Publications for professionals and students
General
- What is Down's Syndrome? Define Down's syndrome
- Information for parents, carers, professionals and students.
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- Ages and Stages of Down's Syndrome
- General information about Down's syndrome.
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Health
- Sexual Health and Relationships: A Review of Resources for People with Learning Disabilities
- This guide is intended for professionals who work directly with people with learning disabilities, or with parents/carers, or other professionals from the health, education, social work and voluntary sectors. It is a collection of reviews of sexual health and relationships resources, with review comments gathered from a wide range of practitioners including teachers, community learning disability nurses, clinical psychologists, health promotion specialists, other health professionals and support and voluntary organisations.
- For a copy of this publication please visit the PHIS website.
- Recommendations for telling parents that their baby has Down's Syndrome
- How to break the news to new parents.
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- Basic Medical Surveillance Define medical surveillance Essentials
- Adapted draft recommendations of the Down's Syndrome Medical Interest Group.
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- Puberty define Puberty Fact Sheet
- How to prepare for talking to children and young people about the changes associated with growing up.
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- Leaving School Fact Sheet
- How to plan for a person with Down's syndrome leaving school.
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- Coping with Loss Fact Sheet
- How to support a person with Down's syndrome through their grief.
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- Depression define Depression Fact Sheet
- Information about depression, the signs to look out for and where to get help.
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Dementia
- Keep Talking about Dementia Define Dementia
- Information for older siblings Define Sibling and professionals.
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- It's Your Move - Down's Syndrome and Dementia
- Health information for GPs.
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- Food for Thought
- Dementia and eating.
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Teaching Materials and Education
- Down's Syndrome Scotland's position on Education for Children with Down's syndrome
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- Developing Early Skills
- This booklet gives information about early years education for children with Down's syndrome. The main focus is on how to teach early skills in pre school. Strategies are suggested for cognitive and language development.
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- Language Development
- This booklet is designed to provide essential information and teaching strategies for secondary school teachers to help them to enable pupils with Down's syndrome to access the curriculum. It outlines the learning profile specific to young people with Down's syndrome and focuses on the impact that language delay can have upon learning.
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- Developing Mathematics Skills
- This booklet provides essential information and teaching strategies for secondary school teachers to help them to enable pupils with Down's syndrome to access the mathematics curriculum. It outlines the mathematics learning process and the possible difficulties that may arise for young people with Down's syndrome. It focuses upon the importance of concept development and how developmental delay impacts upon learning.
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- Making It Work
- Designed to support staff working at primary and secondary stages. Covers issues such as transition Define Transition between schools, building friendships, communication, literacy Define Literacy , numeracy Define Numeracy and behaviour.
- Download PowerPoint Presentation [1210kB]
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- Social Studies: Celts, Vikings and Romans
- Three social studies packs with differentiated curriculum Define Differentiated curriculum . The following samples are available to download:
- Sample book [PDF 480kB]
- Sample cards [PDF 204kB]
- Sample doll [PDF 220kB]
- Sample worksheet [PDF 655kB]
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