Find more online and local services supporting those with Down’s syndrome.

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21 Together

Kent

Provides training, events, groups, and support for children with Down’s syndrome and their family members, carers, friends, and supporters.

Email
info@21together.org.uk

Phone

01622 230720

DS Achieve

Hertfordshire and surrounding counties

Empower families and professionals to enable children and young people with Down’s syndrome to reach their full potential. Provide services for individuals with Down’s syndrome, and tools for parents and professionals.

Phone
07824 467471

Down’s Syndrome Association

Supports people with Down’s syndrome, and their parents and carers, at all stages of life, including pre-birth.

Phone
0333 1212300

Down’s Syndrome Scotland

Provide all-through life support, resources, information and training across Scotland for expectant and new parents, families, carers and professionals through local Family Support Teams. They deliver services for babies, children, young people and adults and have a vibrant community through 10 local parent led branches and online members Hub.

Training courses delivered by DS Scotland.

Phone
0300 030 2121

Down Syndrome UK

Aims to empower parents and professionals to improve the lives of people with Down’s syndrome, and their families, across the UK.

Phone
0330 111 2121

Inclusively Down

Providing pro-active solutions, enabling children and young people with Down syndrome to access an inclusive education, achieve and fulfil their full potential across all areas.

Phone
07950 000712 (Lucy)

07785 994071 (Julie)

Makaton is a unique language programme that uses symbols, signs and speech to enable people to communicate. It supports the development of essential communication skills such as attention and listening, comprehension, memory, recall and organisation of language and expression.

Makaton

Phone
01276 606760

Maths for Life

Maths for Life programmes are designed to help students whom the national curriculum structure and timescale for maths are unattainable.

NASEN

The National Association for Special Educational Needs- created to support and champion those working with, and for, children and young people with SEND and learning differences.

Phone
01827 311500

SEN Magazine

Working to provide high-quality, inclusive relationships and sex education (RSE), for all children and young people. Offers a range of SEND specialist RSE training courses for teachers, and support staff, and a membership scheme for educators and youth professionals involved in providing RSE.

Phone
01200 409800

SEN Resources Blog

Run by Georgina Durrant, the SEN Resources Blog gives advice and recommendations on all things SEN, particularly around early years and activities for children with SEN.

SEND Tutoring provides tuition to children with special educational needs and disabilities. The children they help are those who have a diagnosis of, or possible, special educational needs (SEND) and/or behavioural needs including speech and language delay, focus and concentration difficulties, memory difficulties, sensory processing disorder, autism and high-functioning autism (Asperger’s Syndrome), ADHD / ADD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, sensory needs, Down’s Syndrome, Global Developmental Delay, emotional challenges and other SEND needs. Tuition is face-to-face or online dependent on the clients request.

SEND Tutoring

Phone
0203 4413097 or 07956501163

Sex Education Forum

Working to provide quality relationship and sex education, for all young people.

Phone
07523 911016

Award-winning educational apps specially designed to support children with special educational needs.

Currently not in service.

Special iApps

Stepping Stones DS

Hampshire

In addition to providing an opportunity for families to become part of a local support network, Stepping Stones DS provide a wide range of educational, physical and social activities and services for children and young people with Down syndrome, their families and the professionals involved in their care. 

Phone
01252 417014

Twinkl

Twinkl Inclusion offers thousands of educational and therapeutic resources for a range of needs, with accessible tools and support for any setting, practitioner or parent. 

Widgit

Widgit’s products use symbols to support text, to help people read, understand, and communicate, using visual aids.

Phone
01926 333680