World Down Syndrome Day 2014: Do we really need awareness days?
‘There’s an awareness day for everything nowadays’ the rather jaded GP muttered in my direction recently, in a tone that hinted ‘leave me out of it please.’ ‘It’s awareness day …
Category: Downs Syndrome
The Disability Abortion Lie – when choice seems like no choice
It’s easy to assume that the moral dilemma of whether to abort your unborn baby that you’ve learned has a disability, is confined to a shouty debate between pro-choicers on …
SNJ’s #Blogchat with Hayley from DownsSideUp!
Ain’t technology grand? Just before Christmas Hayley from DownsSideUp and, as you know, a Special Needs Jungle columnist, “got together” over Skype for a chat about SEN, parenting and why …
Exposing quotes that reinforce Down’s syndrome myths: The Truth
Posters and leaflets dispelling common myths and setting out facts about Down’s syndrome are often created wonderfully by charities to distribute to new families. So rather than reinventing the wheel, …