Caroline, 3 years, is a child with a developmental disorder….
Caroline, 3 years, is a child with a developmental disorder. She is developmentally delayed in motor skills, having difficulty in walking, standing and sitting. She has a limited expressive vocabulary and has significant speech problems. Caroline is easily distracted, has a short attention span, and engages in self-stimulating and compulsive behaviors. The child’s face shows significant stigmata with hypertelorism, ptosis, epicanthal folds, a broad nasal bridge, V shaped mouth, and small low-set ears rotated backward. Dr. Edwards, the geneticist, states, “Caroline has ______________ syndrome, a condition that is caused by a loss of genetic material from chromosome 11. This is a replication error that occurs during cell division, rather than an inherited condition.” This condition is called what?