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Martin is 31 years old and has Down syndrome. His father died 10 years ago and since that time he has struggled with anxiety and depression.  He has been painting for nearly five years. His mother first noticed how he seemed to enjoy doing a painting job for a friend when they were on holidays in NSW – just using the brush back and forwards. On their return to Perth, Martin started to paint with water colours in a sketch book – one painting a night. He really enjoyed this. It took quite a while to find an artist to work with Martin but eventually he began working with an artist friend called Nelson.
 

Source: Down Syndrome Australia

The first World Report on Hearing – by the World Health Organisation (WHO) – will be released on 17 May 2020. Deafness Forum is one of the members of a WHO working party to promote the World Hearing Report,. The material on this page is to help you to understand the purpose of the Report […]

Source: Deafness Forum of Australia

Julie Fisher and Tina Naughton are friends and have been for many years. Their older children were at school together. Through this friendship, Julie also knew Tina’s younger daughter Amy, who has Down syndrome, and had spoken to Tina at different times about what is was like when Amy was born. She knew the story of how receiving the diagnosis at birth had been difficult for Tina as she didn’t know what to expect when given a Down syndrome diagnosis for their baby girl.

Source: Down Syndrome Australia

My role here at Down Syndrome Association of Queensland is Administration Assistant I help with putting together Reading Our Way Kits, learning how to use the computer at work and at home as using database entering all the schools even technology with social media and everything else that I can think of like, working next to Georgie and Darryl and the QDSAN meetings.

Source: Down Syndrome Australia

Australian Communications Consumer Action Network commissioned research into the quality of live captions on Free-to-Air TV. This was after receiving feedback from Deafness Forum and consumers about the quality of live captions on TV. Researchers from the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University analysed 20 hours of programming across the five main channels […]

Source: Deafness Forum of Australia

Hi, I’m Kieren and I am four years old. I live with my mum, dad and older sister in Victoria. When my mum was pregnant with me, I was diagnosed with a rare variant of Down syndrome known as mosaic Trisomy 21.

Source: Down Syndrome Australia