Some have
significant feeding difficulties and have trouble swallowing or breathing while eating, she added.
This report expands the phenotype of older patients with BRPS; common emerging features include severe intellectual disability (11/12), poor / absent speech (12/12), autistic traits (9/12), distinct face (arched eyebrows, prominent forehead, high - arched palate, hypertelorism and downslanting palpebral fissures), (9/12), hypotonia (11/12) and
significant feeding difficulties (9/12) when young.
Not exact matches
Moreover, they were clinically distinct from Bohring - Opitz syndrome, with features including severe
feeding difficulties, failure to thrive, and neurologic abnormalities with
significant developmental delay.
Students with severe to profound general learning disabilities exhibit a wide and diverse range of characteristics, including a dependence on others to satisfy basic needs such as
feeding and toileting,
difficulties in mobility, problems with generalising skills from one situation to another,
significant delays in reaching developmental milestones and
significant speech and / or communication
difficulties.