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You Made Awareness Month Happen!

By |Sep 3, 2014|

Our top Let 'Em Know team, New Jersey Fragile X Community Support Group National Fragile X Awareness Month is a group effort. We prepare each July to unite and keep our communities informed [...]

FMR1 Gray Zone Allele: What Do We Know About It?

By |Aug 26, 2014|

This “gray zone” range was defined in part due to its likelihood of expanding into the full mutation in the next generation. Most people possess an allele that typically contains ~30 CGG repeats.

IL: Lizzie’s Open House

By |Aug 22, 2014|

Lizzie's 10th Annual Open House Date: September 20, 2014 Time: 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM Location: Geneva History Center113 S. 3rd Street Geneva, IL 60134 Hosts: Nancy Reilly Details Participating Vendors Discovery Toys [...]

IL: Lizzie's Open House

By |Aug 22, 2014|

Lizzie's 10th Annual Open House Date: September 20, 2014 Time: 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM Location: Geneva History Center113 S. 3rd Street Geneva, IL 60134 Hosts: Nancy Reilly Details Participating Vendors Discovery Toys [...]

FAQ with New NFXF CEO Tony Ferlenda

By |Aug 19, 2014|

What would you like people to know about you? I've been in nonprofit leadership roles for the last 23 years — as both a volunteer, board member, and employee. Small- to mid-sized organizations with a compelling, human services mission, like the NFXF...

News from the FORWARD Project!

By |Aug 15, 2014|

This project was funded by a CDC cooperative agreement with Dr. Ted Brown (#1U19DD000753-01). Disclaimer: The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position [...]

The NFXF Responds to Harrisburg Loss

By |Aug 4, 2014|

The National Fragile X Foundation is saddened to learn of the death of Jarrod Tutko Jr., an 8-year-old boy from Harrisburg, Penn., who was living with Fragile X syndrome. The Fragile X community mourns the [...]

My Inspiration to Spread Awareness

By |Jul 28, 2014|

Taylor was born September 6, 2003. She was perfect. She met all her milestones right on time, spoke early, and knew complicated shapes like a pentagon before she even could speak. Taylor was, however, very shy [...]

Looking Back on the 14th Conference

By |Jul 22, 2014|

When we come to this Conference, we all step out of our lives. Lives where Fragile X is a diagnosis, an abnormality that sets us apart from the norm, shoving us into a contra reality and a position of minority in our communities and even in our homes, in some cases. Yet at this Conference, our Fragile X family, our kin, our kind, our community amass in such numbers that we become the norm. For five glorious days we are what's expected; we are the center of the universe.