Down Syndrome

Hi, everyone.

My name is Briana Walker, and I will be presenting

Down syndrome and impact on education tonight.

As you can see in this picture, here's a picture

of my Aunt Tower and I, who has Down Syndrome

eso. The reason I chose this specific topic for the

project is because she has been a huge part of

my life.

And Down syndrome holds a special place in my heart,

as you can see.

So with that being said, let's get into it.

And I hope you enjoy today's presentation.

So as you see on the left, we have the

goals of the lesson today.

So we're gonna reel you in.

Yeah, the nice video to reel you in with, um,

we're gonna define what Down syndrome is.

We're gonna talk about some signs and behaviors of it.

Some statistics about it, the educational impact it has on

students plans for students to accommodate them, teaching strategies to

accommodate them.

Resource is, for families a quiz.

And then we, of course, have the reference page.

So the real you in there is a brief video

showing a glimpse of common fears of Down syndrome persons,

and it's a really nice video, and it just really

points out how, um, parents sometimes have fears about how

their child will succeed in life.

Being a Down syndrome child, I mean, it really just

shows how they overcome so many things.

And it's a beautiful video, so it's definitely worth the

watch. So after you watch that video, we'll get into

defining Down syndrome.

So, Down Syndrome, What is it?

Down Syndrome is also known as trisomy 21.

It's a genetic disorder, and it's called by an extra

chromosome abnormality in Chromosome 21.

As you can see on that picture where it's, er

it's circled on, do you concede that extra chromosome there

in in chromosome number 21 s.

So this is this disorder causes developmental and intellectual delays

until the disability is actually named after John Langdon down,

who came up with the clinical term down syndrome in

18 66 he was not the person to first, you

know, discover and talk about down syndrome.

But again, he was the one who came up with

the term, which is why it is named after him

and picture.

There is a picture of him, Um, and that is

him. So now we move into signs and behaviors off

people with down syndrome.

So some signs or that Down syndrome people have a

very distinctive look.

If you look here on the picture with the diagram,

um, of this Down syndrome baby, um, it shows you

that they have small noses, mouths and ears a slightly

have a bend in their fifth finger.

They have almond shaped eyes with skinned folds covering inner

corners of their eyes.

They have white spots on the color part of their

eyes, and they have a flat round face, and they

normally are short and stocky.

Built eso with that being said, they also have pretty

poor muscle tone.

And these are just some of the things that are

pretty common with Down syndrome people.

Um, and so again, as we stated before in the

definition, Clinton people who have this disorder are development see

and intellectually delayed, and when they reach adolescence or adulthood,

they for the most part have reached their set of

life skills by 18, when they reach adulthood, meaning that

pretty much from there they don't really mature much.

Eso the main issue, the level of understanding and thinking

when it deals in pertains to Down syndrome, and it

is something that is not contagious, and it's something that

cannot be cured.

So there's nothing that, um, you know, you could just

get by being around someone and again cannot be cured

by any medicines, treatments or anything like that.

It could just be You could just find techniques and

strategies to work with people that have this disorder some

of the common behaviors that you'll see, especially in childhood.

Um, sometimes it gets better.

Sometimes it kind of remain stagnant with down syndrome.

People, um, are for one attention problems they have, you

know, trouble kind of focusing on certain things, um, for

amount for a long amount of time.

It's a very brief time that they can pay attention

to certain things.

They tend to wander off again.

As I mentioned, this is something that's pretty that's done

when they're pretty little eso.

You have to make sure to keep a good eye

on them because they're curious and they just like to

wander around.

Impulse control issues is another huge one.

Um, they don't really again the developmental delay, in the

end, being intellectually delayed.

They really don't think before they do things at often

time, especially when they're young.

S O.

That is another issue, not issue, but behavior that is

common. I'm And so And then again, they have issues

communicating and managing their frustration with certain things.

And because of that, it's important for them to stay

on a schedule or some type of routine teacher.

So some statistics about Down Syndrome people in the United

States eyes that according to the CDC, about 6000 babies

are born yearly with Down syndrome, which equals toe wanted

every 700 babies that are born yearly and about 50

50 Excuse me.

Percent of these people are born with a congenital congenital

heart defect, Um, and so they tend to have heart

issues. And finally, another statistic is that women who are

older when pregnant are more likely to have baby with

down syndrome.

So if you look at this, um, discharge over here,

we see that as the age gets higher, when women

are having babies, it's it's ah really big chance that

the child will come out with Down syndrome eso That

is something that is pretty common and people women Excuse

me, that have Children after a certain age.

So some educational impacts or that students with down syndrome

are intellectual and developmental aid, as mentioned before, and because

of this, they often have speech and motor skills delays

as well as difficulty with managing their self care.

Also with students that do the 50% of students that

are with the heart defect, they often times are either

missing school for appointments that they need.

Or they have to go to the nurse frequently for

medications, Um, and Austin.

They're restricted in gym classes, dance classes and other type

of physical activity, so sometimes it causes them to miss

classes or school or not to be able to participate,

Um, as much as other students would be able to

without those issues.

So that's some ways that it affects their education and

their experience in the schooling.

Um, also is mentioned here.

It talks about their speech and motor skills, so with

having a delay with their motor skills, sometimes it would

be hard for them to hold a pencil or, you

know, right things also developmentally, at a certain age where

some general ed students would be writing their names and

learning how to read.

They're still learning basic skills, like holding a pencil and

things like that.

Finally, from this page, um, Thea Speech disorder is also

an issue when it comes to reading and, you know,

expressing themselves.

So it's something that has to be worked with as

well. Some plans for students with Down syndrome they are

often given i p or individual individualized care plan.

Yeah, to make their schooling experience more successful.

Here's a brief look at some teaching strategies that are

used often with Down syndrome students so multisensory class settings

to accommodate different types of learning visuals so that it

helps them understand what's going on.

So if you see in the pictures, both pictures there

are like pictures to go along with each word on

DSO, you see the student on the tablet using, um,

the tablet to communicate or to match things and also

the daily schedule with pictures next to it.

So students know what's going on, and they can see

what's going on.

Also, you see in the pictures technology usage, which is

another great strategy, Um, they could sometimes they have, like,

talk to speech type APS to help express what they

want or need.

Um, and again it could be used for matching and

learning literacy, frequent breaks and reputation because, as mentioned before,

they have trouble with focusing on things.

Strong communications not only with the teams and the families,

um, but just with the student as well, so they

can understand that you are there for them, your caring

about them and just making sure that you're doing what

you can to help better their experience, some arrangements again

due to student health.

They may be out of school, or they may have

been having to go to the nurse and things like

that. So just making sure that we make accommodate accommodations

for them if they are missing instruction or just sending,

even if sending things home toe work on while they

might be out of school for a long amount of

time, depending on things that might be going on, that

is another way to make great arrangements for them and

again just doing common routines with them that they're used

to that they can keep on a schedule because I

really helps them do better and focus in school some

resource is from families for families.

Excuse me in Maryland are mentioned here.

So there's a downside of network of Montgomery County, down

some connection of an Toronto county.

And in the family resource is family Resource Information and

Education Network for Down Syndrome, which is an acronym that

is used called friends.

And all that information is listed there.

So here you'll see a quiz s Oh, this is

just kind of to test your knowledge on the things

that was presented here today.

Super simple, super quick.

Definitely Make sure that you are keen on the information

presented here today and just the reference page to end

us. I hope you enjoyed this.

And I hoped you got to learn some new things.

Um, from hearing me today.

Thank you for allowing me to share my presentation and

have a great day.

Down Syndrome

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