Kids with Down syndrome can live 'abundant lives,' dad tells Fox News contributor

Each twelvemonth connected March 21, World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) marks a planetary time of consciousness and acquisition astir the familial condition.

The extremity is to "help radical recognize and enactment those with Down syndrome better," according to the initiative's website. WDSD has been officially observed by the United Nations since 2012.

On Friday, Fox News contributor Tom Shillue headed to Times Square successful New York City to talk with New Yorkers astir their consciousness of WDSD. (See the video astatine the apical of this article.)

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Shillue spoke with Daniel Schreck, president of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation, a planetary nonprofit focused connected probe and advocacy for radical with familial intelligence disabilities.

Daniel Schreck, president of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation and begetter of a girl with Down syndrome, spoke with Fox News contributor Tom Shillue connected World Down Syndrome Day. (Fox News)

Schreck besides has a girl with Down syndrome.

When asked astir communal fears oregon misunderstandings astir the condition, Schreck spoke of the perceived limitations. 

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"I deliberation the astir important happening is that if you person Down syndrome, conscionable similar immoderate different disability, you tin unrecorded an abundant beingness and there's thing to beryllium acrophobic of," helium said.

"Plus, radical with Down's syndrome are the happiest radical you've ever met. So there's thing to beryllium acrophobic of."

Daniel Schreck's daughter, Rose, has Down syndrome. "people with Down's syndrome are the happiest radical you've ever met. So there's thing to beryllium acrophobic of," Schreck told Fox News' Tom Shillue. (Daniel Schreck)

The day of WDSD, the 21st time of the 3rd month, was chosen to commemorate the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome, which is the origin of Down syndrome.

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Schreck joked that the other chromosome "makes you happier."

The day of WDSD, the 21st time of the 3rd month, was chosen to commemorate the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome, which is the origin of Down syndrome. (iStock)

His son, Danny, besides joined the speech to talk astir his sister, Rose.

"She's truly amusive to beryllium around. It's benignant of weird to spot everyone other compared to her, wherever she's conscionable truthful blessed and everyone other is conscionable walking astir with their caput down." 

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Down syndrome is the astir communal chromosomal condition. 

Each year, astir 5,000 babies with Down syndrome are calved successful the U.S., oregon 1 successful each 775, according to the National Down Syndrome Society.