about it and others may not have. Down syndrome is a genetic disorder where there is extra genetic material in chromosome 21. There are three pairs of chromosome 21 instead of two. This disorder is referred to as Trisomy 21. This can occur at any age for women but the older a woman becomes the higher the risks. By the age of 30, there is 1 in 1000 chance that women will have a child with Down syndrome. By the age of 35, the odds of having a child with Down syndrome is 1 in 400 and by the age of 40, 1 in 40. There are different severities of Down syndrome, some are fairly functional, some are not and others are not functional. There are three genetic disorders that cause DS: Trisomy 21 (the most common), Mosaic Down syndrome, and Translocation Down syndrome. Children that have Down syndrome can and do go to school Delete text and place photo here.
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and others are in a special school like Ida Sue School in Wooster, OH. As you can see to the left, there are students working in class learning and later seeing a student graduate school and lead productive lives. What an accomplishment.productive lives. What an accomplishment.
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accomplishment. Here is the process that I used to search for websites on the learning disability of Down syndrome that I felt were credible. I first typed in Down syndrome and came up with many results. I scrolled down through some of the websites to see which ones I wanted to use. I found some but later I narrowed my search down by using advance searches like Down syndrome and teaching, Down
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syndrome and history, Down syndrome and
teaching strategies and parent teaching strategies and others. I found different websites that were credible. There were some .com websites that I bypassed. The .org websites seemed to be plentiful and some .gov were very useful. To ensure the websites are credible, I evaluated the websites by using the C.R.A.A.P test.
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The five areas of concentration are currency,
relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. The first website that I considered credible was the mayoclinic.org. The first area I looked at was how current was the information I was viewing. The last updated information was in July 13, 2013. This information I felt was current because Down syndrome causes never change. They are the same today as they were fifty years ago. I also checked some links from the website and they were functional. The next area was relevance. The information published was appropriate for parents,
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DOWN SYNDROME teachers, and the community to understand. The authority is the Mayo Clinic. They have many doctors there who also review the information published. The information was accurate and relevant to Down syndrome and very easy to understand. The information published was to be informative to the community and others. The second website used was kidsheatlth.org. The last review date on this was February 2012 by Mary Gaven MD and Charles Scott MD. The information was current and relevant. The information was easy to understand and there were links from the doctors names and provides information about them. This website goes through an 18 step review by doctors to make sure all information is correct. The purpose is to be educational to parents, kids, community and others. The third website I found is cdc.gov. The last review date for this site was August 7, 2014. The information is relevant and there were people that researched and are on committees for the government. The accuracy of this information is accurate since it is a governmental website. This website was to inform and educate about the risks and causes of Down syndrome. The fourth website I used was desinternational.org. The last review date was May 8, 2014. The information was relevant and useful to help teachers that have Down syndrome children in their classroom. On the reference page of this document, there were many people that contributed to this article. Being a document from the government, this also lends authority to the information. The information was to help teachers work with Down syndrome children in the classroom. The last website I found was betterhealth.vic.gov. This too is a government website. This website was reviewed on May 2012 and update on August 13, 2014. The information is relevant and accurate concerning Down syndrome. The information was easy to understand and follow. The purpose of this website is to inform and educate the community and others about Down syndrome. One strength in using the internet for research is that the information can be very current versus using a text book. A textbook can go out of date fairly quickly. Another strength is there are many articles that have a credible source. The people that write some of the articles can be doctors and people that have done research and studies on this illness. Some weaknesses are some sites do not have an author or you cannot trust the information that is put on the website because of the type of site it is. Another weakness is that anybody can write anything on the web and post it and that person can claim that he/she is an expert in a particular subject. https://c1.staticflickr.com
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REFERENCES Better Health Channel (2014). Down syndrome. Retrieved from http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014, August). Facts about Down syndrome. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/DownSyndrome.html Down syndrome education international (2014). A reading and language intervention for children with Down syndrome. Retrieved from http://www.dseinternational.org/en-gb/resources/teaching/rli/ KidsHealth (2014). Down syndrome. Retrieved from http://kidshealth.org Mayo Clinic (2014). Diseases and conditions: Down syndrome. Retrieved from http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseasesconditions/down-syndrome/basics/definition/con-20020948 Smith, D.D. and Tyler, N.C. (1992). Intellectual Disabilities or Mental Retardation. In J.W.Johnston (Ed.), Introduction to Special Education Making a Difference (262-295). UpperSaddle River, NJ. Pearson
All pictures used were Creative Commons except for the chart on types of Down syndrome. The chart came from the Mayo Clinic website as sited above.
