Links to other sites of interest.

Below you will find a link to the Beckwith-Wiedemann Family Chat Forum. There you can contact other families who are dealing with BWS. The support and information these families can give is extremely helpful to families who need to know they aren't alone in this. This resource is absolutely free. Please join us!

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If you'd like to visit the discussion group before joining, you can do so by following this link: Beckwith Wiedemann Family Chat Forum

 

Medical Stuff
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome - OMIM
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome - Peb Base 
 

More Support/Information/Resources For Parents
Genesis Fund
Internet Resources for Special Children
PDP Products Online Store - products for

oral-sensorimotor development
Surgeon Database for Tongue Reduction Surgery  
Dutch BWS Web Site

UK BWS Web Site

Groupe de discussion du syndrome Beckwith Wiedemann

Italian BWS Web Site

Keep Kids Healthy.com

Social Security Administration Benefits for Children

with Disabilities Booklet

What you need to know when you get SSI

Medicaid

Medicaid Waiver Programs

National Respite Locator Service

Journal Articles and Lectures
Pediatric Liver Tumors
Beckwith Wiedemann Syndrome - The Pediatric Bulletin
Abdominal Wall Defects
Hemihypertrophy 
Macroglossia
Genetics of BWS:
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American Journal of Medical Genetics 79:253-259 (1998). (abstract)

 

Kid's Stuff
About Teasing About Teasing
BandAides & Blackboards BandAides & Blackboards
The Bearable Times Kids and Teens Club The Bearable Times Kids and Teens Club
Kid Care Kid Care
Kids Health.Org Kids Health.Org
Nava's Story Nava's Story
Taryn's World Tyler's Story
Trevor, Wilm's Tumor Trevor, Wilm's Tumor

Hospital Information
The Toronto Hospital For Sick Children
St Louis Children's Hospital
Virtual Children's Hospital

 

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this page last modified: Friday April 06, 2007