Horizon 2020 Programme – Improving Cognition in Down syndrome

New project, funded from the European Union’s Horizon research and innovation programme: Improving Cognition in Down syndrome (the ICOD project) The ICOD project is ready to start: the first EU-funded project on an innovative pharmacological approach for the treatment of cognitive dysfunction in Down Syndrome. Down syndrome (DS) is the most common chromosomal abnormality in […]

WDSD 2021 – NETHERLANDS (2)

Poster campaigns have a long tradition in the Netherlands. Since the first World Down Syndrome Day 2006 the Dutch DS Foundation has carried out these annual image campaigns. Two Poster Campaigns from the Dutch Down Syndrome Foundation „Staying at home – I go for it!“ In a very special poster campaign in the past pandemic […]

WDSD 2021 – UNITED KINGDOM

The Down’s Syndrome Association runs a range of online training sessions covering different subjects – a good way to keep in touch with families. A new fortnightly session is called „Sharing Positive Support“. Sharing Positive Support – New online session The Down’s Syndrome Association is hosting a new fortnightly session, called ‘Sharing Positive Support’, that […]

WDSD 2021 – SPAIN (Down España)

DOWN ESPAÑA, as a National Federation that represents 90 Down syndrome institutions throughout Spain created the so called „Down Talks“. Down Talks On March 14, 2020 the government of Spain decreed a state of alarm and a lockdown that lasted three months. People with Down syndrome and their families faced a new situation in which […]

WDSD 2021 – SWITZERLAND (French speaking)

ART 21, the Swiss DS-Association in the French speaking part of the country, offers its members various online activities, among others yoga. Yoga of joy – A project of Association Romande Trisomie 21 (ART 21) in the french speaking part of Switzerland During March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown meant all schools closed and home-schooling […]