Healthy Students with Down Syndrome: All the Medical Updates that Educators Need to Know.
How might behavior problems in the classroom be the result of an underlying medical issue? How do the conditions that go along with Down syndrome affect learning? In this presentation, Dr. Brian Skotko reviews all of the questions and concerns that educators most often have about their students with Down syndrome. He provides the answers and action steps, stemming from the latest clinical research on people with Down syndrome. Based on his clinical experience in the Down Syndrome Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Skotko provides suggestions on how educators can collaborate most effectively with parents and clinicians to maximize students' potential.
