... degree of mental retardation, or cognitive disability and other developmental delays. Individuals with Down syndrome have distinct physical characteristics; generally they are more similar to the average person in the community than they are different. The physical features are important to the physician in making the clinical diagnosis, but no emphasis should be put on those characteristics otherwise. Not every child ... offer support and counseling to the family. There are, however, situations when children with Down syndrome need special attention. 1. 60 to 80 per cent of children wi...

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... theorized that patients without trisomy 21 have a lesser threshold level for these abnormalities than patients who do have the disease. Sixty to eighty percent of children with DS also have hearing deficits. Brain-stem auditory evoked potentials were examined in 37 adult patients with Down syndrome and in 37 age-matched normal subjects. All absolute and interpeak latencies except for the ... fathered a child in England (Barbiero 344). Today people with DS live at home with their families and are active members in the vocational, educational, recreational and social activities of the com...

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