CHRISTMAS WONDER

With another Christmas season fast approaching, we have been busy working with illustrator, Steve Simpson to bring you a new range of Down Syndrome Centre Christmas cards, which we have entitled "Wonder".

As always, our unique cards are Irish designed and printed - especially important in these recessionary times - and comprise a range of four beautiful images which perfectly ...

Since we posted the item on the "lose the wheels" training programme and Buddy Bikes, we have a had a few other company's contact to let us know about other products that have been designed to improve mobility options for children and people with disability.

US company Power Pumper, based in Oregon, are the inventors of a four wheel ...

Back in 2006, a video captured on a mobile phone, showing schoolboys in a Turin classroom making fun of a teenage boy with Down syndrome appeared on Google Video Italia. It appeared for a few hours only before Google administrators were alerted and took it down but the ensuing complaints by Vividown - an Italian Down syndrome advocacy group - and the ...

Just across the border in Northern Ireland, the work of the organsition Positive Futures is the feature of this week's World View. Positive Futures is a charity set up in 1995 to support people with intellectual disabilites and those who care for them.

One of their programmes is the Adult Placement service. This service asks volunteers to open their ...

What lengths would you go to for your child?

If you're a parent, you'll already have some concept of what it is to put your child's wants and needs before your own. Your life is no longer your own. The way you live it is no longer yours to decide and the patterns of your former life ...