The text explains what Down' Syndrome is and the available educational and rehabilitative therapies. Parents, teachers, and other social operators can contribute to the physical and intellectual development of people afflicted by Downs' Syndrome, thus helping them achieve autonomy and a degree of educational and occupational integration.

Stefano Vicari teaches Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology at the Maria SS. Assunta University in Rome and directs the Neurology and Rehaibilitation Service of the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Santa Marinella (Rome).