Genetically transmitted disease Down syndrome Down syndrome is a genetically transmitted disease‚ the symptoms of this disease can vary depending on the person‚ but children with Down syndrome have unique physical characteristic traits for example: decrease in muscular tone‚ excess skin around the nape‚ widened nose‚ among others. Some mental characteristics are: impulsive behavior‚ short periods of attention and slow learning. Some of the disease’s effects are: pulmonary hypertension
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capability of adolescent and adult participants with Williams Syndrome to obtain conceptual change concepts with an empirical approach. These 10 participants with William Syndrome were compared to a few groups of normal developing children with respect to biological knowledge about people‚ animals and plants. The experiment’s final results ended in an engrossing sum of information that effected in the participants with Williams Syndrome being differentially impaired on conceptual change for construction
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Azariah Parks 08 February 16 Genetics Noonan Syndrome is a genetic disorder that causes a person not to develop properly in various areas of the body. These defects can occur in different areas‚ such as facial characteristics‚ heart defects‚ short stature‚ development delays and skeletal malformation. Symptoms from those areas can cause a person to have abroad or webbed neck‚ minor eye problems‚ abnormal bleeding‚ an unusual chest shape‚ which is often seen at birth‚ and late puberty particularly
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The disease I chose was compartment syndrome because it’s very rare‚ fewer than 20‚000 US cases per year. Compartment syndrome is when a very dangerous and very painful condition cause from pressure builds up from internal bleeding or swelling of the tissues‚ the pressure decreases blood flow‚ depriving muscles and nerves of needed nourishment. The cause of this disease is often causes by injury‚ such as a fracture‚ that causes bleeding in a muscle which then causes increased pressure in the muscle
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Reeflection Front Of the class: How Tourette Syndrome made me the teacher I never had‚ allowed me to know about an actual child’s life growing up with Tourette’s. While reading the book I actually felt the emotions he was feeling all his life growing up. It is incredible to know all that a child can do regardless of what is happening with them. Brad the main character of the book proves that rather you have a disability or not‚ what matters is how you set your mind to want to do things and complete
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Edwards Syndrome‚ also known as Trisomy 18‚ is a genetic syndrome of severe to profound mental retardation. It is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome 18 in some or all of the cells in the body. Babies with this condition typically do not survive but for a few months after birth. About sixty percent of newborns with this condition die within the first week‚ and eighty percent do not survive through the first month
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Asperger syndrome is a disability which is similar to autism‚ where people see the world in a different perspective and interact with others differently. You are born with the syndrome and have it for life as there are no cure or treatment to this disability‚ however are series of strategies and approaches to help the people. What are the main difficulties that people with Asperger syndrome encounter? People with Asperger syndrome‚ have resembling difficulties as people with Autism‚ such as having
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The bottle Syndrome: Learn what to watch! Many children acquire a bad habit to drink their milk in the bottle and immediately after sleep without having washed their teeth. As explains pediatrician Dr. Spyros Mazanis‚ mothers succumb to this "requirement" child of ignorance in order not to lose the habit to drink their evening milk. Of course not excluded that this practice is and during the daily meals accompanied by sleep. This habit can cause serious and irreversible damage to the milk teeth
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Everyone knows about Autism‚ and Down syndrome‚ and mental retardation‚ but why not savant syndrome? Well actually most of you have heard about it. You have all heard of Kim Peek‚ or at least sort of. Kim is an autistic savant with eidetic memory (the ability to recall images‚ sounds‚ or objects in memory with great accuracy
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Fragile X syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects a person from birth. Fragile X syndrome can differ from case to case in the severity of the disorder. Many people that suffer from Fragile X have long‚ narrow faces‚ large ears‚ and tend to be double jointed. Fragile X‚ whether you have the syndrome or not‚ affects the everyday lives of many. There are many things that people can do to support people with Fragile X and make it easier for individuals that suffer from this disorder to cope with
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