disabilities and genetic disorders

1. Disabilities and genetic
disorders

2. paralyzed
This can happen because of injury or disease.
Some people can still move their arms and
hands.
The nerves connecting his brain and his arms
and legs arm damaged somewhere.
This man is in a wheelchair.

3. microcephaly Less than one in 1000 babies has
this.
They have a very small brain.
They usually don’t live long and
cannot speak or move much.
Zika may be a cause of this, but
not the only one.

4. Thalidomide babies In the 1950’s many
pregnant women took a
medicine called
thalidomide to help them
sleep.
It made their babies have
very bad birth defects.
After that, the FDA (Food
and Drug Administration)
became more careful
about medicine.

5. A disease that turns muscle to bone

6. Tourettes syndrome
People with
tourettes syndrome
cannot control their
speech and body
movements
sometimes.
This boy is swearing
in class.

7. chimerism This woman had a twin
sister when she was inside
her mother.
She ABSORBED ซึมซับ the
twin in to her body, and
now has the DNA of two
people inside her.
Her skin has two different
colors because of this,
and she gets sick often
because her body thinks
she has a parasite.

8. Harlequin Ichthyosis
Their body makes too
much skin.
If they don’t scrape
the skin off very
often, they will die!

9. albinism
People with albinism have
no pigment or color in their
skin.
They often have problems
with their eyes, and get
sunburned very easily.

10. Her bones break like glass.
A problem with her DNA
makes her bones very
weak. She has broken
many, many bones.
The doctors told her
parents they should get
an abortion, but they did
not.

11. Out of control foot calluses
• This man and his brother have a DNA problem that makes skin on
their feet grow really fast. They have to do this every week.

12. dwarfism
This girl is 18 years
old but weighs only
about 15 kg.
She will probably
have a short life.

13. Hallermann-Streiff Syndrome

14. Nager Syndrome

15. Skin is burned by sunlight
These people are called
“moon children” because
they cannot go out in the
daytime.
Vlad the Impaler-
The real Dracula.
He may have had
this disease.

16. This girl cannot feel pain.
This is really dangerous,
because if we cannot feel
pain, we do not know when
something is wrong with
our body.

17. This woman can write on her skin just by
touching it!
About 2-5% of all
people can do
this. Maybe you
know someone
that can!

18. Siamese twins
Scientists think it happens when an egg
doesn’t completely split into two eggs.
More than 50% of Siamese twins die
before or shortly after birth.

19. Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins
• They were Thai, but lived in America and were very
famous in the 1800’s
• They worked for the circus
• They married two women who were sisters
• They had 21 children and now have 1500
descendants
• They shared a liver
• They died

20. Born with two heads
Both heads were alive and had
a working brain.
Doctors did surgery to remove
the second head. The second
head was putting too much
stress on the heart.
The girl has brain damage now
but she is alive.

21. Eyegaze talker
Some people cannot talk
or type.
This machine lets them
type with their eyes!

22. Neurofibromatosis
Her body is covered in tumors.
Everyone in her village is
afraid of her.
It is a genetic disorder.

23. Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
People with this genetic problem have a
problem with collagen in their joints and skin.
They usually cannot walk when they are older.

24. Hemophilia เลือดไม่หดตัว If you have hemophilia, it is difficult for
your blood to clot.
The family of Queen Victoria of England
had many people that had hemophilia.
Many died from it.

25. Cerebral palsy
About 2 out of 1000
people have
cerebral palsy.
They cannot easily
control their
muscles and
movement, but
their mind is the
same as other
people.

26. Down syndrome
Down syndrome is
caused by a problem
with chromosome 21.
People with down
syndrome are usually
smaller, and have low IQ
They live shorter lives.
In some countries,
mothers have an
abortion if they know
their child will have
down syndrome.

27. Handicapped parking
You need a special permit to
park in a handicapped parking
spot.

28. Special olympics