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Southern
Illinois Multiples Support Group
This group is
a support group for families of multiples in the Southern Illinois area. They
meet monthly at Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion, IL. Visit their
web page for more information.
The Twins Foundation
It serves
twins, their families, the media, medical and social scientists and the
general public through its publications, its national Twin Registry and its
multi-media resource center.
The Illinois Organization of Mothers
of Twins Clubs
The Illinois
Organization of Mothers of Twins Club, Inc. (IOMOTC) was founded in 1962 as
an Illinois non-profit, educational, public service organization for mothers
of
twins and
higher order multiple birth children. IOMOTC provides support,
information,
and networking services to parents of twins and higher order multiples
through its
member club affiliates.
Mid-Atlantic Twin Registry
Twins and
their families were identified for the registry by using publicly available
birth records, public driver's license information, and through public and
private school records. This information was made available only for the
purpose of medical research.
Twins Magazine
Twins
Magazine is the only international publication dedicated to parents of
multiples and their unique parenting needs. It provides practical parenting
advice, informative features, touching personal accounts, the latest research
findings and developmental data specific to multiples aged birth to 6.
The MIT Twins Study
The MIT Twins
Study is a long-term study of language development in twins, headed by
graduate student Jennifer Ganger and advised by Professors Steven Pinker and
Kenneth Wexler. The goal of the project is to compare language learning in
identical and fraternal twins to determine which aspects of language and
language learning have a heritable basis.
National Twin Registry of Sri
Lanka
To initiate
the process of establishing a nation-wide twin registry by starting as a
volunteer register and working towards a population based register, to
compliment and supplement current teaching and research activities undertaken
in Sri Lanka, in the field of Social, Genetic and developmental
research.
Twin Services
Twin Services
was started by parents of twins in 1978 - to give twin families and health
and family service providers a professional resource for information, advice
and moral support to help them raise healthy, happy children.
International Society for Twin Studies
ISTS is an
international, nonpolitical, nonprofit, multidisciplinary scientific
organization. Its purpose is to further research and public education in all
fields related to twins and twin studies, for the mutual benefit of twins and
their families and of scientific research in general.
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