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Down Syndrome: The Facts
This lucid guide provides advice and reassurance for parents of children with Down syndrome. It is unique in its positive approach, reflecting the change in attitude towards those afflicted with the disease. The book includes useful information on raising Down syndrome children at home, as
well as the many other choices that are now open to parents. Also covered are the role of early intervention, special health checks, learning alternative treatments, work, marriage, and reproduction.
well as the many other choices that are now open to parents. Also covered are the role of early intervention, special health checks, learning alternative treatments, work, marriage, and reproduction.
214 pages, Paperback
First published March 8, 1990
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February 29, 2016
What makes this happen? How can we cope from this? What will others think? What is a good resort to help the child? Well Down Syndrome the Facts by: Mark Selikowitz grabbed my eye once I started reading it. Who doesn’t want to know the life of someone with Down Syndrome? As a teenager, imagining what could happen in the future, using the “if” factor. Wanting to know what I can do to help my child if they do have a genetic disorder. This book helped me putting myself in realization on what a genetic disorder is and what is one type of a genetic disorder. As being a father of a child with a genetic disorder and has been studying the major genetic disorders, he offers the knowledge of both sides of how to manage a disorder clinically and at home.
Not really knowing what Down Syndrome was, this book explains everything about the child with the disorder and the families affected by the disorder. This interesting part of a child’s life before it begins, understanding the difficulties and facing what withholds in the future. The dangers, growth rate, learning rate, and speech capabilities all come down though certain therapies. Down Syndrome is caused by three different types. Telling the siblings is like telling someone they got a puppy, shocked and amazed. Marriage, work, and having children could be questionable.
This is aimed for anyone, this book gives the detailed information most books cannot give. The interaction and the reminder that everyone is the same, although there is complication where someone needs more attention than others. The difference of “normal” and “non-normal” is the little extra from the inside.
Not really knowing what Down Syndrome was, this book explains everything about the child with the disorder and the families affected by the disorder. This interesting part of a child’s life before it begins, understanding the difficulties and facing what withholds in the future. The dangers, growth rate, learning rate, and speech capabilities all come down though certain therapies. Down Syndrome is caused by three different types. Telling the siblings is like telling someone they got a puppy, shocked and amazed. Marriage, work, and having children could be questionable.
This is aimed for anyone, this book gives the detailed information most books cannot give. The interaction and the reminder that everyone is the same, although there is complication where someone needs more attention than others. The difference of “normal” and “non-normal” is the little extra from the inside.
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