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Mental Retardation

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Most children with The Williams Syndrome have mental retardation. In young children this is a disadvantage on motor development in the field. They reach a little later than usual milestones such as walking, talking and be clean. Especially when the school is often combined with weak concentration of activity, a problem. In the field of language and speech, long-term memory and social skills of children performing well. Many children experience fun listening to and working with music. The children have a good sense of rhythm and tone and they are all fast songs. In other areas such as fine motor skills, coordination of movements and spatial understanding their performance is weaker.

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The Williams Syndrome

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

The Williams syndrome (also known as the Williams-Beuren syndrome) is a condition that you, like so many other people probably have not heard before. What does it mean? What can we expect? What these children need? These are but a few questions that parents and professionals will deal with a child when the diagnosis is made. This site has some information available, but obviously this is not everything. In some places it is also indicated where further information can be found. (more…)

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