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Lego unveils its first disabled figure
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 […]
Families raising children with Down syndrome find local, national support
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 […]
TV Show Featuring Young Adults With Down Syndrome To Return
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. […]
Special Ed Testing Accommodations Backfire
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 […]
First clinical trial for vaccine targeting Alzheimer’s in people with Down’s syndrome
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 […]
Harvard EdCast: The Evolution of Disabilities Education
By Matt Weber | gse.harvard.edu In 1975, public schools in the United States accommodated only 1 out of 5 children with disabilities. Many states had laws that explicitly excluded children with disabilities — including children who were deaf or blind, children who had been labeled “mentally retarded,” and children suffering from certain types of mental illness — from […]
ESEA Reauthorization: The Every Student Succeeds Act Explained
By Alyson Klein | edweek.com The newest proposed version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—dubbed the Every Student Succeeds Act—has officially been released. Votes in both chambers of Congress are expected over the next couple weeks. If all goes as planned, the bill will reach President Barack Obama’s desk by the end of the year—and he’s […]
New TV Series Features Young Adults With Down Syndrome
by Shaun Heasley | Disabilityscoop.com The production company behind “Keeping up with the Kardashians” and other reality television staples will debut a new documentary series following young adults with Down syndrome. The six-episode series “Born This Way” will air on A&E Network starting Dec. 8 at 10 p.m. ET. For the show, cameras followed seven Southern California […]
Register Now for the MDSC 11th Annual Educators Forum
By MDSC.org SAVE THE DATE! 11th Annual Educators Forum Wednesday, November 18, 2015 College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA Register Here!* Join hundreds of educators each fall at the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress’ Annual Educators Forum, where you will be treated to a full day of presentations by experts in the field of […]