Welcome to the home-page of
"Study-group Down syndrome e.V.",
D-27308 Kirchlinteln, Am Schäferhof 27,
district of Verden, Lower Saxony, Germany,
(Telephone + 49 42 36/9 41 01, Telefax + 49 42 36/9 41 02)
This website exists since january 1996. You are since
21.9.98 the 
. visitor.
If you have just become a parent of a baby with Down syndrome
please select our
Welcome-page
We are a self-help group (parent cooperative) of parents having a child
with Down syndrome (no longer in use but also
known under the term "mongolism"). Members of our group come from different
places in and around Bremen, Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Achim, Verden, Rotenburg,
Soltau, Fallingbostel, Rethem und Hannover.
We have regular meetings every month.Our main
topics are the development and the problems of our handicapped children.
Some of them visit special institutions,
others
attend regular kindergartens and state schools though in forms of
individual integration or special integration classes.
Information on "Study-group Down syndrome e.V.":
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If interested in our meetings call + 49 42 36 - 9 41
01.
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If you are interested, please ask for our brochure "Information
for parents and friends of a child with Down syndrome" (only available
in German).
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Especially in hospitals we try to help parents of a new-born baby with
Down syndrome to get over the initialfeeling of pain or being left alone.
So we have left our contact address and our information brochure in every
hospital in our area.
Major projects of our group
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Besides our monthly meetings we organize additional meetings and lectures
on "Down´s syndrome". For these occasions we invite lecturers specialized
in this field who lecture about their scientific or clinical research and
their experience. Our guest speakers so far:
Dr. Storm, Paderborn, - "The development of children with Down syndrome".
Prof. Dr. Etta Wilken, Hildesheim - "The development of speaking abilities".
Dr. Mehl, Bremen, social pediatric centre.
Dr. Kutscher, Verden
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We also have regular meetings together with our children. The youngest
are only a few months old, the oldest are already in their teens. As our
interests diverge widely, we have chosen contact persons for each age-group.
We are well-equipped with German books about this subject
which are available for study purposes to everybody interested.For a survey
list select this page!
If a Physician having faced the problem of informing parents
about the handicap of their new-born child pleaseselect first
information of physicians about Down syndrome.
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The picture story "The Inseparables or The Adventure
of Paul, Paula and Pauline" tells in sympathetic language about Down
syndrome happens.
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Look to a doll with Down Syndrome.
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Do you like software for children with Down Syndrome?
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If you are interested in contacting other German regional self-help groups,
please select page listing contact addresses and
telephone numbers.
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If you are looking for other world-wide
info-pages about Down syndrome (with search engine) you will find important
addresses under above entry.
You can reach us under
My name is Wilfried Liebetruth.
Sorry, if you must wait some time for an answer to your request, but I
can do this work in my freetime only.
Look to Kirchlinteln!