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"We are recovering parents in tatters": the difficult Covid year for relatives with Down's syndrome

2021-03-19T20:34:41.393Z


TESTIMONIALS - Families of people with Down's syndrome testify to the difficulties caused by health restrictions.


In 2020, World Down Syndrome Day on March 21 fell a few days after the announcement of the first confinement, in a France in a state of amazement.

People with Down's syndrome and their families, usually in the spotlight on this date, felt very lonely.

A year later, with the approach of March 21, 2021, the results of this pandemic year appear very heavy, for the relatives of some 50,000 people with Down syndrome as for all families affected by disability.

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Separated, with sole custody of her three children, Emmanuelle had to face, alone, the closure of the medico-educational institute (IME) of her 11-year-old son, and of the school for her daughters of 7 and 13 years.

On March 17, overnight, she found herself locked up with her three children in her apartment in Lyon, on the fifth floor of a residence, without being able to move.

But the passion of his son Soren, affected both by an intellectual disability

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Source: lefigaro

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