“When he smiles our life is wonderful, we know better what happiness is.”<\/em><\/p>\n (There are) problems with interaction.<\/p>\n Sports such as swimming, riding, listening to the music, dancing and going to the sea.<\/p>\n GI problems, sleeping problems, interaction problems, difficulty to understand his disease, epilepsy, helping him be happy.<\/p>\n When he smiles our life is wonderful, we know better what happiness is.<\/p>\n To find a medicine to help him.<\/p>\n I feel that someone is trying to help us to better understand this gene.<\/p>\n They are very similar: GI problems, sleeping problems, hypotonia, epilepsy, language problems and so on.<\/p>\n Each child is different from another; the life is one and we must try to live at the best.<\/p>\n If there is a possibility to find a medicine against this mutation which could help them to live a better healthy life.<\/p>\n Not only problems but also opportunities they have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Desiree, Parent of Fabio, a 13 year old with a CHD8 genetic change “When he smiles our life is wonderful, we know better what happiness is.” What is your child\u2019s relationship like with his\/her siblings? (There are) problems with interaction. What does your family do for fun? Sports such as swimming, riding, listening to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":8279,"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\/9406"}],"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=9406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9407,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9406\/revisions\/9407"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is your child\u2019s relationship like with his\/her siblings?<\/h3>\n
What does your family do for fun?<\/h3>\n
Tell us about the biggest hardship your family faces.<\/h3>\n
What about your child puts a smile on your face?<\/h3>\n
What motivates you to participate in research?<\/h3>\n
How do you feel you are impacting our understanding of the genetic changes being studied in Simons Searchlight<\/span> (16p11.2, 1q21.1, or single gene changes)?<\/h3>\n
What have you learned about your child\u2019s condition from other families?<\/h3>\n
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
What is one question you wish researchers could answer about your child\u2019s genetic change?<\/h3>\n
Is there anything else you would like to share with other families?<\/h3>\n