{"id":5309,"date":"2019-06-19T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/?page_id=5309"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T16:33:24","slug":"alyssas-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/research\/what-we-study\/ctnnb1-2\/alyssas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By: Patrice, Parent of Alyssa, a 15 year old with a CTNNB1 genetic change<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Our kids have amazing drive and amazing courage.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>What is your child\u2019s relationship like with his\/her siblings?<\/h3>\n<p>Good! Her older siblings adore her.<\/p>\n<h3>What does your family do for fun?<\/h3>\n<p>Play board games, travel and watch movies.<\/p>\n<h3>Tell us about the biggest hardship your family faces.<\/h3>\n<p>My child is isolated from peers.<\/p>\n<h3>What about your child puts a smile on your face?<\/h3>\n<p>Her laughter and her strength.<\/p>\n<h3>What motivates you to participate in research?<\/h3>\n<p>To understand her syndrome and to hopefully help her.<\/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 her growth in everything thing she does.<\/p>\n<h3>What have you learned about your child\u2019s condition from other families?<\/h3>\n<p>That we share a lot of the same symptoms and the family with younger ones follow Alyssa\u2019s growth.<\/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>It will get better.<\/p>\n<h3>What is one question you wish researchers could answer about your child\u2019s genetic change?<\/h3>\n<p>Can we strengthen their weakness from the syndrome?<\/p>\n<h3>Is there anything else you would like to share with other families?<\/h3>\n<p>Our kids have amazing drive and amazing courage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Patrice, Parent of Alyssa, a 15 year old with a CTNNB1 genetic change &#8220;Our kids have amazing drive and amazing courage.&#8221; What is your child\u2019s relationship like with his\/her siblings? Good! Her older siblings adore her. What does your family do for fun? Play board games, travel and watch movies. Tell us about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":445,"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\/5309"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5311,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5309\/revisions\/5311"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}