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 […]
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 Data-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals In 2023, IHC released a landmark report using New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI), a large government database holding information on nine million people. This research exposed stark inequities faced by people with intellectual disability, including much poorer health outcomes, higher rates of chronic illness, and […]
