Focus: Improved Health-Improved Lives Audience: All In this presentation, Dr Brian Skotko reviews all of the questions and concerns that parents most often have about their sons and daughters with Down syndrome. He provides the answers and action steps, stemming from the latest clinical research on people with Down syndrome. Based on his clinical experience […]
Focus: Improved Education/Employment-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals This presentation explores how education and employment systems can better support people with Down syndrome. Grant will highlight systemic barriers and share practical strategies to create equitable opportunities that value their strengths and contributions of the people we support. He will also spend time exploring ideas that […]
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Focus: Improved Information-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals Krissy is the National Librarian at the CCS Disability Action Library and Information Service. Krissy will talk about her passion in sharing information to empower people. Krissy will share the different accessible forms of information and talk about sharing information through community radio and podcast.
Focus: Improved Wellbeing and Resilience-Improved Lives Audience: All
Focus: Improved Education–Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals I’m presenting in my capacity as a parent, not in a professional capacity. My daughter Charlotte is in Year 4 at our local primary school. I’ll be sharing with you about this journey so far and how we work together with our school to ensure that we have […]
Focus: Improved Advocacy-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals How do we transform lived experience into political influence? In her talk, Juliana Carvalho will share the story and strategy behind the Access Matters campaign, a grassroots movement working to make accessibility a political priority in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on lessons from collective action, community organising, and […]
Focus: Improved Information-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals A brief look at what the IHC Library is and how it can support parents, caregivers and anyone with an interest in intellectual disability.
Focus: Improved Communications-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals This presentation shares a pilot study of Babble Boot Camp, a caregiver-led programme that supports early speech and language development in infants with Down syndrome, offering insights into proactive strategies for lifelong communication
Focus: Improved Health-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals This talk will cover the unfair health outcomes faced by people with Down syndrome and intellectual disabilities, including findings from Down Syndrome International's 'Our Say in Our Health' report. We will also discuss work happening on this topic from the World Health Organization, and actions that […]
Focus: Improved Aging-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals Navigating Ever-Changing Seas is a new model for understanding the experiences of ageing people with intellectual (learning) disabilities and the family/whānau who support them. These relationships can be complex and change over time, often involving multiple generations. Everyone’s experience is shaped by their identity, relationships, past […]