During this month’s Down Syndrome Collaborative meeting, Stephanie Smith Lee (Policy & Advocacy Co-Director of the National Down Syndrome Congress) presented on disability rights and supporting new and expecting parents. Stephanie Smith Lee discusses the progress and challenges in disability advocacy, from the the signing of the ADA in 1990, Read more…
For this month’s Medical Outreach Meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith presented on how to create and share electronic release forms. Creating a Release Form Release forms help providers share patient information with advocacy organizations, and give advocacy organizations a clear pathway to communicate with families. Having both print and electronic release Read more…
For this month’s Medical Outreach Meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith presented on how to support families with financial need and how this benefits your medical outreach program. Social Determinants of Health Finances fall under the umbrella of social determinants of health (SDOH) – non-medical factors that affect health outcomes and can Read more…
For this month’s Medical Outreach Meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith presented on how to form and collaborate with a medical advisory team. Watch a recording of this meeting below and read on for a summary and helpful links! How to Find Medical Advisory Team Members Professionals that may be helpful to Read more…
The Down Syndrome Collaborative supports new and expectant parents from pregnancy through age 3 with key partners in the Down syndrome community. In this month’s Down Syndrome Collaborative meeting, Kate and Lily Meredith present on their experience growing up with their older brother, Andy, who has Down syndrome. The Sibling Read more…
For this month’s Medical Outreach Meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith presented on translating resources to other languages such as Haitian Creole. Watch a recording of this meeting below and read on for a summary and helpful links! Finding Existing Resources In this meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith demonstrated how she looks for Read more…
In this week’s Medical Outreach Meeting, we discussed how to communicate with different cultural groups in your area. Watch a recording of this meeting below and read on to access helpful links! New Languages added to Understanding a Down Syndrome Diagnosis In today’s meeting, we announced that Understanding a Down Read more…
Last week, we held our first Medical Outreach Meeting meeting of 2025! In this meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith presented on how to apply for CMEs and CEUs for presentations or webinars. Dr. Meredith shared a number of helpful tips and tricks for successfully applying for professional education credits, including: Join Read more…
Happy New Year from all of us at Lettercase! We are looking forward to another year of developing and translating resources, carrying out new and exciting research, and providing training to providers and advocacy leaders. We are also excited to see and learn from the new and ongoing accomplishments of Read more…
This week, we held our last Medical Outreach Meeting meeting of 2024! In this meeting, participants shared their incredible progress and successes in 2024, and Dr. Stephanie Meredith led a discussion on meeting topics for 2025. Participants who shared their medical outreach successes include: Possible Medical Outreach Meeting topics for Read more…