Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
So, in 1976, Burns along with a few collaborators, established the Genetic Counselor Program at UW-Madison.
This clinic specialized in the diagnosis and care of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) – a service not easily found in the late 1960s.
This study examined alignment of language choice of 44 Spanish-English bilingual child-parent dyads in a naturalistic context to determine whether bilingual children and their parents respond to each other in the same language(s) across conversational turns, and whether children’s language ability and children’s and parents’ language dominance affect language alignment.
The end goal is to build a collection of information for multiple disorders, the first one being Down syndrome.
Without access to communication, people are isolated and frustrated and can end up having very different life experiences. If we can establish communication for a variety of individuals using alternative tools and techniques, and in so doing, increase that individual’s quality of life, I think it’s a pretty substantial impact…
CMT is a slowly progressive disease in contrast to ALS, which affects the same neurons in the peripheral nervous system.
AT(N) biomarker profiles and Alzheimer’s disease in People with Down syndrome
Several months after Ella’s first birthday, she received her diagnosis of Rett syndrome. “It was devastating, life changing. It’s rare – we hadn’t heard of it before we started this journey and it’s a very difficult diagnosis to process,” Jennifer says.
Early language skills are one of the best predictors of academic, social, vocational outcomes.
Families and their children with intellectual and developmental disabilities often face many barriers to getting accessibility to exercise.
