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Health Topics & Down Syndrome

“Two Dates a Day Keep the Doctor Away”

  Lisa:  One hallmark “symptom” of Down Syndrome is low muscle tone. Hypotonia is manifest throughout the body in most people with Down Syndrome.  Arms and legs may be floppy, especially during the first few weeks after birth as physiological flexion dissipates. In the absence of feeding strategies aimed at tongue retraction, the tongue begins …