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1.Characteristic symptoms of Angelman syndrome

• Hand flapping.
• Speech problems.
• Hyperactive behaviour.
• Stiff-legged walking style.
• Jerky, puppet-type movements.
• A child easily moved to laughter.
• Loving, happy and social demeanour.
• Delayed motor development, such as delay in sitting, crawling and walking.
• Intellectual disability. A child with Angelman syndrome will have delayed development in all areas, and disability is severe in most cases.

2.Symptoms that are sometimes present in Angelman syndrome

• Small head.
• Epilepsy which occurs in 80 per cent of Angelman syndrome patients.
• Characteristic EEG(electroencephalo- graph) abnormalities.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 at 2:33 pm and is filed under Angelman Syndrome.