The Straits Times
Help pours in for siblings with rare disorder in Singapore
Bakery owner Thrina Low (in white) with the Langs – (clockwise from top left) Mr David Lang and his wife Loo Geok, their son Titus and daughter Justina – in their home.ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
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July 11, 2021
Bakery owner Thrina Low (in white) with the Langs – (clockwise from top left) Mr David Lang and his wife Loo Geok, their son Titus and daughter Justina – in their home.
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SINGAPORE - All three of Mr David Lang s children were born healthy, zipping through development milestones as they grew up.
Justina, the eldest, could name 100 objects in a picture book at the age of one. Timothy, the middle child, would try and read everything he could. Titus, the youngest, could solve a Primary 2 mathematics problem when he was in kindergarten. But as they each grew older, they started falling more frequently when running, spoke less, and had seizures.
Emma Peterka, two, from Minnetonka, Minnesota, has been on a drug called adrabetadex, which helped her regain movement iand start communicating, after being diagnosed with NPC.
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