Education in down syndrome

Down syndrome students have mild to moderate IQ levels.These kids should be imparted education under inclusive set ups.As Inclusive set up gives opportunity to interact and communicate with normal kids. Encouragement is an important aspect of education.The focus of education is never to highlight brilliance but to provide an environment which helps them attain basic knowledge which can help them live with confidence and make their living.Learning disabilities if strategically handled can give real good results.A qualified special instructor can be an asset for such kids.His experience can set guidance children with down syndrome.These kids have good short term memory.They quickly pick up things and retain for small time,if the same thing is continuously practiced with them then there are higher chances they retain the knowledge gained.Interaction is most important to derive more and more output.Somehow in case of  the children with down syndrome they have less concentration power.They get distracted soon.Study place should always have minimum distractions so that educator can put in maximum effort.

Initially it takes more time for such kids to absorb the concept but once they develop interest and learn maximum out of time.The capability of child is not the genes or IQ ,actually it is the effort that is being poured in.Small activities should be targeted that get finished  soon.The interesting they are the easily they perform.While explaining or giving commands the clarity of speech should be clear from our side.The important commands should be given stress and slowly pronounced .firm behavior while giving commands  is must.In UK and America lot of research is being done on intellectual growth.Researched educational material is being provided which really helps to support these kids in mainstream educational system.