News - June 09

Early Development Seminars - Report

24 Jun 09
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Early Development Seminars - Report

Early this month, Ann Haig Wheeler returned from the US to deliver her age specific seminars - Early Development for Children with an Intellectual Disability - which took place in Mullingar and Dublin.

Parents and professionals formed the audiences to hear Ann give her unique style of professional but oh so practical advice. And the over-riding feedback was how useful and how ...

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Mini Marathon News

24 Jun 09
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Mini Marathon News

Tranistion year students from Loretto Abbey Dalkey undertook their first Ladies Mini Marathon in aid of Down Syndrome Centre this year.

Their teacher, Jane Coyne, developed a training schedule for the 14 girls which involved starting out from the school and running to the nearest DART station in week one. This extended to the next station and the next until ...

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35K Raised - Buy My Dress a Huge Success!!!!

24 Jun 09
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35K Raised - Buy My Dress a Huge Success!!!!

Madness and mayhem descended on the Royal College of Physicians on the 11th  June even before the 10.00 o'clock start of Buy My Dress when early customers wanted a sneak preview.

Once the doors officially opened we had close on 300 people through in the first 2.5 hours when dedicated followers of fashion queued outside the changing ...

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Health Supplement Article on Services

2 Jun 09
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Health Supplement Article on Services Nikki & Tim Curran from Kildare - Picture courtesy Irish Times 

 

After hearing from a parent of a eight week old child with Down syndrome who had been turned away from her local service provider because they had no 'places to offer', we began researching what levels of care are available to parents in different parts of the country.

 

The results are ...
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