Entries from April 2006
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Apr 26, 2006 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX) — The Down Syndrome Research Foundation today announced that Josephine Mills, the founding Executive Director of the Down Syndrome Research Foundation, will be awarded Canada’s Meritorious Service Award on April 28th 2006.
This Award will be presented to Ms. Mills by Governor General Right Honorable Michaelle Jean at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
The Governor General presents Meritorious Service Awards on behalf of all Canadians to recognize those who have demonstrated "excellence, courage or exceptional …
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OREM — The Utah Down Syndrome Foundation is seeking donations to pay for a young adults dance May 21 at Utah Valley State College.
The dance, which will be in the Grande Ballroom of the Sorensen Student Center, will be a country hoedown. Dress will be Western.
Activities include dinner and square-dancing instruction.
People or companies interested in contributing to the event can e- mail Brenda Winegar at phurs@aol.com, or call 801-225-1929 for more information.
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Byline: Marni Pyke Daily Herald Staff Writer Like a lot of guys, Sujeet Desai was shy about asking women out on dates. But he overcame that nervousness and now is engaged to his soul mate, Carrie Bergeron. And like a lot of young couples, Desai and Bergeron are coping with stresses such as finding an apartment together and planning the wedding - or weddings - in their case.
Both have Down syndrome. That’s another challenge, but nothing compared to what they’ve overcome so far, the two say. "There were two dreams in my life," Desai told a crowd in Lisle on …
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> Down syndrome (DS) has been shown to have a specific behavioral phenotype in language that includes delays in expressive syntax, errors of grammatical morpheme omission and use, and deficits in intelligibility (Chapman & Hesketh, 2000; Miller, Leddy, & Leavitt, 1999). In individuals with DS, mean length of utterance (MLU) has typically been used as a measure of expressive language in conversational (Fowler, 1995) or narrative (Chapman, Seung, Schwartz, & Kay-Raining Bird, 1998) speech samples, which have been shown to differ in the opportunities for complex syntax that …
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