{"id":1914,"date":"2024-12-03T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2024-12-04T10:39:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:39:42","slug":"congress-highlights-easy-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/2024\/12\/03\/congress-highlights-easy-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Highlights – Easy Read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Congress Highlights – Easy Read<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Down Syndrome Australia was excited to host the World Down Syndrome Congress 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Congress was in Brisbane from July 9-12.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nearly 1,000 people came from over 45 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a week of presentations, social activities and performances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Over 120 people with Down syndrome also went to the Self-Advocates Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Congress began with an opening ceremony. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a Welcome to Country, a flag ceremony, and speeches.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The co-chairs of the ceremony were Claire Mitchell and Ruth Faragher. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They did a great job!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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At Congress over 200 speakers spoke about<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • speaking up for yourself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    It was great to hear the personal stories of people with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    There were also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      On the last day, there was a closing ceremony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      We heard that the next World Down Syndrome Congress will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2027.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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      The best part of Congress was meeting friends from around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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      Down Syndrome Australia was excited to host the World Down Syndrome Congress 2024. Find out more in Easy Read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"729,1240,836,1626,1098,360","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}