Project Overview
In order to raise awareness about this disorder, information has to be provided and readily available to areas in which Turner Syndrome has the highest impact. Targeting middle and high school campuses nationwide the "Turner on Wheels" is a traveling campaign filled with women both afflicted and affected with Turner's syndrome. The campaign will offer support, resources, and be a wealth of information for society to be more accepting of this disorder. They will visit campuses, hold seminars, and interact personally with students and faculty alike to ensure that a supportive net is created and can be maintained long after the group is gone.
Many girls with Turner Syndrome have short statures and often lack sexual development, so they don't possess breasts or wider hips as most girls do once they hit puberty. This causes girls with this disorder to feel different from their peer groups in middle and high schools because they don't look like girl's their age. This can cause low self-esteem, and more loner-type social personalities. From their peers they can receive harsh teasing about their appearance because in addition to being short they can also have a "webbed" neck, or extra folds of skin extending from the tops of the shoulders to the sides of the neck, or edema (abnormal fluid build-up) of the hands and feet. Every girl deserves to feel beautiful in her skin, whether short in stature or large in bust. The importance of the campaign comes from restoring a girl's confidence through educating her and those around her.
Many girls with Turner Syndrome have short statures and often lack sexual development, so they don't possess breasts or wider hips as most girls do once they hit puberty. This causes girls with this disorder to feel different from their peer groups in middle and high schools because they don't look like girl's their age. This can cause low self-esteem, and more loner-type social personalities. From their peers they can receive harsh teasing about their appearance because in addition to being short they can also have a "webbed" neck, or extra folds of skin extending from the tops of the shoulders to the sides of the neck, or edema (abnormal fluid build-up) of the hands and feet. Every girl deserves to feel beautiful in her skin, whether short in stature or large in bust. The importance of the campaign comes from restoring a girl's confidence through educating her and those around her.