Planning a Future For a Child with Down Syndrome

Friends and family of children with Down Syndrome often find social networks like Facebook to be a wonderful forum in which to share information, interesting experiences with their children and, ultimately, to express their doubts and sometimes, even their insecurities about a myriad of issues. Recently, when viewing one such page, we came across an interesting question posed by the mom of a toddler with Down Syndrome called Ryder. While Ryder’s mother had already set up savings account for the future University and car expenses of her older children, she wondered how to plan financially for Ryder’s future. She said that she was unsure why she had not yet started a savings fund/established a special needs trust for him, and asked advice from followers of her page as to what steps they had taken – the answers were as swift as they were helpful.