“At the hospital, doctors and nurses kept saying, ‘She doesn’t look like she has Down syndrome,’” Melissa McLean, 39, who is Emma’s mother, tells TODAY.com.

We live in a time when the world is striving to be more “woke.” Buzzwords like diversity, equity, inclusion, and ...

Down syndrome communities have built strong followings on social media, using well-known hashtags like #DownSyndrome and #DownSyndromeAwareness to connect and share their stories.

Down syndrome, which causes a range of developmental differences and affects 1 in 700 newborns in the United States, is caused by the presence of an extra copy of chromosome 21. Mongkolchon ...

Leah Spring's fifth child was born with Down syndrome, and as she dove into the community, she and her husband learned about children in Eastern Europe who shared the same diagnosis.