Downs Syndrome & other Developmental Disabilities

This page gives links to websites about organisations, books and other resources useful to parents of children and adults who have Down's Syndrome or similar disabilities which can help them overcome the obstacles they face in education, social life, and other aspects of life, and to overcome or destroy the physical and social barriers mentioned above.

People with Downs Syndrome are all unique individuals. They have some things in common, but they all have different abilities and personalities as you can see from the picture above.

Here are the main UK webpages for Downs Syndrome:

This is a list of some English Family Home Pages of children and adults with Downs Syndrome.

Here are some useful addresses , mainly in the UK including some websites.

Here are some of my poems,and essays about Down's Syndrome and some books and quotes

(The article was written in response to the case of Dr Leonard Arthur, who when our daughter Karen was a year old, withheld food from another baby with Downs Syndrome, who subsequently died. He was tried for murder and acquitted . This is Gordon's response)

Here is a link to a site which helps to explain why people with disabilities today still face prejudice and physical and social barriers because of the way people have been treated in the past. In the past disabled people have often been treated cruelly and been called ugly names, although there are many positive things to say about the past as well. This site carries a health warning as parts of it might upset parents-to-be or parents of very young disabled children. I wanted to write a history of Downs Syndrome from Ancient times to the present, but since there is very little about Downs Syndrome before the 19th century it is instead a general history of disability, particularly learning/developmental/mental disability.

And here are some international sites