{"id":5189,"date":"2019-06-05T11:08:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/?page_id=5189"},"modified":"2019-09-25T15:28:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:28:25","slug":"coopers-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/research\/what-we-study\/pacs1\/coopers-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By: Misti, Parent of Cooper, a child with a PACS1 genetic change<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Be still, be patient and prepare yourself for your life to change.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>What is your child\u2019s relationship like with his\/her siblings?<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s very sweet most of the time and others coppers behavior can be aggressive provoked and unprovoked.<\/p>\n<h3>What does your family do for fun?<\/h3>\n<p>Recently visited a petting zoo , however Cooper was more interested in the planes in the sky and and cars passing by.<\/p>\n<h3>Tell us about the biggest hardship your family faces.<\/h3>\n<p>Outings and the public&#8217;s perception of Cooper and finances.<\/p>\n<h3>What about your child puts a smile on your face?<\/h3>\n<p>His character and sweetness about him.<\/p>\n<h3>What motivates you to participate in research?<\/h3>\n<p>To learn more and educate others.<\/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>I try my hardest to understand your version but is much easier when presented in an elementary type layout of the gene change.<\/p>\n<h3>What have you learned about your child\u2019s condition from other families?<\/h3>\n<p>I have learned that our children do not represent The old saying &#8221; no child is alike &#8221; our children are so much alike in so many ways&#8230; and helps to know we are not alone on this journey.<\/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>Be still, be patient and prepare yourself for your life to change.<\/p>\n<h3>What is one question you wish researchers could answer about your child\u2019s genetic change?<\/h3>\n<p>Can his misspell be corrected ?<\/p>\n<h3>Is there anything else you would like to share with other families?<\/h3>\n<p>Be present<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Misti, Parent of Cooper, a child with a PACS1 genetic change &#8220;Be still, be patient and prepare yourself for your life to change.&#8221; What is your child\u2019s relationship like with his\/her siblings? It&#8217;s very sweet most of the time and others coppers behavior can be aggressive provoked and unprovoked. What does your family do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":534,"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\/5189"}],"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=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5190,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5189\/revisions\/5190"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}