{"title":"Increasing opportunities for physical activity.","authors":"Sue Buckley","doi":"10.3104/updates.2033","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Being physically active can have a number of benefits - having fun, meeting with friends, keeping healthy and experiencing success. For children with Down syndrome the foundations need to be laid early if they are to keep active in school, teenage and adult years and parents ask for more help in this area from professionals.</p>","PeriodicalId":80275,"journal":{"name":"Down's syndrome, research and practice : the journal of the Sarah Duffen Centre","volume":"12 1","pages":"18-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"10","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Down's syndrome, research and practice : the journal of the Sarah Duffen Centre","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3104/updates.2033","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Being physically active can have a number of benefits - having fun, meeting with friends, keeping healthy and experiencing success. For children with Down syndrome the foundations need to be laid early if they are to keep active in school, teenage and adult years and parents ask for more help in this area from professionals.