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Lego unveils its first disabled figure

Advocacy, Education, In the Media

by Ivana Kottasova | money.cnn.com

After decades of building pirate ships, race cars and haunted castles, Lego has come up with something new: a wheelchair.

The Danish toymaker has unveiled its first ever disabled minifigure on Thursday. The figure of a hat-wearing boy in a wheelchair was first spotted at the Nuremberg international toy fair in Germany and featured on fan blogs.

The company later confirmed the tiny wheelchair will be part of a new Lego CITY set that will come out in June.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/28/news/companies/lego-wheelchair-minifigure/

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Families raising children with Down syndrome find local, national support

Advocacy, Education, Health, In the Media

by Kara Bettis | http://newbostonpost.com

BOSTON – When Carl and Julie Stone discovered four years ago that their third child, Josiah, would be born with trisomy 21, or Down syndrome, they didn’t blink.

“It didn’t frighten us, it didn’t scare us, it didn’t make us sad,” Stone said. “We simply wanted to spend the last 20 weeks of the pregnancy doing everything we could to give this child every possibility to succeed.”

The Carver resident’s story is not unusual. But it isn’t common, either. Many expecting families who discover the child might be born with trisomy 21, a form of Down syndrome that comes from having an extra chromosome, don’t know where to turn, or what kind of life to expect for their baby.

http://newbostonpost.com/2016/01/22/families-raising-down-syndrome-children-find-local-national-support/

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TV Show Featuring Young Adults With Down Syndrome To Return

Advocacy, Education, In the Media

by Shaun Heasley | disabilityscoop.com

More episodes are on the way for a new television show focusing on the lives of young adults with Down syndrome.

A&E Network said it has renewed “Born This Way” for a second season.

The show, which debuted in December, follows seven young adults with the chromosomal disorder and their families in Southern California.

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/01/12/tv-down-syndrome-return/21757/

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Special Ed Testing Accommodations Backfire

Education, In the Media

by Laurie Udesky, The Hechinger Report | disabilityscoop.com

Last spring, Julia Kim’s students with disabilities at Fairmount Elementary in San Francisco were ready to take a new standardized test. They were excited that it had been built especially for them.

In past years, students with visual perception disorders had test questions read out loud. This time, the students sat in front of their computers awaiting the new technology designed to help them complete the test on their own for the first time.

But as soon as the first question appeared, students complained that the print was too small.

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/01/12/special-ed-testing-backfire/21760/

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First clinical trial for vaccine targeting Alzheimer’s in people with Down’s syndrome

Health, In the Media

by Nicholas Jackson | drugtargetreview.com

Plans for the world’s first clinical trial for a vaccine targeting Alzheimer’s disease-like characteristics in those with Down’s syndrome have been announced. The study will test AC Immune’s vaccine ACI-24 and is being conducted in collaboration with the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) Down’s Syndrome Research and Treatment Center. Funding is provided by a significant grant from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and an additional grant from the LuMind Research Down’s Syndrome Foundation. This is the first public/private collaboration for a clinical trial in the field of Down’s syndrome.

http://www.drugtargetreview.com/8541/content-type/industry-news/vaccine-targeting-alzheimers-in-people-with-down-syndrome/#.Vo6bUU-ng2Y.facebook

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