TAMPA (BLOOM) – Moebius Syndrome is a rare neurological condition that affects the facial muscles, causing difficulty ... Physical therapy: Physical therapy can help improve facial muscle ...

Addie receives intense physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and feeding therapies. She wears glasses and a hearing aid and uses an iPhone paired with the Proloquo4Text app voice-to-text ...

Though there’s no cure for Moebius syndrome, physical and speech therapy can help improve motor skills. It took Eva longer to learn to walk than other children — and she can speak, ...

Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day is January 24. I'm a psychology professor who has and studies Moebius syndrome. Here are seven reasons why people with Moebius syndrome like myself seek ...

Physical and speech therapy may be helpful for helping a child with Moebius syndrome catch up with the developmental milestones and correct musculo-skeletal abnormalities.

Matilyn Branch is a 6-year-old who can't smile. She has a condition known as Moebius syndrome, a disorder characterized by facial muscle paralysis or paresis (muscle weakness) and the inability to … ...

Born and raised in New Zealand, Clement has Moebius syndrome, a neurological disease that affects one child out of every 50,000 to 500,000 born, research shows. Moebius occurs when a baby’s ...

The young man was not asking out of curiosity; he, too, felt the stares of someone with an obvious physical difference. It was a question often addressed at the biannual Moebius Syndrome ...

Children with Moebius Syndrome can also benefit from physical and speech therapy to improve their gross motor skills and coordination, and to gain better control over speaking and eating.

Carol Hayton, from Barrow, Cumbria, was watching a BBC Three documentary series Underage and Pregnant when she saw a child demonstrating the same symptoms as her two-year-old grandson Declan ...

Faculty, students and families of the Half Hallow Hills Central School District came together on Friday, decked out in all purple to celebrate Addison Garvey, who has Moebius Syndrome.

Although the physical symptoms of Moebius may be challenging to navigate at first, once parents and people with Moebius syndrome develop expertise, many feel the remaining challenges are social in ...