21 Plus is here to provide support for family members, carers, friends, and professionals, supporting children and young people with Down’s syndrome.
Our mission statement:
21 Plus educates, empowers and supports children and young people with Down’s syndrome and their families.
Our core purposes are:
We aim to provide a full support network for the families within the Down’s syndrome community in Monmouthshire, Bleanau Gwent, Torfaen, Newport, southern Powys and surrounding areas.
If you are interested in joining us and live within these areas please get in touch.
Meet the team running 21 Plus.
What is 21 Plus Talk Time? Talk Time is a speech, language and communication group for children with Down’s syndrome. It is run by our expert “Symbol” trained co-workers, who provide a very ...
Talk About is a youth group for young people with Down’s syndrome aged from 11-19. These sessions currently run fortnightly. During these sessions there is an hour of communication-focused ...
21 Plus provide local, accessible training for parents, carers and professionals. We are passionate about ensuring that our training is accessible to as many people within the local Down syndrome ...
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19th October 2023
We held our 7th summer day camp at the Sport Wales National Centre in Cardiff from the 24th - 28th July this year. All 21 participants attended each day from 9:30am to 3:15pm, took part in a range of activities and received specialist speech and language therapy input from three Symbol UK therapists who attend for the whole week. Daily group sessions focus on a variety of communication skills and some target topic vocabulary for the week; children also ...