Iris Publishers-Current Trends in Clinical & Medical Sciences| Comparative Study of Supporting Services for Children with Down’s syndrome and Their Families: Perspective of United Kingdom and Bangladesh
Authored by Mohammad Kamrujjaman, Introduction Down syndrome (DS) is a genetic condition that results in some level of learning disability and a particular range of physical characteristics. Learning disability can affect a person to learn very new things into their every aspect of their life including at school [1]. Therefore, children with DS can have difficulty in learning new things, understanding information, communicating properly, confronting a complex situation, and/ or coping independently. In addition of learning disabilities, children with DS may have various kinds of health-related problems such as CHD (Congenital Heart Disease), vision problems, hearing loss, infections, hypothyroidism, blood disorders, poor muscle tone, sleep disorders, gum or dental problems, epilepsy, digestive problems, mental and emotional problems, and so on [2]. Hence, a different type of supporting services like educational, emotional, financial, recreational rather than medical services...