Who visits Rett.com?

Our goal with Rett.com is to create an online “meeting place” for the worldwide Rett Syndrome Community. The community response so far has been well beyond our expectations. We have already received visits, comments, and suggestions from a host of people who are related in some way to those with Rett Syndrome. This includes:

parents
sisters
brothers
grandparents
aunts
uncles
cousins
friends
physicians
researchers
nurses
home health [...]

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What is Rett Syndrome?

Rett Syndrome is a severe neurological disease that is the most physically disabling of the autism spectrum disorders. Caused by mutations in the gene MECP2, Rett Syndrome affects primarily girls, striking at random in early childhood and destroying speech, normal movement and functional hand use. Many with Rett Syndrome become wheelchair bound; those who walk [...]

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New Rett Ramblings section

Thank you for making Rett Syndrome Magazine the fastest growing website in the Rett Syndrome Community. In just our second full month of on-line publishing we have grown significantly, now serving over 1200 individual visitors worldwide per month! 

At Rett Syndrome Magazine we are constantly looking to improve the way we bring you information, insight, [...]

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Rett Events: 3rd Annual West Michigan Rett Syndrome Research Golf Tournament

Date

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Location

The Meadows Golf Club, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan

This "must play" in Grand Rapids has played host to several NCAA events and you can see why. A "beautiful course that is well maintained" the "links-style" layout boasts a "wonderful rotation of holes" that have "a little bit of everything".

Charities [...]

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Rett Press: New Rett Syndrome fundraising idea? Tats for Rett

After 42 hours, 26 minutes and 4 seconds of tattooing, Marshall Olsen and Adam Kemp declared triumph. The friends decided they had broken the record for the world’s longest tattoo session, according to Guinness World Records. They collected donations, so far about $900, for the American Cancer Society and the International Rett Syndrome [...]

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Rett Press: Rett Syndrome Advocate and Fundraiser Lands UK Television Hosting Contract

Rett Syndrome Advocate Coleen McLoughlin has been signed up as a presenter for ITV in an exclusive two-year deal.
The fiancee of Manchester United and England footballer Wayne Rooney is to host a number of day time and peak time programmes for ITV1 and ITV2 between now and 2009. Her first project is an ITV2 series made by television company Initial. Coleen’s Real Women will see her on a mission to find naturally beautiful women for genuine high profile modelling [...]

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Rett Press: Girl with Rett Syndrome Denied A Public Education

20-year old Lindsey Ross, a young woman with Rett Syndrome is denied a Federal Court appeal to attend high [...]

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Rett Press: Autism rates rise, but so do hopes

The increase in autism cases is creating challenges for public schools across Michigan that are charged with providing a free education to all children, even if that means they have to treat a disability before a child can learn. Because insurance companies rarely cover costly therapies and programs for children with autism, the schools are often their only source of treatment. And the schools are searching for new approaches to reach [...]

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Rett Advocate: Juli Wilson Marshall: 1959 – 2007

Chicago lawyer who represented a child with Rett Syndrome for free drowns during a triathalon fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma [...]

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Rett Press: Big Bucks: Novartis focusing on rare diseases such as Rett Syndrome

Forbes Magazine reports that Novartis has compounds in preclinical tests that target Rett syndrome, a rare inherited brain [...]

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