The National Down Syndrome Society is a site with great stuff.

• An area for people with Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities to chat, post articles and read information of interest to them personally.
• Information on causes of Down syndrome. (If you don't remember your high school biology well, you probably will have trouble understanding this. For those of you who do have a modest science background, it is a good explanation.)
• Articles on Down syndrome from every perspective - if you never really understood what was meant by a 'human interest' story, you will after reading some of the articles on this page. You'll find stories from Down syndrome students in college to a high school student who has published two songs and dreams of being a singer.

Just poke around the site. If you have any interest at all in Down syndrome, you will learn a lot and find it very interesting reading.

Another well-known organization is the National Down Syndrome Congress. Their website has an enormous amount of information on (what else?) Down syndrome. We particularly liked the following:

• Latest news stories. There are not a lot of places to buy newspapers and magazines around the Spirit Lake Reservation, and those stores have a limited selection. Anything that appeared in the news on Down syndrome, whether in the Wall Street Journal or the Cincinnatti daily paper can be found here.
• Resources for parents of a new baby with Down syndrome. From the emotional to the practical, you will find it here.