JDS News, November 2012 Issue Contents
- (JDS seminar for parents No. 2)
Seminar on support for decision making
<Mari Watanabe, member of committee on laws for supporting the handicapped people> - (reprint of newspaper article)
“No life is needless” – article by Aya Iwamoto with Down Syndrome (Kirishima City), being concerned about the new measure of prenatal diagnosis - (books)
“When words are born” <Aya Iwamoto> - About new measure of prenatal diagnosis
<message for people with Down Syndrome><message for expectant mothers> - (report on JDS national rotating seminar in Hachinohe, Aomori)
Souls of parents and supporting people were unified at the seminar
<Machiko Oda, JDS Aomori Hchinohe branch/Norihiro Ishii, Hopeful Nogiku-en/
Hiroko Seino, JDS Director> - (cover story)
Takahiro “continues” <Atsuro and Hiroko Nishimura, Kyoto> - (reprint) We see Takahiro enjoys playing the piano;
experience of being under the stress can be useful for his future - 11th World Down Syndrome Congress in Cape Town, South Africa: report No.2
- “Being proud of Down Syndrome”
<Takashi Tokida, film director/Satoko Nakagomi, professor of Yamanashi
Gakuin University>
Report on views of Government of Japan (1999)
on prenatal diagnosis was presented at the Congress - Report on current situation in Japan was presented at the Congress
- Me, my brother and Down Syndrome: film “39 thank you robbers band”
<Kousuke Oshida, film director> - (JDS Seminar on adulthood issues for parents No.3)
For better and happy adulthood life - Result of questionnaire: first grade of elementary school 2012 (3)
- (Infant Development Consultation No.207)
About toilet training <Hiroko Ueki, infant development consultant> - (books)
”Choose not to screen children: about prenatal diagnosis” - World Down Syndrome Day will be celebrated in Tokyo in 2013 again on 20 March!
- (Medical advice)
- Message from the Directors: September
- Notes from the Office: September
- Information Corner
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JDS News, November 2012, comments on cover page
Takahiro Nishimura (21 years old) and his sister (16 years old) in a big smile, having received a lot of bouquet and applause for their piano performance