WDSD NEWSLETTER   

Every year World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) is celebrated around 21 March in order to raise public awareness of Down syndrome. The date was selected to signify the uniqueness of the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome. In this newsletter you will find some of the activities organized by our members and supporting associations. Enjoy it!

In celebration of World Down syndrome day 2021,  T21RS invites you to join us for this webinar on COVID-19 vaccination: 

T21RS COVID-19 Initiative: scientific evidence supporting COVID-19 vaccination prioritization in Down syndrome

Date: 22nd March 2021 

Time: 14:00 – 15:30 pm UK, 15:00 – 16:30 pm CET; 10:00 – 11:30 am  EDT, 19:30 – 21:00 pm Kolkata, India  

Virtual flashmob for celebrating WDSD

To celebrate World Down Syndrome Day, a dance challenge imagined by the French association "Tombé du Nid" will take place. A whole community of families and associations from 19 different countries are preparing together a choreography to create a virtual flashmob under the label EUfortrisomy21. The Institute and the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation are pleased to join this initiative

The choreography was imagined by a choreographer who has worked with people with DS, from the last single of Kimberose: "Back on my feet".

The objective of this challenge is that the social networks be filled with people reproducing the choreography, with the hashtag #EUForTrisomy21 #Challenge #downsyndrome

Campaign to promote sport among people with Down syndrome launched by Trisomie 21 France

Trisomie 21 France launches a campaign to promote sport among people with Down syndrome coinciding with WDSD. The aim is to connect everyone around sport, since we all have the same rights!

See you on March 21 for a sports morning video! We will all play sports together. Sportsmen and women with and without intellectual disabilities will lead video-conference sports sessions for you! And….Don't forget your mismatched socks!

Don’t forget to share your experiences with sport! If you have organized sports events, or played sports, you can send your experiences related to sport to communication@trisomie21-france.org

Take the best awareness photo or video to make everyday sport accessible to everyone. The rules of the challenge are 1/ Complete the sentence "Sport moves the body and ..." and use it in your video or on your photo 2/ The video should be 10 seconds maximum 3/ Use mismatched socks 4/ For the content, anything is possible related to daily sports activity, or performing a sports performance, or just talking, or whatever ... 2 prizes are waiting you.  You can send your videos to relations.partenaires@trisomie21-france.org

For additional information visit the press release

Annual scientific meeting organized by AFRT

AFRT organizes a virtual meeting for the 16th World Down Syndrome Day. Visio-Conferences will be held on March 19-20. The meeting will cover several stimulating topics from the access to care and medical monitoring to the new research tools to understand Down syndrome and the impact of COVID-19 on this population. Registration until March 15.

For more information click here.

Global Down Syndrome Forum

In anticipation of World Down Syndrome Day, we look forward to hosting the first edition of the 2021 Global Down Syndrome Forum. The event will feature presentations from global thought leaders and experts on the science and care of Down syndrome and Down syndrome-related Alzheimer’s disease. The increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease is thought to have a genetic cause and results in an earlier occurrence of symptoms in nearly all people living with Down syndrome

Down Syndrome Seminar Series

Moving forward the analysis of animal models for a
better understanding of Down syndrome along
lifetime

March 24, 2021 @ 4:30pm (GMT)
Speaker: Dr Yann HERAULT
(I.G.B.M.C., France)
Join Zoom Meeting Here
Meeting ID: 922 4815 6799
Passcode: 185482

 Deutsches Down-Syndrome InfoCenter 

WDSD goes online with our initiative "Teile Gutes 21" ("Sharing good 21")

People with Down Syndrome have so much to give. And they love to celebrate.

And we want to celebrate WDSD 2021, even though not everyone may feel like celebrating at the moment.

This year we want to „share good“  to cheer up, encourage, touch and give hope to the world.

What is the good that can be shared?

A song, a video message, a photo or a saying, a short story, a photo-stretch … an info about how you celebrate March 21st, what you have planned or prepared.

The campaign lives from the diversity of ideas and the people who participate: People with and without Down Syndrome, parents, siblings, relatives and friends, groups and DS initiatives, educators, therapists, pedagogues and so on and so forth.

We publish the contributions on www.teile-gutes21.de and on Instragram and Facebook #TeileGutes21.

We are looking forward to every idea and hope to spread a smile that connects people with and without Down Syndrome in this challenging time.

2021 Online Down Syndrome Research Forum

Down Syndrome Education International (DSE) hostes the Down Syndrome Research Forum 2021 which is being held online on 11 and 12 March. The forum offers academic researchers and professional practitioners the opportunity to share and discuss current research, recent findings, and implications for practice. The program provides detail about the content of each session with links to the abstracts. The event is being hosted from the UK over two days. The live sessions will begin each day at 09:00 (9.00am) UK time (GMT/UTC/+0:00).

T21 Research Society