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Support Groups

This page contains links to other World Wide Web sites with information about support groups for parents affected by a birth defect. We hope you find these sites helpful, but please remember we do not control or endorse the information presented on these Web sites, nor do these sites endorse the information contained here.

Alliance of Genetic Support Groups

National Down Syndrome Congress

1370 Center Drive, Suite 102

Atlanta, GA 30338

Toll Free: 800-232-NDSC (6372)

Local: 770-604-9500

Fax: 770-604-9898

E-Mail: info@ndsccenter.org

David Tolleson, Executive Director

National Down Syndrome Society

666 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
1-800-221-4602 or (212) 460-9330

National Organization for Rare Disorders

P.O. Box 8923
New Fairfield, Connecticut 06812
203-746-6518

S.O.F.T. (Support Organization for Trisomy 18, 13, and Related Disorders)

The Compassionate Friends

P.O. Box 1347
Oak Brook, Illinois 60521
708-990-0810

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