Downside Up
Director: Anna Portulagova, anna@downsideup.org
Website: www.downsideup.org
Downside Up provides support and advice for families with Down syndrome children. Central to its mission is to continue to develop its Early Intervention Programme in which innovative training systems & techniques have helped over 1,500 families from all over Russia. All of these programmes are offered to families, free of charge.
This project employs many professional staff including special needs teachers, speech therapists, psychologists and motor-cognition specialists, all of whom ensure the best possible care is offered to students and their families.
Downside Up is committed to disseminating information amongst Russian healthcare professionals. They believe that this, in addition to providing realistic support for families, will help to stem the flow of Down syndrome children into the State care system.
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Other ARC Projects
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ARC is funding the construction of a further wing at this Tuberculosis Sanatorium, which will treat very small children aged 12 months to 3 years.
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Early diagnosis, physical rehabilitation & educative support for children with special needs.
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Provides support & education for socially deprived children & young people in the Chertanovo district of Moscow.
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Provides top-up education for young people who have been through the State orphanage system.
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Supports single-parent families and disadvantaged children in Moscow.
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Rehabilitation centre for children with special needs. They also run a successful hippotherapy riding centre.
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A small musical theatre company for young people and adults with Downs syndrome.
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Project works with young people who have been through the State care system of children’s homes and internats.
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The essential mission of Krug is to work towards the integration of children & young people with special needs and their families, into Russian society & culture.
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Sunny Dogs is an independent NGO that selects and trains special dogs that will become either guide dogs for the visually impaired, assistance dogs for the physically disabled or therapy dogs for children with special needs.
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A Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Special Needs, they also run a busy and successful hippotherapy riding centre.
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ARC is funding a two-year course of UK-practitioner methods of physiotherapy-ergotherapy, led by Dr Klochkova & a team of specialists from The Mechkinov Academy in St Petersburg.
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Led by Kit Loring, The Ragamuffin Project provides Creative Arts Therapy to children as well as training, clinical supervision & professional consultation to adults