JDS News, March 2014 issue contents
| ◆ | JDS Secretariat has moved to a new office in Otsuka, Tokyo. |
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| ◆ | General Poster for World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) 2014 |
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| ◆ | Events related to WDSD and Down Syndrome Awareness Month in March | |
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| □ | Dinner party for JDS members, “Step Forward Together” a commemorative event in Tokyo, and “Shifting Perspectives” a photograph exhibition from England | |
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| □ | Donation would be appreciated for WDSD related events |
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| □ | Other events to be held all over Japan |
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| □ | Awareness raising poster on Down Syndrome |
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| ◆ | Reporting on the 25th anniversary concert of JDS Gunma Branch “Culmination of 25 years of our activities” <Fumiko Nagashima, Gunma Branch> |
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| ◆ | Transition to a public interest incorporated foundation (vol.5) <Masanori Tanimoto, Welfare J United Corporation> |
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| ◆ | Adults with Down Syndrome: This is my life! Participating International Piano Festival for people with disabilities in Vienna <Ms. Tomoko Kawashima, Okayama Prefecture> |
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| ◆ | “We want to work at a hotel! We want to try it!” ~With the cooperation of Intercontinental Hotels Group~ |
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| □ | From Study tour to trial employment at ANA Intercontinental Hotel in Tokyo | |
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| □ | On-the-job trial at ANA Crown Plaza Hotel in Hiroshima | |
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| ◆ | High School Students facing the pre-natal testing (no.1) ~From the 16th Essay Contest at Surugadai Kofu High School in 2012~ “Pre-natal testing and the happiness of the family” <Ms. Eri Kobatsu (a sophomore student in 2012)> |
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| ◆ | The16th meeting of “Down Syndrome intervention group of Japn” will be held in Nara |
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| ◆ | Would you like to appear on the cover page of JDS News? |
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| ◆ | [Books] | |
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| □ | There is no life that is “better never to have been” ~on the pre-natal testing ~ | |
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| □ | A society that selects lives ~prenatal testing today~ | |
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| □ | The new pre-natal diagnosis and “selecting lives” | |
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| □ | Wailing House |
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| ◆ | [Copy of Newspaper Article] To remove “the first grade hurdle” |
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| ◆ | Infant Development Consultation No.221 My experience from consulting on eating (no.1) <Ms. Mari Igarashi, a consultation staff > |
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| ◆ | Photographs from the Seasons’ Greeting cards |
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| ◆ | Message from the Directors: January |
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| ◆ | Notes from the Office: 1/1~1/31 |
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| ◆ | Information Corner
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| *Three siblings of Ikeda family, taken from the new year’s greeting card, appeared on the cover page. | |||
JDS News, March comment on cover page
