Current Affairs | Shades of Different

Marlow FM podcast – 8th July 2020

by Erika Petrie | Jul 20, 2020 | Current Affairs, Feel Good, Podcasts

Erika Petrie is interviewed by Mary Flavelle about all matters down syndrome…

Blandford Forum Focus Article – April Issue 2020

by Guest Writer | Jul 20, 2020 | Articles, Current Affairs, Feel Good

Miki’s music honours the ‘different’ children

Chelsea Werner, an American champion world gymnast with Down Syndrome becomes a high fashion model

by Erika Petrie | Jul 17, 2020 | Articles, Current Affairs, Feel Good

Chelsea as a world champion gymnast Chelsea Werner, born with Down Syndrome and now 32 years of age never ceases to amaze us. With sheer determination and practice she has become world gymnastics champion twice over (despite low muscle tone she defied all...

Luca Trapanese who adopted a Down Syndrome child, as a single dad

by Erika Petrie | Jul 15, 2020 | Articles, Current Affairs, Feel Good

This is a truly heart-warming story…Luca Trapanese a young single man in Naples, Italy, years ago set up his own centre for disabled adults and children, a home from home where people with disabilities abandoned by their own families or in need of respite care...

A woman with Down Syndrome in Argentina becomes the first pre-school teacher (first case in Latin America)

by Erika Petrie | Jul 14, 2020 | Articles, Current Affairs, Feel Good

Four years ago, Noellia Garella, an argentine woman with Down Syndrome, who herself had been discriminated against and was called ‘a monster’ at school, became the very first woman to be accepted as a pre-school teacher. She was initially met with a great...