Month: March 2025

Birth & Beyond: Tools & Advances in Maternal & Newborn Care Conference

Clinic for Special Children’s 2025 Midwife Conference
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 | 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
at the Clinic for Special Children in Gordonville, PA

Join us for a full-day, CME-eligible conference, which will bring together midwives who work with families at risk for rare genetic disorders. Learn more about genetic testing that impacts prenatal care, genetic conditions that can affect both mother and baby, newborn screening for hearing loss, and much more. Meet with other local prenatal health professionals to discuss ways to collectively deliver the best care for pregnant women and infants.

 

 

View the full conference brochure and agenda HERE

Register below with credit card or you can register in-person the morning of the conference with cash or check!

For additional questions about our conference, please contact:
Kelly Woodson, Events Manager
E-mail: events@clinicforspecialchildren.org
Phone: 717-687-9407

From auctions to online fundraisers to a community dinner, we hope that you can join us for a 2025 Clinic for Special Children event!

All events benefit the Clinic’s mission of providing accessible, affordable, and compassionate care to children and adults with rare genetic disorders.

Click HERE or on the image below to download our 2025 events calendar!

 

Our 2024 Annual Report is here!

This year’s report is all about our year of moving to our new facility and how we’ve ‘replanted’ in our new space in Gordonville, PA.

Learn more about our year of change, what’s on the horizon for our work, and how the building enables us to provide even better care for families.

Read the 2024 Annual Report HERE.

In a published paper released today in Science Translational Medicine, Clinic for Special Children researchers and scientists from the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School developed a dual-function gene replacement therapy that demonstrated restored metabolic activity in mice and a cow model of the two common genetic forms of maple syrup urine disease.

 

Read the paper HERE

Read the press release HERE