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  • Group or SIM Name: Tom's Place
  • Is this a Group or a SIM?: SIM
  • Purpose: help people better understand Down Syndrome
  • Location (SLURL) (if sim): ReactionGrid
  • Contact Information: Pam Renoir
  • Services Provided (information, support, meetings, resources, other): support
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    • Has since moved off Linden Lab's grid and over to the ReactionGrid.
    • Welcome to Tom’s Island. I set up this little corner of SL to help people better understand Down Syndrome – a genetic condition that is found in approximately one in 733 live births. The island is named after my son, Tom, who was born with Down Syndrome in 1995 and is now one of about 350,000 in the U.S. who have Down Syndrome
    • Notecard in SL :
      • The following Web sites have an enormous amount of information about Down Syndrome. After learning about what Down Syndrome is, you can continue on to read about our family’s experience raising a child with Down Syndrome.


        National Down Syndrome Society
        http://www.ndss.org

        National Association for Down Syndrome
        http://www.nads.org/

        National Down Syndrome Congress
        www.ndsccenter.org/

        Link to Down Syndrome Associations Around the World
        http://www.imdsa.com/dsa.htm



        Down Syndrome Information Network
        http://information.downsed.org/

        The Down Syndrome Educational Trust
        http://www.downsed.org/

        Directory of Down Syndrome Internet Sites
        http://www.downsyndrome.com



        Many new parents are encouraged to read the following passage written by a woman who was asked what it is like to find out your baby has a disability.

        Welcome to Holland
        By Emily Pearl Kingsley
        http://www.ndsccenter.org/resources/package1.php.
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Entrance to Tom's PlaceVisit the grotto and take a ride in the saliboat


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