Family Roles in Dealing with Down syndrome

The family has always got the vital role in dealing with Down syndrome. Any parents, brothers, or sisters play an important factor to help family members with this condition.

According to Alam Lawrence in The Telegraph, as a web designer, he released several pictures depicting a child flying. The ultimate meaning for this is that "anyone who suffers from the condition is not limited in what they can achieve", according to him.

Lawrence is very positive that the world can still be happy even with a child suffering from this condition. In fact, he already started a campaign through Kickstarter to raise money to manufacture and release calendars with the amazing pictures.

Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that can be passed on to generation. People suffering from this may have slight to moderate incapacity. This is caused by "Trisomy 21", or a copy of the 21st chromosome by the time the child is born.

In the data provided by Health Line, the statistic shows that 1 out of 700 babies suffers from this condition. When there are abnormal distributions of the chromosome to a child, it adversely affects the development of the brain and the infant's physic.

There are three identified types of Down syndrome in Medical history. The most common are Trisomy 21, mosaicism which tends for them to have fewer symptoms compared to the first one, and lastly is Translocation which means a child has one extra piece of chromosome attached.

Psychologist and child expert have strongly encouraged parents to accept their children having Down syndrome. They say the child is faultless as this condition is passed through generation.

Today, there are precautions to have an early detection. Doctors will be able to evaluate a woman through screening and series of interview and can provide information with the potential cases.