Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that emerges in early childhood and frequently persists into adulthood. People with DLD have significant difficulty learning, understanding, and using spoken language. Under U.S. Public Law 101-476 (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [IDEA], 2004; first issued in 1990 and reissued in 2004), children may be eligible for …
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Klinefelter syndrome (KS) is a sex chromosome variation caused by the presence of one or more supernumerary X chromosomes. Common clinical phenotypes of KS are comprised of tall stature with a feminine body type, gynecomastia, small testes and infertility. Cases of KS with genital differences as the main evaluation in childhood are rarely disclosed. We …
Continue reading Recognition of Genital Differences Among Some 47XXY Infants
The hypothalamus–pituitary–gonadal axis (HPG) during mini-puberty in boys with KS has been evaluated by several investigative groups and “all” possible results recorded: above normal, below normal or indistinguishable from normal (Aksglaede, Petersen, Main, Skakkebæk, & Juul, 2007; Lahlou, Fennoy, Ross, Bouvatier, & Roger, 2011; Ross et al., 2005). None of these studies has enough boys …
Continue reading Exogenous Testosterone is not a requirement of 47XXY’s at Mini and Pre‑Puberty
If you are a Doctor And consider yourself an expert in all things XXY, then you will never learn anything about us. Adult XXY's often have adversarial relationships with physicians. If you have a patient like that, don't take it personally, it's probably because the medical community has treated us so badly for the last …
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Scientists have developed a molecular "clock" that could reshape how paediatricians measure and monitor childhood growth and potentially allow for an earlier diagnosis of life-altering development disorders. The research, published this week in PNAS, (Full Study) describes how the addition of chemical tags to DNA over time can potentially be used to screen for developmental differences …
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This could be a typical XXY experience, albeit without an additional diagnosis. Of note, the article is well researched with an abundance of additional resources that we are sure you will find helpful. DCD is a lifelong disorder that cannot be explained by a general medical condition; there is no definitive answer as to what causes it …
The Department of Experimental Psychology (EP) at the University of Oxford would like to invite your child to be part of this study investigating how we understand conversation. The project is looking at how children understand conversations. We know that vocabulary and grammar are important in understanding conversation, but social communication is likely to depend on more …
At the XXY Project we are anti anything that depicts Chromosome Variations of any description as being abnormal because what they're describing is not the natural variation these differences are but rather something that's broken and something that needs to be fixed. Medical Science, Clinicians and the like are steadfastly stuck on the notion that …
Had he been practising some forty years ago, pediatric endocrinologist David Cooke’s profile of patients who are 47XXY would have differed sharply from today’s view. Then, late-adolescent boys would have comprised most of Cooke’s patients. Now, with amniocentesis and prenatal karyotyping more routine, however, Cooke, as the pediatric endocrinologist with the Johns Hopkins Klinefelter Syndrome Center, …
Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN The Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe commissioned this study to identify potential areas of heightened concern for the rights of children that may be unfavourably affected by scientific advances and uncertainties in biomedicine. This report is the result of that study. It provides substantive illustrations of the diversity of …
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