Parents Connecting to Other Parents: An Antidote to Stress

"Stress: Portrait of a Killer" is a National Geographic film featuring Stanford University neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky. A 5-minute segment in the film focuses on parents of children with disabilities and a study that shows there is biochemical evidence that the chronic stress parents experience damages areas of the brain. So what is the one antidote to the damage caused by chronic stress? Getting together with other parents in a supportive atmosphere! check the following link for more information and to view a clip from the film: http://www.pbs.org/stress/

What If People With Down Syndrome Ruled The World?

This is the title of a paper authored by Dennis McGuire, Ph.D. of the Adult Down Syndrome Center of Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge Illinois. It was originally delivered as a plenary address at the conference in Chicago in July of 2005, co-sponsored by the National Down Syndrome Society and the National Association for Down Syndrome. You can read the full text at http://www.nads.org/pages_new/news/ruletheworld.html