Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
The Saturday dinner and concert at the Grand Exposition Hall at the Silver Legacy Resort Casino was expected to be a major fundraiser for the foundation that helps children with neurogenetic disorders including Williams Syndrome, Down Syndrome and autism.
kerux noemata (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Williams Syndrome Web Watch: Louisville Benefit for Williams Syndrome Association : "'Check your diets at the door and enjoy a sampling of 10 desserts to raise funds for the Williams Syndrome Association. The all-day benefit will be from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday at Sweet Surrender Dessert Cafe in Crescent Hill. Williams Syndrome is a rare...
Smooth Pebbles (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
In "The Gregarious Brain," my NY Times Magazine story last year about Williams syndrome -- in which a genetic accident causes an intriguing combination of cognitive deficits and hypersociability colored by a lack of social fear and (to some extent) savvy -- I devoted some space to the "social brain" theory," which holds that we humans developed our big brains -- and perhaps language itself...
A New Band A Day! (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
Williams Syndrome is a brain disorder. Those who have it often display likable symptoms - extraordinary love for music, unusual communication skills and a general happiness, whilst lacking in common sense and predictability. Today's New Band, Oreaganomics , personify all these things, playing fast, loose and carelessly with all the noise they've just realised is at their disposal. So...
