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Cumbria Down's Syndrome Support group are a Registered charity and support group for people living in Cumbria with Down’s Syndrome, for their families & carers. We aim to provide support to new parents and give them opportunities to meet other families living with Down’s Syndrome. We are a source of local and general information regarding Down’s Syndrome and hope to raise awareness and understanding of Down’s Syndrome in the local community.

WHAT'S ON

Aura sensory sessions

Cumbria Down's Syndrome Support Group have had an early Christmas present in the form of 3 grants from the Parry Family Charitable Foundation!

The First is for Monthly sensory sessions at Aura, Kendal.

The second is to provide kit for our Walk leaders and Walkers.

The third is to put toward room hire for Singing Hands.

Singing hands use Makaton to perform to children and will be in Kendal on September 28th & Carlisle on September 29th for CumbriaDSSG. More information and tickets on sale soon !

Bowling

We hold regular Bowling sessions, which are FREE to members, their siblings, parents and carers.

Sessions are on the 1st Friday of every month.

Starting at 6pm

AMF Bowling

Currock Road

Carlisle

CA2 4AS

A great way to socialise and meet new friends.

For regular updates on activities, You can join Cumbria Down's Syndrome Support Group here: https://www.membermojo/CumbriaDSSG

Up Up and Away Early intervention sessions.

There is a lot to be said about early intervention and children with Down's Syndrome need additional support when it comes to learning how to sound out words and speak.

Professor Sue Buckley, saw the need for a speech and language programme when her daughter was young. Today, thanks to her we have See and Learn, "Specialist, evidence-based apps and teaching materials designed to improve language, reading, speech, memory and numeracy outcomes for children with Down syndrome."

https://www.seeandlearn.org/en-gb/

Debbie Austin from Up Up and away is coming to Carlisle once a fortnight to teach our children, and us how to use See and Learn. Debbie has 4 years experience of teaching see and learn as well as having a wealth of knowledge in other areas of Down's Syndrome, professionally and as a Parent. https://www.facebook.com/groups/516520415117611/

For people living in the South of Cumbria our lovely neighbours in the North Lancashire Down's Syndrome Support Group have invited you to join their Early intervention classes with Up Up and Away.

North Lancashire Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/264603363664580/

You can join CubriaDSSG here: https://www.membermojo/CumbriaDSSG

DSA "Tell it Right, Start It Right" Campaign.

In January we went along to meet Student Midwives at Cumbria University.

The Down's Syndrome Association Did an Amazing job of educating and raising awareness about Down's Syndrome amongst the students.

Members of our group each gave an informative presentation about their birth stories and one of our younger members aged only 1 came along to say hello.

The feedback from this was extremely positive and a lot of the Student midwives said they though it was helpful to speak to parents of children who happen to have Down's Syndrome.

Cumbria Down's Syndrome

Support Group

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