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During a routine visit to the supermarket, Calvin meets "Produce", the fruit and vegetable boy with Down syndrome. Joyful and eager to help, Produce uses his job to build personal connections with shoppers. After meeting Calvin, Produce confronts his dark depression with a burst of joy through his knowledge of produce and his love for people.
First major character with Down syndrome on a television series, portrayed by a person who also has Down syndrome. Chris Burke: Yes [42] 2018 Penny Stevenson: Doctors: She was born with a right arm that ends just below the elbow. Cerrie Burnell: Yes [43] 1994 Kerry Weaver: ER: Limp in her gait due to congenital hip dysplasia: Laura Innes: No ...
The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a novel by American author Kim Edwards that tells the story of a man who gives away his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to one of the nurses. Published by Viking Press in June 2005, the novel garnered great interest via word of mouth in the summer of 2006 and placed on the New York Times Paperback ...
Where Hope Grows is a new film about a retired baseball player who is down on his luck and having trouble raising his teenage daughter until he meets a young man with Down syndrome who lifts his ...
About 5,700 babies are born with Down syndrome each year in the U.S., and over 400,000 people in the country currently live with it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Down syndrome does not define Molly or our family. Down syndrome has been a part of our life for the past 14 years and perhaps our life is a little different than the path we expected, but we ...
The average IQ of a young adult with Down syndrome is 50, equivalent to the mental age of an 8- or 9-year-old child, but this number varies widely. [3] At the same time, they enjoy a rich social and emotional awareness. [4] Down syndrome is the most common chromosome abnormality in humans, [3] occurring in about one per 1000 babies born each ...
John C. McGinley and his son Max at the Global Down Syndrome Foundation's 14th Annual Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show at the Sheraton Downtown Denver Hotel on Nov. 12, 2022 in Denver