He abandoned his belief in phrenology after 10 years of study and turned his back on the view that a person’s character and intelligence could be deduced from the outer appearance and shape of his or her head.Down’s contemporaries were also sceptical of his theories and started to use the term “so-called Mongolian idiot” in medical papers.
The presence of this extra part of chromosome 21 causes some Down syndrome characteristics.A person with a translocation does not have any special physical features, but they are more likely to have a child with an extra chromosome 21.A person with Down syndrome can do many of the things that other people do. Her visit is captured in the documentary and provides a spirited portrayal of the Mongolian people. The National Institute for Child Health and Human Development urge all specialists to provide stimulation and encouragement.Children with specific learning and development difficulties may be eligible for educational support, either in a mainstream or specialized school.In recent years, the tendency has been to attend mainstream schools, often with additional support to help them integrate and progress.Some children will make use of an Individualized Education Program (IEP), which various specialists will support.The most common form of Down syndrome is called trisomy 21. The results showed her chances of having a child with Down syndrome were very slim, odds of 1 in 1,600. After a number of tests , she and her husband, Howard, were informed that their newborn, Billy, had an extra chromosome, and he was diagnosed with Down’s syndrome.The couple were devastated. People who have the condition will receive care for any health problems, as other people do.However, healthcare professionals may recommend additional health screening for issues common to the condition.Physicians, special educators, speech therapists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists, as well as social workers, can all help. After becoming a member of the United Nations in 1961, it joined the World Health Organisation in 1965 and asked for the term For Ramsay, it was difficult to live in a country where the name for her native people was also an offensive slang term. “It made me feel uncomfortable and upset,” she says. There are no records which suggest that anyone of the Mongolian race was ever treated at Earlswood.Later, Down doubted his work. “But in Mongolia we don’t face that issue as everyone is a Mongol here,” Tsedevdamba points out.Now, Ramsay wants to put an end to the slang use of “I don’t want the word to be banned, but I want people to know you use Mongol in the same way as you would refer to a Scot, a Turk, a Pole,” she says in the documentary.“We can unlearn negative connotations because we learnt them. When they were finally able to go home, a doctor took Ramsay to one side. かつてはヨーロッパを中心にMongolism（日本語では、蒙古症（もうこしょう））と呼ばれ、黄色人種に特有のものとの偏見が広がった。これはヨーロッパにおいて白人の子どもであるにもかかわらず、当時1961年に19名の著名な遺伝学者が「Langdon-Down anomaly」「Down's syndrome anomaly」「congenital acromicria」、または「trisomy 21 anomaly」の用語を用いるべきとの声明を発出したことを契機に、蒙古症の語は次第に使われなくなった1961年から2011年までの医学論文において、用語として使われた数は以下の結果であった（歴史について記述した論文を除く）。 She wasn’t sure what they meant and she laughed it off.Then when she started working as a careers adviser in Scotland, she heard children throwing around the word “I tried to find out why they were saying this, but my colleagues avoided explaining it to me,” she says. Then at night, you can see the most stars there.”Ramsay’s son Billy lived until he was only three months old. Even though I knew they meant to be helpful.” It was yet another in a long line of associations made by strangers between Ramsay’s native people, the Mongols, and a slang term for someone with a disability.She was 19 when she first became aware of an alternative meaning for Mongol.