Tip of the Week: PWS Awareness Month (Week 4)

In honor of Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month, we’re sharing a “Tip of the Day” on social media throughout the month of May. Here are this week’s tips: People with PWS often have co-occurring mental health diagnoses. Be sure that the psychiatrist prescribing medication is knowledgeable about the syndrome. Individuals with PWS typically enter puberty later…

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TIP of the WEEK: PWS Awareness Month

During the month of May we formally celebrate the extraordinary people in our lives that live with PWS. Use the last few days of this month to spread awareness and highlight the struggles, accomplishments, and truly unique aspects of the people living every day with a syndrome that so few know about. Interesting Facts about…

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TIP of the WEEK: PWS Awareness Month

During the month of May we formally celebrate the extraordinary people in our lives that live with PWS. Use this month to spread awareness and highlight the struggles, accomplishments, and truly unique aspects of the people living every day with a syndrome that so few know about.  Interesting Facts about PWS: 1.) People with PWS…

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TIP of the WEEK: PWS Awareness Month

During the month of May we formally celebrate the extraordinary people in our lives that live with PWS. Use this month to spread awareness and highlight the struggles, accomplishments, and truly unique aspects of the people living every day with a syndrome that so few know about.  Interesting Facts about PWS: 1.)    People with PWS…

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Patrice Carroll and Latham Centers’ Informational PWS Videos: 1 of 4

Click image to view video Patrice Carroll, Latham Centers’ Manager of PWS Services, is recognized worldwide for her expertise in Prader-Willi Syndrome care. Today marks the last day of National PWS Awareness Month and we are so happy to be part of this amazing PWS community. Patrice has filmed four videos which include Fostering Positive…

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Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month Fact of the Day

May is Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month. At Latham, we take this month to focus on community awareness. This is our time to spread the word and teach our communities about the needs of our kids and adults.  PWS Fact: Mothers of children with PWS are some of the strongest, most tenacious and hopeful people that…

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Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month Fact of the Day

  May is Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month. At Latham, we take this month to focus on community awareness. This is our time to spread the word and teach our communities about the needs of our kids and adults.  PWS Fact:  People with PWS have a high pain tolerance. Injuries can go undetected because their threshold…

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TIP of the WEEK: PWS Awareness Month

To those of us in the PWS community spreading awareness happens everyday. At each doctors appointment, IEP, sometimes even a trip to the store ends up spreading more awareness than we care to spread! But for one month each year we get to unabashedly talk about the syndrome that we love to everyone and anyone…

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Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month Fact of the Day

May is Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month. At Latham, we take this month to focus on community awareness. This is our time to spread the word and teach our communities about the needs of our kids and adults. Throughout the month, Patrice Carroll, our PWS specialist, will be posting a different fact.  PWS Fact: PWS is a…

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