{"id":327209,"date":"2025-03-06T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=327209"},"modified":"2025-03-05T23:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:51:58","slug":"mom-speaks-down-syndrome-daughter-art-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-speaks-down-syndrome-daughter-art-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom speaks out after daughter with Down syndrome is denied access to art class"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to reports, a nine-year-old girl with Down syndrome was recently denied access<\/a> to an art class, and her mother is now speaking out.<\/p>\n

Katie Jameson had signed her daughter Kenzie up for a class with 4 Cats Art Studio, and said she would stay with Kenzie to act as her support person. She was hopeful that Kenzie would be participating in a class of children her own age.<\/p>\n

“We are looking for an experience for her to be alongside peers, where she could feel happy and included and feel joy doing something that wasn’t in our house,” Jameson told CityNews Vancouver. “I offered to join my daughter and sit alongside her to facilitate an accessible support so that she could participate. The next day, I got an email back stating that because of her need for a support person, she was not allowed to attend class.”<\/p>\n

Instead, the studio suggested that Kenzie join a weekend class designed for families, not specifically children her own age. The studio said it was not equipped to support children with specific needs, like Down syndrome, and that Jameson’s presence there would disrupt the class for the other children.<\/p>\n

Jameson was disheartened.<\/p>\n