Williams Syndrome Web Watch: The Times Herald - Local mom details experience raising son with Williams Syndrome

The Times Herald - Local mom details experience raising son with Williams Syndrome:

"Children with Williams syndrome will perform these friendly acts naturally, and willingly, while making each person they’re greeting feel like the man of the hour."

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Williams Syndrome

Identified more than 40 years ago, Williams syndrome occurs in an estimated one in 20,000 births worldwide. It arises from a faulty recombination event during the development of sperm or egg cells. As a result, almost invariably the same set of about 20 genes surrounding the gene for elastin is deleted from one copy of chromosome seven, catapulting the carrier of the deletion into a world where people make much more sense than objects do. Despite a myriad of health problems and a generally low IQ, people with Williams syndrome are loquacious, sociable, and very empathetic.

Williams Syndrome Web Watch

Monday, January 16, 2012

The Times Herald - Local mom details experience raising son with Williams Syndrome

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