Families
Parents with a Canavan Child: Orren and Seth
Orren and Seth found out they were carriers of Canavan disease when their second child, Morgan, was diagnosed at the age of 15 months. Orren and Seth talk about the impact of losing their daughter to Canavan Disease at the age of 7-1/2 and how it led them to be proponents of early and complete carrier screening for prospective parents. Video here.
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