Ms Aileen O'Donovan:

One comment about social integration I would make is that much of the wider community nearly pity us for having a child with Down's syndrome. We struggle every day to meet the challenges and the needs of our children but we have a great life as well. One should not take that away from us at all. Thankfully, that old-fashioned pity is disappearing, but there are still some areas of social integration that will never change.