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The Comprehensive Health Assessment Program is designed to help minimise the barriers to healthcare for people with intellectual disability, using a two part questionnaire tool.

This article by Dr Dennis McGuire discusses how people with Down syndrome may be especially aware of and sensitive to their immediate social environment.

This Voice article discusses advice about managing an extended stay in hospital with tips from families who have been there before.

This guide provides an overview of Down syndrome research by researchers at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.

This booklet by the Down's Syndrome Association (UK) covers puberty, changes in emotions and the body, love and relationships for young people with Down syndrome.

The Better Health Channel has information about talking to young people with intellectual disabilities.