Featuring DVDs On Down Syndrome

Down Syndrome DVDs

Unfortunately at this point there are very few DVDs for children with disabilities. I would really like to hear from anyone if they know - or wish to produce information on DVD, that would help children & parents with special needs. Let’s begin with an overview of this subject..Down syndrome (also called Down's syndrome)

encompasses a number of genetic disorders, of which trisomy 21 (a nondisjunction) is the most representative, causing highly variable degrees of learning difficulties and physical disabilities.

This genetic disorder was named after John Langdon Haydon Down, the British doctor who described it.

Of the inborn disorders that affect intellectual capacity, Down syndrome is the most prevalent and best studied. Down syndrome is a term used to encompass a number of genetic disorders of which trisomy 21 is the most representative (95% of cases). Trisomy 21 is the existence of the third copy of the chromosome 21 in cells throughout the body of the affected person.

Other Down syndrome disorders are based on the duplication of the same subset of genes (e.g., various translocations of chromosome 21). Depending on the actual etiology, the learning disability may range from mild to severe, Learn More