Williams_Syndrome

Williams Syndrome Williams Syndrome is one of the rarest forms of Mental Retardation. An estimate 5,000 to 25,000 people in the Untied states alone have this disease, which is sometimes called Elfin-face Syndrome. The disease, like any form of mental retardation, isn’t a pleasant one. With it comes the obvious learning disabilities, heart problems (often a narrowing of the aorta), and more. However, it’s one of the view that has a positive note to it. Many WS kids are blessed with musical talents that would make members of *NSYNC blush. Also, when it comes to approaching strangers and starting a conversation, not only are they unafraid, they’re bound and determined to do it. Williams Syndrome is caused when one of the copies of chromosome 7 is missing a small portion, which contains at least 16, maybe even 30 genes (Bower 2000). WS kids all tend to have similar facial features, so much so that no matter the age, many could be twins. These facial features include a small upturned nose, a long upper lip length, wide mouth, full lips, small chins and puffiness around the eyes. WS kids with blue and green eyes also have ws, williams, kids, syndrome, child, one, others, it’s, even, same, own, once, often, small, living, different, can’t, asked, animals, age, able, while, vocabulary, uncommon, tie, they’re, themselves, speaking, shoes, sentence, saying, retardation, quite, problems, people