Heather: Prenatal testing is not always a search and destroy mission for parents. Sometimes they just want to know what’s coming down the pike.

Mary: Was he the one who was able to show that signing infants develop language in exactly the same sequence as speaking children — babbling to syllables to words to phrases to sentences to paragraphs? I’ve seen some work on that and it’s fascinating.

John: http://www.ipetitions.com/peti tion/autismPETA/index.html

Kathy Ratkiewicz: Just as some people are amazed that a parent of a child with Down syndrome would vote for McCain and Palin simply because of Trig Palin, I am amazed that parents are expected to vote for Obama simply because of his promises on disability issues. I am the parent of a child with...

Scott: This is both sad and scary. It’s ironic that Stanford has received a great deal of money for Down syndrome research. I hope this isn’t how they spent it.