As a mother, you send your children off to their first day of kindergarten with pride, anticipation and excitement. But a part of you can't shake those nagging questions: Will they make friends? Have someone to play with at recess? Be bullied?
Works by self-taught artists and those with schizophrenia and Down's syndrome are being presented in a gallery in Turin, brought together under the umbrella of "Outsider" art.
Jason and Amanda Purnell met while getting their Ph.D.s in psychology at Ohio State, married in 2007, and were ecstatic when Amanda became pregnant shortly before they moved to St. Louis last July to be near family. Then they learned that their 22-week-old fetus had Down syndrome. They were shocked -- at 29, Amanda was well below the at-risk age to conceive a baby with this condition. "The first 24 hours, I was inconsolable," she says.
Lee Robinson wasn't all that excited about having a baby. It's not that she didn't want one, it's just that she and her husband, Claude, were happy with their busy lives in Thomson, Georgia, where she's a high school teacher and he's a caterer.
Sarah Palin fires back at the writers of "Family Guy" for a joke apparently directed at her son, who has Down syndrome.
Sarah Palin has awesome power. We already knew that she had the power to drive liberal Democrats crazy. They don't respect her, but they sure do fear her.
A ballet class in Boston brings the joy of movement and dance to special-needs children. CNN's Bob Crowley profiles it.
It's early on a Saturday morning, and Sarah Markowitz limbers up before her dance class begins.
When Katy Wilson was born with Down syndrome, doctors told her mother that the infant likely would never walk or talk.
The Alaska governor is thankful for her child who was born with Down syndrome
New book reveals Palin thought that not disclosing her condition would prevent unwanted attention
A German doctor is denied residency in Australia due to his son's Down syndrome. Seven Network's Alicia McMillan reports.
Australia's immigration minister has granted permanent residency to a German family whose application was twice denied because their 13-year-old son's Down syndrome was deemed a drain on the country's health system.
Marget Wincent has never met Sarah Palin, but she hopes the Republican vice presidential candidate will respond to her recent e-mail. Wincent said she encouraged Palin, whose son Trig has Down syndrome, to "get that little guy on skates when he's a couple years old, and enjoy those snowmobile rides."
A growing body of research suggests that men's fertility declines as much as -- if not faster than -- that of women
In a PEOPLE interview, the GOP candidate reveals initial doubts about her ability to raise a special needs child
The 44-year-old Governor of Alaska talks to PEOPLE about her boys and her beauty pageant days
For parents with three small kids -- Michael is 4, Jack's 3, and Anthony is 2 -- Lisa and Mike Spellman are surprisingly calm people. From the jumble of bright plastic toys, to the family pictures on every table, to the five baby gates in the downstairs alone, it's obvious that they've happily surrendered to parenthood. Lisa (a former attorney, now an at-home mom) and Mike (a neuroradiologist) take it all in stride, even when the volume in their Nashville house approaches deafening.
A hospital administrator has been detained on suspicion he helped to supply patient information to militants about the mentally challenged women thought to have unknowingly carried out two bombings, the U.S. military says.
Life was proceeding as planned for Ravinder Dhallan, or so it seemed. Having earned doctorates in medicine and biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, he had just started a radiation oncology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. On the home front Dhallan and his wife, Hejung Christine Chang, had a daughter, and they were eager to see their family grow.
Delivery rooms tend to be noisy and joyful places.
Amniocentesis, a common prenatal test that involves sticking a needle into the mother's womb, is dreaded by many because of its risk to the fetus, but a diagnostic company hopes to eliminate that risk by developing a urine test that would detect Down syndrome in fetuses.
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