Greater Expectations Living with Down Syndrome in the 21st Century

This is the book I'd want to read if I had has a child with Down syndrome. It's the book I'd recommend to parents who already have a child with Down syndrome, or for who prenatal testing has indicated Down syndrome, and they are wondering what on earth the future holds. As a scientist working in the area of child health, I would also recommend it to all those people teachers, health professionals including doctors, and policy makers who work with people with disabilities or who make the decisions which affect them.Professor Fiona Stanley AC,atron, Down Syndrome Association of Western AustraliaA lot of books on Down syndrome cross my path, but I started reading this one and couldn't stop. Jan Gothard's fascinating, wide-ranging research opens a window onto families' lives and show us, dramatically, just why we can have greater expectations for people with Down syndrome in the twenty-first century.Michael Berube,Paterno Family Professor in Literature, Pennsylvania State University and author of Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child

Jan Gothard is an associate professor in Australian history at Murdoch University and a former editor of the Oral History Association of Australia Journal. She is the author of Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia, which won the Western Australia Premier’s Prize for History, and the general editor of the Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia. She is also the recipient of the Australian government’s Centenary Medal for services to literature and to society. Fiona Stanley, MD, is a professor in the School of Pediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia and the Chair of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth. She is also the founding director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and the UNICEF Australia Ambassador for Early Childhood Development. She has more than 300 published papers in scientific journals.