HeyJaredDown Syndrome Center Podcast
This podcast contains information for caregivers and providers regarding Down syndrome. Hosted by Dr. Kishore Vellody, Medical Director of the Down Syndrome Center of Western Pennsylvania and former President of the National Down Syndrome Congress.
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#233 - Survey Assessing Health (opens the original)
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Health is more than just medical diagnoses and lab tests. Dr. Stephanie Santoro joined the podcast today to discuss a new health survey that her team created to assess the health of people with Down syndrome. To participate in this online survey, go to https://redcap.link/DSHM . If you would like to suggest a topic for us to cover on the podcast, please send an e-mail to DownSyndromeCenter@chp.edu . If you would like to partner with the Down Syndrome Center, including this podcast, please visit
#232 - Approach to Physical Therapy in Younger Children with Ds (opens the original)
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Physical therapists Ginny Paleg, Roslyn Livingstone, and Helen Milligan joined the podcast to talk about their approach to physical therapy in younger children with Down syndrome. They drew upon the published review article that can be found here https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29630564/ . They discussed the "6 F-Words" of therapy: fitness, functioning, family, fun, friendships, future. If you would like to suggest a topic for us to cover on the podcast, please send an e-mail to DownSyndromeCent
#231 - Role of Communication in Social Engagement (opens the original)
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Sarah Bookout is a Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist at GraySpeak Therapy. She attended the University of Texas at Austin where she received her bachelor's degree in communication sciences and disorders in 2018 and her master's degree from the University of Northern Colorado in 2020. Her career involves helping those with Down syndrome achieve speech clarity and independence. She has discovered a passion for working with teens and adults with moderate to severe speech and language disorders
#230 - Memory Retrieval in Down syndrome (opens the original)
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Dr. Jaclyn Ford is a Research Assistant Professor in the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (https://Bclearningmemory.com) in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College. Her research examines the effects of emotion and social relevance on memory retrieval processes, focusing on how individual differences in retrieval goals and context may modulate these effects. She utilizes behavioral and neuroimaging methods to characterize these changes in an attempt to bette
#229 - NDSC Policy Summit (opens the original)
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The National Down Syndrome Congress (NDSC) is having a Policy Summit September 29-30, 2026 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel and Capitol Hill in Washington DC. And YOU are invited to be there! NDSC Policy Team members Heather Sachs, Jawanda Mast, and Adrian Forsythe joined the podcast today to talk about this amazing event. For more details on the Summit, go to https://ndsccenter.org/policy/ndsc-down-syndrome-policy-summit/ . To join the National Down Syndrome Advocacy Coalition (NDAC), go to https://n
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