My in-laws now live in Australia. Have done for a few years in fact. We have been very fortunate in being able to take our family “down-under” on a couple of occasions to go and see them. We even looked into emigrating to join them there. But that’s a post for another [...]
Disability Solutions is the free publication (with some very interesting articles) of Creating Solutions, a project of The San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds. It is an online publication for families (and others) interested in Down syndrome especially but also other developmental disabilities, and in particular in the dual diagnosis of Down [...]
I have just taken out a subscription to Disabilty Now.
Disability Now claims to be the UK’s biggest selling disability related newspaper. Published by Scope on a fortnightly basis and with an associated website it covers the latest news stories, bring comment from the UK’s most influential disabled campaigners, offers guides to the latest [...]
Back in 2005 we were contacted by Richard Bailey, a photographer and father of a girl with Down Syndrome. We first met Richard when we had taken our son to attend a week long speech therapy course run by Symbol UK. He was putting together a calender, for the Down Syndrome Association [...]
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I was asked to review the third edition of Down Syndrome – An Introduction for Parents and Carers by the publishers, Souvenir Press, in December 2008. Not something I have previously been approached to do but I’m happy to give it a go.
Written by Cliff Cunningham, Visiting Professor of Applied [...]
American friends of ours (hi Irene & Sam), who have a son with Down’s Syndrome, suggested I take a look at a website by another young man with Down’s Syndrome who was promoting a book he has written on American history. He had invited them to become “friends” with him on Facebook.
The [...]
Able Magazine is a lifestyle magazine for disabled people in the UK.
Published every two months, Able is a lively, full colour publication, which focuses on what people can do, not what they can’t. Their experienced team of professional journalists (which includes wheelchair users) regularly checks out different sporting and leisure opportunities and [...]