Here are some major milestones in the Down syndrome community that have shaped us into who we are today….
2015 –DSI hosts its 18th
Annual Buddy walk
2014 – Down Syndrome Indiana hosts
National Down Syndrome Congress National Convention
2008-
Board votes to change name to Down Syndrome Indiana, Inc.
2002 – DSI D.A.Ds founded
1999- Olmstead
Decision & deinstitutionalization
1996- DSI
receives official tax status as Indiana Down Syndrome Foundation
1996 – Down Syndrome Indiana hosts its
first Buddy Walk®
1995- NDSS
holds the first Buddy Walk®
1994 – The Indiana Down Syndrome
Foundation is founded
1990- Mapping
of the human genome begins
1990- The
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law under President
George H. W. Bush
1989 – Life Goes On featuring, Chris
Burke, an actor with Down syndrome begins airing
1986 - Emily
Pearl Kingsley publishes, Welcome to
Holland
1984 – Dr. Charles Epstein introduces his research with the
Trisomy 21 mouse
1984- Baby
Doe Rulings
1981 – Down syndrome Medical Checklist
introduced in our community
1979 – The National Down Syndrome
Society is founded
1975- The Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA) was signed into law under President Gerald Ford
1973- The National Down Syndrome Congress is founded
1969- The
first Special Olympics games in Indiana were played
1968 – First Special Olympics games
were played
1960 – The first Down syndrome parent
group is founded in Chicago
1959 – Dr. Jerome Lejeune discovers that Down syndrome is
a third copy of the 21st chromosome
1866 – John
Langdon Down fully describes what we now call, Down syndrome
