Quotes About Down syndrome

I think it's important for people to see how much more people with Down syndrome can get out of life when given responsibilities.

Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.

For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized in the very early sixties. Me, being just a small boy and being shuffled around between my mother and grandparents, I never knew her.

Lots of people with little kids or babies with Down syndrome tell me they aren't afraid of the future for their child because of what I am doing to help people understand it better.

My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get more Down syndrome children, but he had lots of scientific interests.

Since when do the media care about the disabled? I don't remember a lot of gnashing of teeth when Fox's Family Guy made fun of Sarah Palin's Down syndrome child, Trig. They

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel."

Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.

I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.

I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!

There is probably a promising drug candidate that has already been discovered for the treatment of Down syndrome that is sitting on the shelf of some drug company.

Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.

They have cracked souls," she said. "You know how some people are born with physical defects? Like those sweet Down syndrome babies. I think some people are born with souls that aren't all there. Or maybe their souls got a crack somewhere along the line. Like a broken leg, only it's a soul.

There's been a sea change in our ability to understand and treat Down syndrome," said Mobley. "There's just been an explosion of information. As recently as the year 2000, no drug company would possibly have thought about developing therapies for Down syndrome. I am now in contact with no less than four companies that are pursuing treatments.