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Welcome to DDSC
Dubai Down Syndrome Centre (DDSC) was founded to offer 5-18 year-old Down syndrome students a unique, special, and safe learning environment. We focus on independence, life/social skills, confidence, and self-esteem, and aim to be a place where students can explore, create, and express themselves.
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Our Educational Philosophy – SUNRISE
Special: Promote a creative, happy, fun environment inspired by every student’s unique needs, feelings, and wishes.
Understanding: Focus daily on the importance of socialization, inclusion, and independence of the student, offering activities to support this learning.
Need: Teachers work as a team, knowing that every day is new and special.
Rise: Invest in building a more socialized future in which students succeed and are recognized for abilities, not disabilities.
Inclusiveness: Show respect by recognizing the individual, welcoming diversity, and nurturing choice.
Social: Provide children a safe, welcoming, warm, hopeful, and empathetic learning environment, and offer parents constant communication and absolute honesty.
Education: Teach by enhancing and sharing our skills, experiences, knowledge, and wisdom.
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Our Values
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Meet Our Team
Professionals with Experience and Passion on work with Determined Ones
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Mrs. Ladimari Toledo Hoeppler, PhD
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Ms. Sasha Marie S. Diosay
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Mr. Blessing Peter Gobvu
Music Teacher
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When you focus on someone’s disability you’ll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally.
Just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
Having Down syndrome means nothing to me, I’m special like everyone else. I do not let people judge me for having Down syndrome. The important thing is how I feel about myself. On the inside, I feel beautiful.
When you judge someone based on a diagnosis you miss out on their abilities, beauty and uniqueness.
There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.
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Contact Us
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