Resource reviews

Challenge Me! Mobility Activity Cards

This resource review by Julie Hughes of Down Syndrome Education International looks at the Challenge Me! Mobility Activity Cards - a set of useful, practical activities that can be worked into everyday games. They address mobility, balance coordination, spatial awareness, trunk control, transferring skills, gross motor skills, flexibility, adaptability, safety awareness, and independence. Practising these skills can also have a knock-on effect on self-esteem and confidence.

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Down but not out: a tool for inclusion

This review by Jonathan Rix, lecturer in curriculum, inclusion and learning at the Open University, discusses the DownsEd film Inclusion in Practice: Educating children with Down syndrome at primary school. In this review, originally published in TES Magazine (part of the Times Educational Supplement), Jonathan Rix praises the film as "a very important tool for all school staff and local education authorities".

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