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Down syndrome teen posed for her cheer team’s yearbook photo. When it published, she was left out.

Would an Organ Transplant be Denied for My Daughter?

After court ruling Down syndrome abortion bans gain traction

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Down syndrome teen posed for her cheer team’s yearbook photo. When it published, she was left out.

Morgyn Arnold spent her eighth-grade school year learning all her cheerleading squad’s routines while serving as its team manager. So when she recently got her middle school yearbook, Arnold excitedly flipped through it to find the photo taken of her surrounded by the team. But the 14-year-old girl from Utah, who has Down syndrome, was devastated to learn the photo was missing. In its place was a nearly identical version showing 26 Shoreline Junior High […]

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Would an Organ Transplant be Denied for My Daughter?

My daughter was born with a small hole in her heart. Such abnormalities are common in babies with Down syndrome, and we were lucky that her heart quickly repaired itself as she grew. Now as a third-grader, she rides her bike in our neighborhood on Saturday mornings, and she plays tag with her friends at recess. During those early days of her life as we faced an unexpected future, I could not have imagined what […]

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Teaming up to expand Alzheimer’s and Down syndrome research

Each year, about 6,000 American children are born with Down syndrome (DS), the most common chromosomal alteration. Adults with DS are at very high risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Virtually all adults with DS have brain changes consistent with AD by age 40, and a high percentage of them go on to develop dementia by their late 60s. But there is wide variation in age at dementia symptom onset, which suggests there are additional […]

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Regular Exercise Is More Important Than Ever For Children With Disabilities

Buxton Gitimu, 11, lives with his family in Huruma informal settlement, Nairobi. One of his favourite things to do is playing football with his brother Joseph. The boys are very close. Together, they race around a football field at Salama Primary School with their coach, practicing tackles and other moves. Afterwards, they do keepy uppies, counting to see how long they can keep the ball in the air. The football field is normally full of […]

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ACHIEVING A BETTER LIFE EXPERIENCE (ABLE) ACCOUNTS — 2021 Edition

INFORMATION ABOUT TAX-FREE SAVING ACCOUNTS FOR DISABLED INDIVIDUALS The Stephen Beck, Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience Act (ABLE) became law on December 19, 2014. The law aims to ease financial strains faced by individuals with disabilities by making tax-free saving accounts available to cover qualified disability expenses. IMPORTANT FACTS TO KNOW ABOUT THE ABLE ACT The designated beneficiary of an ABLE account is the eligible individual who owns the ABLE account. He or she […]

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Assistive Technology Help

YOU might say it all started with spell-check. In the 1980s, with the introduction of word processing programs like WordPerfect, it became apparent that computerized proofreaders could come to the rescue of struggling spellers and bad typists. Thirty years later, an ever-growing array of assistive technology is available to help students read, write term papers and take tests. From pens that can remember to text that can talk, such technologies are now being held up […]

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Dr. Rader Presented Move to Include Award

American Academy of Developmental Medicine & Dentistry (AADMD) presented the Move to Include Award to Rick Rader, MD, Director, of the Morton J. Kent Habilitation Center, Orange Grove Center on June 29, 2018 at the AADMD 1 Voice Conference in Seattle Washington. Dr. Rader was presented the award for believing and acting in the purest realm of the essence of “move of include,” believing in the sanctity, value and merit of “together,” and knowing that […]

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Heads Up for Vets: A collaboration between AKF and the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Epilepsy Centers of Excellence

Many of our brave servicemen and women are returning home from active duty with a new war to wage: a battle to control seizures and epilepsy. They were there for us…now it’s time for us to be there for them. Returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan have been exposed to blasts from IEDs (improvised explosive devices), land mines, rocket-propelled grenades and suicide bombers. Blast exposure has left too many of these troops suffering with Traumatic […]

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Down syndrome teen posed for her cheer team’s yearbook photo. When it published, she was left out.

Morgyn Arnold spent her eighth-grade school year learning all her cheerleading squad’s routines while serving as its team manager. So when she recently got her middle school yearbook, Arnold excitedly flipped through it to find the photo taken of her surrounded by the team. But the 14-year-old girl from Utah, who has Down syndrome, was devastated to learn the photo was missing. In its place was a nearly identical version showing 26 Shoreline Junior High […]

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