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Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional IndividualsLeukodystrophy

Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and... eating, vision or hearing, behavior, memory, or thought processes (NINDS, 2001). The following information on individual leukodystro- Leukodystrophy refers to a group of progressive genetic phies is from ULF (2001). Metachromatic leukodystrophy, disorders that affect the brain, spinal cord, and peripher- itself a group of disorders, is the most frequent and al nerves. Because each leukodystrophy affects a differ- described in a separate entry. ALD, affecting the adrenal ent chemical that makes up the myelin sheath or gland and white matter of the nervous system, has white matter covering nerve fibers, having one does onset from childhood to adulthood and only affects boys not increase the likelihood of contracting another (X-linked). However, neonatal ALD can affect males (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and females. The rarest leukodystrophy, Alexander [NINDS], 2001). Leukodystrophies, described by the disease, is a rapidly progressing neurological disorder United Leukodystrophy Foundation (ULF, 2001), includes affecting mainly males. CACH, characterized by the adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) and neonatal ALD, Aicardi- foamy appearance of oligodendrocytes under microscopic Gouthieres leukodystrophy, Alexander disease, childhood examination, generally has onset between 1 and 5 years of ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination age, either spontaneously or after head trauma or febrile (CACH http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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eating, vision or hearing, behavior, memory, or thought processes (NINDS, 2001). The following information on individual leukodystro- Leukodystrophy refers to a group of progressive genetic phies is from ULF (2001). Metachromatic leukodystrophy, disorders that affect the brain, spinal cord, and peripher- itself a group of disorders, is the most frequent and al nerves. Because each leukodystrophy affects a differ- described in a separate entry. ALD, affecting the adrenal ent chemical that makes up the myelin sheath or gland and white matter of the nervous system, has white matter covering nerve fibers, having one does onset from childhood to adulthood and only affects boys not increase the likelihood of contracting another (X-linked). However, neonatal ALD can affect males (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and females. The rarest leukodystrophy, Alexander [NINDS], 2001). Leukodystrophies, described by the disease, is a rapidly progressing neurological disorder United Leukodystrophy Foundation (ULF, 2001), includes affecting mainly males. CACH, characterized by the adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) and neonatal ALD, Aicardi- foamy appearance of oligodendrocytes under microscopic Gouthieres leukodystrophy, Alexander disease, childhood examination, generally has onset between 1 and 5 years of ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination age, either spontaneously or after head trauma or febrile (CACH

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