Steve Palmer's blog about his son Stanley - who has Down's Syndrome - & the extended family.

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Proud family - Xmas show

I’ve held back from writing this because I don’t want it to be too mushy. Oh, alright then; a proud family was in the audience to see Stan perform in the Xmas show last week. His fantastic cousin was in the front row, gesturing all of the actions. This was, however, the only help he needed. Stan was on stage, but vitally, without a learning support assistant ~ and he was fantastic. It was a real “If I’d have known on the day he was born” moment. And a great advert for mainstreaming education (for those that want it). It was a brilliant moment; there wasn’t a dry eye in our family. (alright, his bro was cool about it).

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Family Guy

Family Guy has been made famous by Sarah Palin who complained because it has a character with Down’s in it. The actor is Andrea Fay Friedman. I saw a small part of an episode the other night and Andrea was back in it. What a brilliant way to cover learning disability. Great script.

Thursday, 28 October 2010

Trisomy Films presents 'Up Syndrome'

These films are great - they appear to have been made about ten years ago but only edited and You Tubed recently............

Film one

Film two

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Touchdown's

Last Friday the Snohmish Panthers lost to the Lake Stevens Vikings 35-6. Ike Ditzenberger, a junior, scored the only points for Snohmish on a 51 yard touchdown run in the closing seconds of the game.

On instructions from their coach, Vikings defenders not only let Ditzenberger score, but made the play look real with several diving attempts that always came up just a little short of stopping Ditzenberger's emotional run.

Watch the film here

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