2008 looks like being another record year for the charity's training services. In the first three months of the year, members of the charity's team of psychologists and speech therapists have provided training courses attended by over 750 parents and professionals across the UK and overseas. Our busy schedule of training looks set to continue for the rest of the year, with a full programme of training courses at The Sarah Duffen Centre and many more events worldwide.
The Down Syndrome Educational Trust has contributed to What Kind of a Future? - a new resource for school leavers published by the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities.
A review by Professor Sue Buckley of the current research evidence on teaching reading and writing to individuals with Down syndrome has just been published in the new book Speech and Language Development and Intervention in Down syndrome and Fragile X syndrome.
The Down Syndrome Educational Trust has now made 80 more reader-friendly articles on Down syndrome freely available for online as part of its new Free Access publishing initiative.
The Trust has published the latest book in its Down Syndrome Issues and Information series. The new book, written by leading international experts, provides advice on community living for adults with Down syndrome.
Customers in the US can now obtain the Trust's publications on all aspects of education and development with reduced shipping, direct from a US reseller. Many Trust publications are now available including the authoritative Down Syndrome Issues and Information series of books and the Down Syndrome in Practice series of films.
Many of the world's leading scientists, researchers and practitioners have joined The Down Syndrome Educational Trust's new Science, Research and Intervention Advisory Board. They will help lead the Trust's expanding research activities.
The Down Syndrome Educational Trust has published a new DVD on Speech and language activities for preschool children with Down syndrome. Part of the Trust's Down Syndrome in Practice series, the new film focuses on practical strategies that can be included within everyday play, routines and activities.
The Down Syndrome Educational Trust recently welcomed over 70 researchers and practitioners to a symposium to discuss the current status of Down syndrome research and future directions. Leading geneticists, molecular biologists, neuroscientists and psychologists joined speech and language therapists, paediatricians and other practitioners at the meeting hosted in Portsmouth, UK. The Trust also welcomed representatives of major Down syndrome organisations from around the world to plan a future research agenda.
The Down Syndrome Educational Trust has announced that from 2007, the journal Down Syndrome Research and Practice will be fully Open Access, with all content freely available online in full. [TODO]