Riverbend Down Syndrome Parent Support GroupRiverbend Down Syndrome Parent Support Group Web SiteThe False Motor Debility in Children with Mental Retardation- November 15, 2007 This text started from the observation of a false motor debility in Downs where it exists mental retardation not referable to previous risk factors outside the chromosomal anomaly. Such motor debility always improves, in a short time (within 3-6 months), following a drug therapy that acts on modulation of stress reactions. Excluding the hypothesis of a vicarious substitution by other brain areas, the only possible explanation is that we are dealing with a dysfunctionality of the cells of the...http://www.altonweb.com/cs/downsyndrome/falsemotor.html Down's Syndrome and Communication with Others: A Case Study- November 15, 2007 As seen in people with developmental disabilities, interpersonal communications often differ from those of their "normal" counterparts, and it has been reported that children with Down's syndrome typically have difficulties interacting with peers (Guralnick, 2002). However, much of the research on language and communications in people with Down's syndrome have focussed on young people, especially youth and children. Very few studies have focussed on communications in adults with Down's...http://www.altonweb.com/cs/downsyndrome/channe.html Children with Down Syndrome and the Foreign Language: A Concrete Possibility- November 14, 2007 In this second chapter I will deal with bilingualism as a situation experienced by children with Down syndrome. The analysis aims at demonstrating that the double exposure of a child to two different languages is not only a prerogative of typically developing children but also, surely with some slight differences worthy to be mentioned, a situation lived in several families with a trisomic child. As I am perfectly aware of the controversy surrounding bilingual education even when typically...http://www.altonweb.com/cs/downsyndrome/tommasi.html PUNS Is No Joke: What Is It Why Should the Down Syndrome Community Care- November 8, 2007 PUNS (Prioritization of Urgency of Need for Services) is a legislatively mandated database of all people with developmental disabilities in Illinois, of any age, who have unmet needs for services now or in the next 5 years. It is imperative that every single person with a developmental disability at any age stands up to be counted with PUNS.http://www.altonweb.com/cs/downsyndrome/oct07.html#puns I Can't Talk With My Mouth Full Or... "The Confessions of a Home-Schooling Mom Who Eats Her Words"- November 8, 2007 I am a home-schooling mom. We are a home-schooling family. Even now, mid way through year number two of this journey those words still get hitched in my throat when I profess it. "Why" you ask. As you may know, home-schooling is very common nowadays and especially in the state of Washington, where by some accounts, there are upwards of 20,000 students learning at home. Washington's also one of the first states in the nation to legally support home-schooling (or home-learning as I like to call...http://www.altonweb.com/cs/downsyndrome/oct07.html#mclaughlin Making the Grade- November 8, 2007 Michael Berube Blog. When Jamie entered kindergarten nine years ago, my wife Janet and I worried that he wouldn't be ready. Our concerns were not unusual-but Jamie was: he would be the only child with Down syndrome in Westview Elementary. He was assigned a paraprofessional and "pullout" sessions for occupational and speech therapy: standard fare, these days, for "special needs" children of all kinds. But at the age of six, Jamie wasn't very verbal, and we had no idea how he'd adjust to a real...http://www.altonweb.com/cs/downsyndrome/oct07.html#berube |