Study plans for students with Down Syndrome

NIH Resets Study Plans for Down Syndrome

Key Point: This article shares "an expanded focus on how to improve students' learning and memory and help them participate more in K-12 and higher education" (Sparks, 2015). The article touches on all the difficulties that students with down syndrome go through in their education. 

Intended audience: educators, general public, families of students with down syndrome

Relevance: We have a student in our transition program with down syndrome, and this article was very interesting to read. It opens up the mind to see how students with down syndrome learn and work. It helps to relate more to the struggles that he goes through with this learning and work experiences. One thing that the article talks about is the ability of speech for students with down syndrome. Our student struggles with speaking clearly and getting his points across. Is it something that he struggles with every day and that we work on. It takes a lot of patience for us to let him slowly speak clearly. He is learning to not get frustrated and to work on it daily in order to get his points across verbally.

URL: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/01/14/nih-resets-study-plans-for-down-syndrome.html