{"id":4958,"date":"2019-05-23T10:38:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T14:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/?page_id=4958"},"modified":"2019-09-30T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:22:27","slug":"emmas-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/research\/what-we-study\/16p11-2-duplications\/emmas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4959 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/23063620\/Emma-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/23063620\/Emma-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/23063620\/Emma-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By: Megan, Parent of Emma, a 10 year old with a 16p11.2 Duplication<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Stand up and be a voice. Advocate!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>What is your child\u2019s relationship like with his\/her siblings?<\/h3>\n<p>Emma loves her younger sister Bella! They are the best of friends always making up games and role playing together<\/p>\n<h3>What does your family do for fun?<\/h3>\n<p>We hang out in the pool, ride bikes, go on little adventures.<\/p>\n<h3>Tell us about the biggest hardship your family faces.<\/h3>\n<p>Understanding what Emma goes through with her duplication.<\/p>\n<h3>What about your child puts a smile on your face?<\/h3>\n<p>Her personality is so caring and artistic<\/p>\n<h3>What motivates you to participate in research?<\/h3>\n<p>To help other get information to help them with their child.<\/p>\n<h3>How do you feel you are impacting our understanding of the genetic changes being studied in <span class=\"notranslate\">Simons Searchlight<\/span> (16p11.2, 1q21.1, or single gene changes)?<\/h3>\n<p>By doing the questionnaires you are learning so much about how this affects each person and how different each person and their duplication is.<\/p>\n<h3>What have you learned about your child\u2019s condition from other families?<\/h3>\n<p>I have learned about possible stomach issues that many are facing and that my daughter is having.<\/p>\n<h3>If you could give one piece of advice to someone recently diagnosed with the genetic change in your family, what would it be?<\/h3>\n<p>Stand up and be a voice. Advocate!<\/p>\n<h3>What is one question you wish researchers could answer about your child\u2019s genetic change?<\/h3>\n<p>What is her future like?<\/p>\n<h3>Is there anything else you would like to share with other families?<\/h3>\n<p>Don&#8217;t stop fighting and ask questions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Megan, Parent of Emma, a 10 year old with a 16p11.2 Duplication &#8220;Stand up and be a voice. Advocate!&#8221; What is your child\u2019s relationship like with his\/her siblings? Emma loves her younger sister Bella! They are the best of friends always making up games and role playing together What does your family do for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":162,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4958\/revisions\/4960"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}