Every day, successful people with or without a disability contribute in any way to make the world a better place. Many of them have proved that “Down Syndrome is not a disease, but another personal characteristic” (Pablo Pineda). Pablo Pineda is a Spanish actor who received the Silver Shell award in 2009 at the San Sebastián International Festival. Pineda is known for being the first person with DS who obtained a bachelor’s degree in Europe. Pineda has a bachelor’s degree in educational psychology while he works as an actor, writer, and speaker. Pineda’s current job is to give presentations at conferences where he demonstrates the social inclusion of people with any kind of disabilities.
Cases like Pablo Pineda happens more frequently than what society imagines. Differences between a person with DS and a person without it are not too significant. A person with DS is more likely to have depression, social withdrawal, diminished interests, and coping skill. Anxiety and obsessive
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Intelligence quotient is a score from a standardized test which assess human intelligence. The first I.Q. was created by Alfred Binet, who was a French psychologist, that created this test to determine the population of students and the difficulty they would have at school. This test was modified in 1916 by Lewis Terman who used it in the American population, specifically, American soldiers. The I.Q. comes from the equation dividing the mental age by the chronological age and multiply by a hundred. The average I.Q. of a person with Down Syndrome rages from seventy to eighty compared to the I.Q. of the general population which is seventy to hundred and thirty (Global Down Syndrome Society). Still, there are many people with DS who are smarter than a “normal” person. There is the occasion of an anonymous person who got a I.Q. of 110 having Down Syndrome; a score higher than what a “normal” person could