Down Syndrome

Down Syndrome

Comparison of a physiognomy of a male who began treatment late at the age 9 1/2 (Before), and his condition at the age 10 1/2 (After).
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7 years old		8 years old


9 years old		10 years old

The pictures show the transformation from an uncontrolled mimicry, to a glassy stare, to a sociable facial expression

Progress of expressive (physiognomic) changes of a Down syndrome child


Before a) at 1 year of age	During b) at two years of age	After c)at four years of age

Highly stigmatized Down syndrome girl from a high Alpine valley who, at 2.5 years of age,


was unable to speak; was restless, worrisome, and unmanageable	six months after the beginning of treatment, the child already maintains eye contact and pays attention	After four years of treatment – at 6 1/2 years of age, and after attending a normal kindergarten, the child speaks German and Italian, is enrolled in primary school on a trial basis.

Progress of a Down syndrome boy at:


Before 1 1/1 years of age	During at three years of age	After at nine years of age

Down syndrome boy with chronic infections


at the beginning of treatment		five months later

Down syndrome boy with chronic infections


Before highly stigmatized facial expression		After considerable normalization of facial expression after five years of treatment

Down syndrome girl at seven months of age before treatment


Before		After after 4.5 years of treatment

Photographs of a Down syndrome boy between two and seven years of age (a-f) from the family album

Characteristic change of appearance, mimicry, and pigmentation, of four Down syndrome children under treatment from age two to eight

Physiognomy and appearance (phenotype) of Down syndrome children treated from ages five to fourteen

Facial expression and appearance of Down syndrome children under treatment since one year of age

Representative cross-section of the appearance of treated Down syndrome boys from age four to fourteen


Marcus and his younger sister.		The siblings in a sleeping bag




Play is hard work for the small boy. Marcus “works” with educational toys (coordinating, assigning).