When we first started on our journey with our daughter Jossie, who has Down syndrome, we would never have dreamed that we would be such frequent travellers. We envisaged that it would be too [...]

Woman with Down syndrome’s landmark case against UK Govt over “discriminatory” abortion law to be heard by High Court on 6th July 2021. Heidi Crowter, a 25-year-old woman from [...]

Medical professionals, we do love you, but please don’t be blinkered by Down syndrome when assessing our children! I’m not saying you shouldn’t take it into account, of course not, but see it [...]

    I first experienced the phenomena of diagnostic overshadowing when I sat in Accident & Emergency with my younger brother David while he winced in pain. He had an abdominal [...]

You’re nineteen. You’ve invested £3000 as well as eighteen months of the past three years into studying what you love the most: Sound Design for Games. You’re all set! You’re nineteen. [...]

Dear readers, Here we are, second edition in already, glowing with the warm welcome and wonderful feedback we have received following the first edition in January. Dedicated as always to living [...]

Layla, Carlyn, Rose and Lucy… These are the names of Lorraine and Derek Cridge’s four daughters. The couple adopted all four young women, each at the age of five or six months old. The Cridges [...]

  Government announces roll-out of new Down syndrome test that will likely see rise in abortions. The number of babies with Down syndrome that are aborted is likely to increase following a [...]

  When you are an expectant parent, you have dreams of what your baby and your family will look like. Will he have his dad’s mass of curly blonde locks? Will she have mom’s sunny smile and [...]

  Bonnie Clayton Daugherty and her husband Mike opened their home to Doug McLain. Their story shares the challenges involved in creating the optimal adult living situation, and how listening [...]