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DSA's Latest Funding Appeal - Tell it Right
... with advice and guidance on how to get it right during screening and at birth. With 25,000 midwives working in the NHS and a great number of interested medical professionals we plan to host 50 training ...
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Training Team
... Units across Scotland to create study days for Midwives and Hospital staff to ensure that current NICE guidelines about antenatal screening are being met and to give professionals accurate and up-to-date ...
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Awareness Week 2010
... mothers and new parents of babies with Down’s syndrome receive balanced and accurate information about Down’s syndrome prior to screening and when a diagnosis of the condition is made. Shifting ...
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Midwives support Tell it Right, Start it Right
... of whom agreed with the importance of providing accurate and up-to-date information about Down's syndrome to new parents prior to antenatal screening and when a diagnosis is made. Many of them agreed to ...
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DSA Response to the British Medical Journal research on Down's syndrome births - released 27th October
... of pregnancy. It is therefore even more important that families undergoing the screening process are given non-directive counselling and accurate, up-to-date information about Downs' syndrome." Attitudes ...
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The DSA launches an All Party Parliamentary Group
... the quality of information provided to parents throughout the prenatal screening process, and to those with a post-natal diagnosis. As well as establishing current public funding for research (medical, ...
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Tell It Right, Start It Right Campaign History
... Down's syndrome, all of whom agreed with the importance of providing accurate and up-to-date information about Down's syndrome to new parents prior to antenatal screening and when a diagnosis is made. ...
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Are you pregnant, have you just given birth?
... just given birth to a baby with Down's syndrome. The film-makers are in the process of developing a sensitive documentary film about the current pre-natal screening programme and the decision making ...
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Feeding
... at least have the screening blood test as there is a higher incidence of coeliac with DS. Our daughter is the first known case in the entire family. This also explained why she was a fussy eater. We thought ...
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BBC Radio 4 - 'Born with Down's syndrome'
... any of us working in the field would have anticipated and it seems to show that more parents are thinking more carefully before opting for prenatal screening and termination - that being born with Down's ...
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Births with Down's syndrome increase
The number of babies in England and Wales being born with Down's syndrome has risen to a higher level than in 1989 when serum pre-natal screening was widely introduced - with two births a day according ...
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Atlanto-axial Information pack
... on screening for Atlanto-Axial Instability in people with Down's syndrome prior to taking part in gymnastics or other sports. Please note this is not a DSA publication. See the DSA booklet above. ...
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Response to research about pre-natal screening
... of the Down's Syndrome Association, said: "The Down's Syndrome Association is saddened to hear about the number of healthy babies potentially lost through prenatal screening. Losing any baby is terribly ...
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Health Care
... professionals in treating patients with learning disabilities. Thorough and timely heart screening for all babies with Down's syndrome. More care in the way new parents are told that their baby has ...
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5. Do people with Down's syndrome have medical problems?
... to assist families and health professionals to set up screening programmes so that health problems can be picked up early on and treated before they become more serious. None of these problems is unique ...
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1. I have just had a baby with Down's syndrome. Will my child be healthy?
... other children. Because we are aware of common medical problems in people with Down's syndrome, screening programmes can be set up so that any problems are picked up and treated as soon as possible. Some ...
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What To Say / Not Say
... Down's syndrome (in relation to pre-natal screening and probability assessments) the chance of a baby having Down's syndrome Myths Facts People with Down's syndrome don't live ...
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People with Down's syndrome and dementia face discrimination
... Non-awareness of these differences presents a barrier to early diagnosis by health professionals. • Also, these early clues may give rise to justification for regular screening in those suspected to ...
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AnSWeR
This site provides balanced information about disability to help you make decisions about screening tests in pregnancy. Our aim is to provide information so that you can make the best decision for you ...