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Children with SCD demonstrate higher rates of special education services and grade retention relative to African American peers. Overall, children with SCD demonstrate poorer academic attainment relative to healthy, African American peers highlighting the need for increased focus on special education services to address school performance issues within this population.

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We present the most extensive neuropsychological and language assessment yet reported of patients diagnosed with Floating-Harbor Syndrome (FHS), a rare genetic condition characterized by dysmorphid figures, short stature, and speech-onset delay. This is also the second reported occurrence of both a mother and daughter with FHS. Whereas the child demonstrated gross deficits in verbal expression, speech and language problems were largely ameliorated in the mother. Neuropsychological assessment also revealed a strikingly similar pattern of cognitive problems additional to language dysfunction, including difficulties with attention, mathematical, and visuospatial abilities. A mood disorder continued to be quite disabling for the mother.