down syndrome

Offers a comprehensive overview of a child's language needs from kindergarten through middle school and explains how the communication problems associated with Down syndrome impact those needs, with practical suggestions designed to help teachers deal with those challenges and meet their students' needs.

Presents guidelines and illustrated instructions for over one hundred activities designed to help Down syndrome children, from infant through age six, maximize the development of their gross motor skills.

Offers advice to parents and professionals on how to promote healthy lifestyles in people with Down syndrome, from infants to young adults, discussing early eating and feeding and the connection between nutrition and Down syndrome, providing strategies for teaching healthy choices, and including learning activities.

Four friends' association with a mentally handicapped boy with supernatural abilities leaves them with special gifts that come in handy when they unite as adults for an annual hunting trip in Maine and find themselves in the middle of an alien invasion.

A boy with Down Syndrome helps his parents and grandparents get ready for the birth of his baby sister and chooses the perfect name for her.

After her mother's death, twelve-year-old Bryn tries to make a new life when her taciturn father moves them to a rural community in Canada to live with her elderly aunt and her cousin Winnie, a loving girl with Down syndrome.

Four friends' association with a mentally handicapped boy with supernatural abilities leaves them with special gifts that come in handy when they unite as adults for an annual hunting trip in Maine and find themselves in the middle of an alien invasion.

Examines causes of Down syndrome, new developments in medical treatment, and changes in attitudes toward people who have this condition.

An HIV-positive high school student hospitalized after being attacked, the bigot accused of the crime, and the only witness, a classmate with Down Syndrome, reveal how the assault has changed their lives as they tell of its aftermath.