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.
Research
Fit Families makes exercise accessible to children with disabilities
Families and their children with intellectual and developmental disabilities often face many barriers to getting accessibility to exercise.
Utilizing AI to Better Understand the Genotype-Phenotype Connection
There are thousands if not millions of steps to get from genotype, your genetic code, to phenotype, your physical attributes.
A Pediatric Prognosis
Here’s how it typically works. A parent brings their child to their pediatrician, concerned about a potential mental health condition — maybe it’s anxiety, or maybe it’s depression.
UW effort to map Down syndrome brain raises prospect of treatment for disorder
In a lab near UW Hospital, Megan Jandy grows stem cells from people with Down syndrome — 10 batches of cells, most in three-dimensional clusters, each batch featuring one group with the extra chromosome that causes the disorder and one group without it.
Genomics and genetics cluster hire brings expansion into new research avenues
Tiny but mighty is a good way of describing our genome – the collection of our DNA. Although not visible to the naked eye, the human genome holds around 21,000 genes and millions of DNA variants, containing the information needed to maintain an organism throughout its life.
New app aimed at increasing accessibility to machine learning analysis techniques
A new app developed at the Waisman Center makes it easier than ever for researchers to use machine learning techniques to analyze large complex data sets without specialized or specific training.
New study to help illuminate issues for aging autistic adults
A new study from researchers at the Waisman Center and The Ohio State University will investigate aging in autistic adults.
A parent-mediated physical activity intervention helps autistic kids acquire fundamental motor skills
Autistic children show lower physical activity and fundamental motor skills such as running, jumping, or throwing compared to non-autistic children.
The beginnings and evolution of brain imaging at the Waisman Center
The development of brain imaging techniques has helped us understand emotion, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases in ways we could not before.