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Secondary Students
www.downsyndromevictoria.org.au 1300 658 873
This slide show celebrates diversity.
We are all unique but in a way we are also the same.
We are all different…
the colour of our hair, the colour of our eyes?
Some of us like reading, some like sport.
Some people are outgoing,
and some are shy.
We’re all unique.
We don’t have to be exactly
the same to enjoy being together.
We’d like to introduce you
to four different people now.
Meet Pheobe
She loves the beach and surf lifesaving.
Pheobe enjoys
athletics and
she’s a great
runner.
She also
participates in
cross country
and swimming.
This is Jackson
Jackson goes to a Special Development high school and he loves swimming.
Jackson attends
Drama classes.
He recently
acted on the
TV show
Blue Heelers.
He also plays
several musical instruments.
This is Emily
Emily loves singing andsong writing.
Emily and Michael are
engaged to be married.
Emily attends a day
training program
where she learns
life skills, so she can
get a job and move out
of home one day.
Meet Jeremy
Jeremy enjoys playing the drums.
Jeremy works
at KFC.
He loves his job.
• They all have Down syndrome
• They were born with Down syndrome, and will always have it
• Down syndrome is not an illness or a disease.
You can’t catch it!
• People with Down syndrome have some physical characteristics that make them look similar but they mainly look like their families
• The name, Down syndrome, comes from the Doctor who first described it, Dr John Langdon Down
Even though they are all very different they have one thing in common….
What is Down syndrome?
Our bodies are
made of millions
of cells.
Each cell has 23
pairs of
chromosomes
(46 chromosomes
in each cell).Picture of normal Chromosomes
People with Down syndrome have an extra chromosome 21.
Most babies born with Down syndrome have an extra chromosome 21 in every cell in their body.
This very small difference causes Down syndrome – we know how it happens but we do not yet know why.
Picture of Chromosomes of someone with Down syndrome
Chromosomes carry the blue print or growing plan that tells our bodies how to develop.
Having the extra chromosome makes
the growing plan work
a little differently for people with Down syndrome.
About 60 babies are born with
Down syndrome in Victoria every year
Babies with
Down syndrome
need lots of love
and attention,
just like other
babies.
Young children with Down syndrome attend
Early Intervention from a very early age to get
them ready for kindergarden and school.
The therapists at Early
Intervention work to
improve their speech,
physical and
socialisation skills.
• Children with Down syndrome may learn things more slowly than other children.
• Children with Down syndrome often need extra help to learn some things.
People with Down syndrome have all the same feelings that we all have – they get happy, sad,
angry, frustrated…. just as we all do.
People with Down syndrome
may not speak quite
as clearly as you and
they may take longer
to learn some things.
But…
They usually understand a lot
more than they can say…
Everyone needs friends
If you have a friend with a
disability treat them the same
as your other friends.• Find out what their interests are
• Include them in activities
• Invite them over
• Call them after school for a chat
Remember that they probably enjoy the same things that you do.
Friendship
Sometimes you mayneed to help yourfriend, but mostly they’lllike to be independent.
Encourage them to have a go.
Everyone likes to be independent and be given a chance tohave a go at things.
Just be patient and allowthem time to work things out.
People withDown syndromemay look a bitdifferent andmay take a littlelonger to process some conceptsbut...
Look around you,
everyone’s
different….
Wouldn’t life be
boring if everyone
was the same?
The end…