{"id":991,"date":"2020-04-22T16:13:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/?p=991"},"modified":"2020-05-31T20:20:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T10:20:04","slug":"i-do-have-rights-to-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/2020\/04\/22\/i-do-have-rights-to-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I do have rights to stand up&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The full article is available in the following formats<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Click to download<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background has-primary-background-color no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Idohaverightstostandup_Voice_April2020_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background has-primary-background-color no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Idohaverightstostandup_Voice_April2020.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WORD<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leticia Hodson <\/strong>is the managing editor of Voice and in this article she shares the perspective of a young man with Down syndrome who was a victim of sexual harassment through digital media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While being filmed for another project, the young man spoke candidly with Leticia about an incident that had left him rattled. Leticia was moved by how powerfully this affected him and believes this perspective is rarely seen or heard from in the community. The young man and his family graciously agreed to share this story and their identity has been withheld for privacy reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>header photo credit: Pruscilla DuPreez via Upsplash<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Social media and online safety<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/social-media.png\" alt=\"Social Media and Online Safety\" class=\"wp-image-993\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Late last year, Down Syndrome Australia released a new and comprehensive guide for people with Down syndrome and their families to help navigate the safe use of social media and online platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This resource is available in the resources section of our website and is free to download here: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DSASocialMediaandOnline_Safety_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Social Media and Online Safety<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This guide covers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>what personal information is and how to keep it private<\/li><li>an overview of the different ways of accessing the internet such as email, online banking and social media<\/li><li>an overview of the common social media platforms that people use<\/li><li>how to stay safe online including information about cyberbullying and cybercrime<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article we share the perspective of a young man with Down syndrome who was a victim of sexual harassment through digital media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":992,"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":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","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\/991","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}