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Article: The language explosion. (language development; includes related article on how parents tend to speak to infants)(Special Edition: Your Child)(Cover Story)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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BARRY IS A PIXIE-FACED 3-YEAR-OLD WHO CAN'T yet draw a circle or stack his blocks in a simple pattern. There is little chance he will ever live independently. He may never learn to tie his own shoes. Yet Barry is as chatty and engaging a person as you could ever hope to meet. He knows his preschool classmates--and their parents-by name. When he wakes his mom in the morning, he strokes her cheek and tells her how beautiful she is. Then he asks her how she slept. Barry has Williams syndrome, a rare congenital disorder caused by abnormalities on chromosome 7. Children with the condition share an array of distinctive traits, including weak hearts, elfin faces and extremely low ...
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