Real life Down Syndrome Awareness
This is such a sad time in the social history of Down Syndrome. Not only were the lifesaving heart surgeries that we now see performed almost routinely on our children with severe heart defects not … [Continue reading]
Up until the 1980's here in the United States, it was common practice for parents to be told that institutions were best suited to rear their children who had been identified as having Down Syndrome. … [Continue reading]
Up until this point, John Langdon Down had received all of the notoriety, after all he first identified the common characteristics (mostly physical ones) that go along with the syndrome. However, … [Continue reading]
To Test or Not to Test for Down Syndrome Last year, the news of Iceland’s low rate of babies born with Down syndrome brought the subject of prenatal testing to the forefront of discussions … [Continue reading]
Did you just read that? 9 Years old! I have to deduce that the reason for this greatly reduced life expectancy just 88 years ago was because many children born with Down Syndrome have other health … [Continue reading]