You may associate people with Down syndrome as looking the same and sharing characteristics but each person is different. One characteristic that people with this condition share is an intellectual disability and this can be quite moderate which means that some people may have a severe speech problems (Genetics Home Reference, 2012). Overall people with this condition could have up to 50 characteristics but most people only end up with a few. Here are some of the more common ones below:
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Down Syndrome