Living with Down Syndrome PDF Print E-mail

Traditionally, companies looked at people with Down Syndrome as inferior, ignoring their human dignity. Understanding the community has grown to reach is currently acceptable treatment of the problem (in some societies).

Children and their families have the opportunity to receive support and advice from the time it is diagnosed. As can be diagnosed prenatally by amniocentesis, this support may be really early.

The newborn is primarily a child with emotional needs and emotional and any other special needs. Progress in the field of early learning, teaching and research in genetics are constant, we must strive to stay up to date in seeking career guidance associations and institutions.



Children with Down syndrome can achieve their full potential and continue learning the same steps of development as other children, but make it more slowly. Depend fundamentally on a strong family that gives them love and belonging, and support professionals who believe in them first as "persons" and then "People with Down Syndrome."

Every life is a miracle and the parents are the first to be strongly believe in the possibilities of this little newborn. Accept that our son had not expected SISO requires time, patience and struggle. Growth and development potential of each person and depends exclusively from the start of their parents.
We know that there are constraints and there will be no one today can predict with certainty. We owe the future to build each day, giving a home to fully accept what they are.

While heredity plays a role, any function of the body is so subject to environmental influence, education, and intellectual function. An altered genetic background, with a constant and enriching, is overcome. Nobody is able to say to what cognitive level can advance and get a child with Down Syndrome. The drive, commitment and enthusiasm of many parents has been breaking down walls in the advancement of people with cognitive impairment Down's syndrome.


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