Reading Video 1: Successful Strategies for Beginning Readers with Down Syndrome
This 30-minute video outlines our successful strategies for beginning readers and contains both practical ideas as well as footage of these ideas in practice. It is never too early or too late for learning to read and these strategies can be used with very young children to the adult learner.

Reading Video 2: Successful Strategies: Memory, Phonological Awareness and Beginning Phonics
This 30-minute video is the companion to Successful Strategies for Beginning Readers and supports the next step in reading development. The video explains that students with Down syndrome may have difficulties with auditory memory due to auditory processing difficulties and/or hearing loss, and demonstrates activities that target the development of auditory memory.

Reading Video 3: Developing Phonics Skills and Reading Fluency
This video demonstrates a variety of activities you can use to support the development of phonics skills and reading fluency. Skills focused on are digraphs and consonant blends, segmenting and blending, and reading fluency.

3.21: Canada’s Down Syndrome Magazine, a joint publication of the Canadian Down Syndrome Society and the Down Syndrome Resource Foundation.

3.21 Magazine

Together with The Down Syndrome Resource Foundation, the Canadian Down Syndrome Society publishes and digitally circulates 3.21 – Canada’s Down Syndrome Magazine, four times a year.

3.21 is written for and about the Down syndrome community in Canada – it includes stories about advocacy, advice from professionals, the latest news, and important dates about upcoming events and activities.

Download the Latest Issue Here